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  • I have an RSS reader, Feeddler. I mostly subscribe to board game blogs - they have reviews of new games and discussions about trends. It's straight-up dork talk.

    Games   Boards   Trends  
  • If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

    FaceBook post by Derek Jeter from Aug 29, 2012
  • The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient

    Keys   Police   Criminals  
  • Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

  • You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really "starting over." More like "continuing without.

    Mitch Albom (2013). “The First Phone Call From Heaven: A Novel”, p.11, Harper Collins
  • It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

    Winning   Men   Games  
    1919 Not That It Matters.
  • I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.

    Games   Boards   Checkers  
  • Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits.

  • I love card games, and I've always loved board games and stuff like that as a kid, and I think it's that part of your brain that's engaged in con movies. It's like this 'Who's outsmarting whom?'

    Kids   Thinking   Games  
    "John C. Reilly for “Criminal”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. September 7, 2004.
  • Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.

    Children   Games   Play  
    Anna Quindlen (2012). “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life”, p.121, Random House
  • One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

  • Not all activities are equal... Those that involve genuine concentration - studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing - are associated with a lower risk for dementia.

    Reading   Health   Games  
  • mostly we've had to found ways to amuse ourselves." "Really?" Valkyrie asked. "Like what?" Plight's smile faded. "Like human sacrifice." He grabbed one arm and Lenka grabbed the other and Valkyrie cried out. Then they both let go. laughing. "Naw," Plight said, we just play board games." ..."she fell for it!" gasped Lenka. "She fell for the human sacrifice bit!

  • Most innovative little board game since Chess.

    Games   Boards   Littles  
  • I'm one of six children. I'd love to sound educated and say I dive into a good book when I'm there, but in truth, I spend time with the kids playing cards, ping-pong, and board games.

    Children   Book   Kids  
    Source: www.marieclaire.com
  • Three times a year, theres Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial Day weekends. You go and take a look at the new board games and meet a couple of board game designers, and you can check out games you dont own from the library and then return them.

  • The amount of times my wife has rolled her eyes at board games is impossible to count.

    Eye   Games   Wife  
  • You don't have to be really good anymore to get good results. What's happening with Chess is that it's gradually losing its place as the par excellence of intellectual activity. Smart people in search of a challenging board game might try a game called Go.

    Smart   Games   People  
  • I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

    Funny   Humor   Thinking  
  • Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentration—studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing—are associated with a lower risk for dementia. Dancing, which requires learning new moves, is both physically and mentally challenging and requires much concentration. Less intense activities, such as bowling, babysitting, and golfing, are not associated with a reduced incidence of Alzheimer’s. (254)

    Moving   Reading   Games  
    Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.254, Penguin
  • The first movie I literally ever made in my life was about two guys playing Stratego with each other. I had all my friends dressing up like the military characters in the game. So 'Battleship' is really my second board game turned movie!

  • It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

    Book   Character   Games  
  • Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isnt ruined if I lose. Im always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, thats something thats nice about maturing.

  • I never go easy on kids when I play board games. The sooner they learn what the consequence of entering a competition is, the better. If they win, I punch them in the face like any adult.

    Kids   Winning   Games  
  • People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.

    Love Life   Games   Play  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Oftentimes, even as a little kid, I would get up before anyone else. My brother would still be sleeping, my mom would still be sleeping, so I would literally play 'Monopoly' by myself. I would play board games; I would do things by myself.

    Mom   Brother   Sleep  
    Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. May 12, 2011.
  • I spent the day today at Brighton Beach, walking around. It's a Russian/Jewish neighborhood. And I was in a store and I saw a board game called 'Let My People Go,' based on the Jews' exodus from Egypt. I was like, 'Too soon.

    Beach   Games   Egypt  
  • I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

    "This Ames is True". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 21, 2011.
  • You write a spec, and you pour your heart and soul and life into a spec, and you think that spec is the movie that's going to sell and get made... I've never heard of anybody that happened to. What happens is, you write a spec, people get it, they see your writing, they see you're good, they bring you into their office and they say, "Boy, that spec was really good - we'll never make that in a million years. We have rights to the board game of Monopoly. What do you think about a Monopoly movie?".

    Source: www.gq.com
  • The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces.

    Games   Perfect   Boards  
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