Bookkeepers Quote by Jesse Lauriston Livermore

But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of homo sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained in this…

— Lodewijk Prins

Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very…

— Henry Fielding

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!

— John Ciardi

“Anyone else who misspent their largely-sexless adolescence playing role playing games would be aware that games nights are often accompanied by peculiar states of…

— Gordon White

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes…

— John Carmack

Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you…

— George Eliot

If you ask me, the hypothetical zenith of gaming technology is direct neural interface - no body to hamper you and your brain is…

— Yahtzee Croshaw

It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play…

— Beau Willimon

What happens in a play is determined to a certain extent by what I thought might be interesting to have happen before I invented…

— Edward Albee

There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the…

— Alistair Cooke

I think play must have been invented so we wouldn't go mad thinking about certain things.

— Audrey Niffenegger