Parlor Games Quotes:

They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable names In science, art and parlor games. But I, despite expert advice, Keep doing things I think are nice, And though to good I never come Inseparable my nose and thumb.

- Dorothy Parker

source: Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

topic: Art, Nice, Thinking, Parlor Games

You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches

- Red Auerbach

topic: Basketball, Player, Winning, Parlor Games, Playoff Games

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

- Charles Fort

source: Charles Fort (2014). “New Lands”, p.60, Baen Publishing Enterprises

topic: Cards, World, Parlor, Playing Cards, Parlor Games

We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.

- Eugene Kennedy

topic: Games, Growth, Disaster, Parlor, Parlor Games

Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Games, Miracle, Energy, Matter And Energy, Parlor

One day, I stopped hating. I ceased all meaningless activity. I completed the circle. I Set my sights straight. Like an Arrow I flew. I stopped acting. I got tired of playing with you. Random violence and destruction Because my reason for living, my out, My excuse. What is your excuse? Destruction. Without hate, without fear, Without judgement. I am no better Than you. No-one knows this better Than I do. I just got tired of playing Parlor Games.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Hate, Tired, Arrows, Parlor Games, Random Violence

I think [James] Joyce sometimes enjoyed misleading his readers. He said to me that history was like that parlor game where someone whispers something to the person next to him, who repeats it not very distinctly to the next person, and so on until, by the time the last person hears it, it comes out completely transformed. Of course, as he explained to me, the meaning in Finnegans Wake is obscure because it is a 'nightpiece.' I think, too, that, like the author's sight, the work is often blurred.

- Sylvia Beach

topic: Thinking, Sight, Games, Parlor, Parlor Games