Scrabble quotes

The other day I was playing Scrabble. I saw that I could close the space in D-E- -Y. I had an N and an F. Which do you think I chose? What was the word I made?
-- Amy Hempel

#Thinking #Space #Scrabble
Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
-- Duke Ellington

#Music #Missing #Scrabble
Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.
-- Eddie Izzard

#Kids #Scrabble #Nazi
Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. This is true, they proved this one. The word dyslexia was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.
-- Eddie Izzard

#Funny #Kids #Scrabble
Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's.
-- Robert Breault

#Ideas #Scrabble #Letters
I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.
-- Saffron Burrows

#Player #Chess #Scrabble
We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare." "Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's great." "Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all put words like 'iridiums'. And I put 'pig'.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Pigs #Scrabble #Genius
I'm just a big homebody and love word games like Scrabble and Boggle.
-- Sung-Hi Lee

#Games #And Love #Scrabble

Learn to obey before you command.
It's all about the journey, not the outcome.
Death is dreadfully personal, terribly important to oneself, and so unimportant to the rest of the world.
Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.
The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.
It's impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don't know where you're starting from.
All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.
You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.
Looking back, it's funny how the lighter family-friendly version of these classic Universal movie monsters that were satirized in The Munsters seduced me like a gateway drug into the genre.
Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.