Board Games Quotes:

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.

- Anna Friel

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Love Life, Games, Play, Board Games

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

- Brian K. Vaughan

topic: Art, Children, Book, Board Games, High Art

The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces.

- Robert Breault

topic: Games, Perfect, Pieces, Perfect Family, Board Games

Maybe life is a board game, but I never get to roll the dice.

- Tim Wynne-Jones

topic: Games, Dice, Boards, Board Games

I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

- Steven Wright

topic: Funny, Thinking, Games, Board Games, Funny Business

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

- Anatoly Karpov

topic: Sports, Art, Chess, Playing Chess, Board Games

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.

- Norman Doidge

topic: Reading, Health, Games, Babysitting, Dementia

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.

- Zach Braff

topic: Kids, Winning, Games, Board Games

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

- Derek Jeter

topic: Inspiring, Success, Baseball, Jeopardy, Playing Baseball

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?'

- John C. Reilly

topic: Kids, Thinking, Games, Board Games

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.

- A. A. Milne

source: 1919 Not That It Matters.

topic: Winning, Chess, Impossible, Board Games

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

- Rich Sommer

topic: Eye, Games, Wife, Board Games

When a sculptor creates a sculpture, a writer writes a novel, or a painter paints a motif on a canvas, he needs talent and expertise. But to be successful in his endeavor, he also needs to have the passionate feeling that he wants, at all costs, to create a work of art which, in his head, constantly demands to be accomplished. The same also applies to developing board games or card games.

- Klaus Teuber

topic: Art, Writing, Successful, Board Games

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.

- Will Ferrell

source: Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. May 12, 2011.

topic: Mom, Brother, Sleep, Board Games

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

topic: Losing A Loved One, Games, Starting Over, Board Games

Making a movie in Hollywood is a bit like playing a board game, where you have to throw a six to start.

- Nigel Cole

topic: Games, Six, Hollywood, Board Games

I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.

- Chelsea Clinton

topic: Games, Boards, Checkers, Backgammon, Board Games

Most innovative little board game since Chess.

- Michael A. Stackpole

topic: Games, Boards, Littles, Board Games

Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Children, Games, Play, Board Games

The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient

- Aron Nimzowitsch

topic: Keys, Police, Criminals, Chess Pawns, Endgame

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.

- Aaron Staton

topic: Basketball, Nice, Winning, Rematches, Board Games

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.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Inspirational, Mean, Buddhism, Board Games

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.

- Hans Berliner

topic: Smart, Games, People, Board Games

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.

- Kate Spade

source: Source: www.marieclaire.com

topic: Children, Book, Kids, Ping Pong, Playing Cards

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.

- Eugene Mirman

topic: Beach, Games, Egypt, Board Games, Brighton

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.

- Alan Moore

topic: Book, Character, Games, Merchandise, Board Games

One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

- Buzz Bissinger

topic: Baseball, Inspiration, Games, Board Games

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!

- Peter Berg

topic: Military, Character, Games, Board Games, Two Guys

All musical talent is absent in me, to the point of being unable to play board games that require you to hum a tune while others guess what it is, since all my humming sounds the same. Musical instruments have always seemed like alien artifacts to me, even as I really admire anyone who can play one.

- Jeff VanderMeer

source: Source: www.esquire.com

topic: Games, Play, Musical, Musical Talent, Board Games

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?".

- Robert Ben Garant

source: Source: www.gq.com

topic: Heart, Writing, Boys, Specs, Board Games

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.

- Rich Sommer

topic: Games, Trends, Boards, Dork, Board Games

Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And unless you translate a mythical story, or a doctrine out of the church, into practical action, it just remains incomprehensible. Rather like the rules of a board game which seem very sort of dull and complicated and incomprehensible until you pick up the dice and start to play, when everything falls into place.

- Karen Armstrong

source: Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

topic: Believe, Fall, Games, Board Games, Everything Falls Into Place

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.

- Rich Sommer

topic: Memorial Day, Couple, Weekend, Memorial Day Weekend, Board 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!

- Derek Landy

topic: Letting Go, Sacrifice, Games, Board Games

The days of my youth I remember as nearly always in need of explanation, and not as much fun as advertised in the promotions for board games and breakfast cereal.

- Lewis H. Lapham

topic: Fun, Cereal, Games, Board Games, Breakfast Cereal

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)

- Norman Doidge

source: Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.254, Penguin

topic: Moving, Reading, Games, Incidence, Babysitting

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.

- Jonathan Ames

topic: Children, Adventure, Games, Board Games

Oh, I’m nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I’m nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I’m working on right now. It’s a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it’s going to be fun.

- Billy Campbell

source: "Q&A – Billy Campbell (Darren Richmond)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. April 2012.

topic: Graphic Novels, Board Games, Science Fiction And Fantasy, Napoleonic, Naval Warfare