Bogost Play Quotes

#1. The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.

Francois Rabelais

#2. Play isn't doing what we want, but doing what we can with the materials we find along the way.

Ian Bogost

#3. I'm not going to put my lot in with economists.

Hillary Clinton

#4. A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#5. If you do talk dirty, make sure that you enunciate because there's nothing more embarrassing than having to repeat yourself.

Chelsea Handler

#6. Normally, when you're working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.

Romola Garai

#7. We sat and kissed and kissed until our lips were bloody. I could have gone on kissing her for a year.

Ryan O'Neal

#8. Right now I feel like playing as long as I can, As long as my body will allow me to play I'm going to continue to play.

Julius Peppers

#9. Receiving, gratitude, and generosity all grow together.

Mark V. Ewert

#10. The moon ... is a mad woman holding up her dress So that her white belly shines. Haughty, Impregnable, Ridiculous, Silent and white as a debauched queen.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#11. A true messenger lives a burdened life. If he is the Lord's vessel, he carries in his heart a burden for souls none can share but those who know it firsthand.

Billy Graham

#12. There are a lot of good speakers nowadays, but very few good teachers.

D.R. Silva

#13. By manipulating the physical configuration of [any situation], you make it produce a subset of the infinite pattern of [possibilities]. And even if you don't know how to play [above situation], you can still play with it.

Ian Bogost

#14. Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising.

Leo Burnett

#15. My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing.

Mort Sahl

#16. Pete couldn't believe how sanctimonious somebody could be just because they'd once had a soldering iron stuck up their arse.

Alexei Sayle

#17. Hummingbirds can't walk.

Na

#18. My daughter showed us the key: misery gives way to fun when you take an object, event, situation, or scenario that wasn't designed for you, that isn't invested in you, that isn't concerned in the slightest for your experience of it, and then treat it as if it were. ...this is what play means.

Ian Bogost