Game Is Afoot Quotes

#1. When is a game not a game? When the game is afoot.

Evelyn Cullet

#2. The game is afoot.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#3. Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#4. The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.

Morris Mandel

#5. It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?

Anne Rice

#6. My family aren't performers. They're just normal people. They don't understand this entertainment world. They just think it's mental. They have no idea what I'm doing in America.

Jay Ryan

#7. THE AIR IN THE ROOM TASTES STERILE. THE LINGERING scent of bleach is mixing with the fresh white paint on the walls, and I wish my teacher would open the window to let in a breeze. But we're on the third floor so the pane is sealed shut - just in case anyone gets the urge to jump. I

Suzanne Young

#8. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot;
Follow your spirit: and upon this charge,
Cry - God for Harry! England and Saint George!

William Shakespeare

#9. Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.

Big Sean

#10. I was too busy to address the problem.

Anonymous

#11. My mother always taught me to be strong and to never be a victim. Never make excuses. Never expect anyone else to provide for me things I know I can provide for myself.

Beyonce Knowles

#12. As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I've been had.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#13. No one except Sherlock Holmes thought he should be going anywhere, least of all his long-suffering doctor, but the game was afoot.

Emma Jane Holloway

#14. I've been to strip clubs where the dancers have these whole routines that they create just for the wow factor and to say, 'Look how strong and physically fit I am.' Most women couldn't do it, and it's not necessarily sexual. It's just a performance.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

#15. From all those created in the image of God there is something to be received, and to them something to be given.

Colin Gunton

#16. The game's afoot, Watson, or quite possibly thirteen inches

Ian Jarvis

#17. Quickly, Watson, the game's afoot, I said, but Deborah was not in a literary mood.

Jeff Lindsay

#18. He new it frustrated her that he had dehydrated parts of his heart so thoroughly, no amount of drenching love and affection could revive them.

Suanne Laqueur

#19. I still lack to a considerable degree that naturally superior kind of manner that I would dearly like to possess.

Heinrich Himmler

#20. One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.

Jeanette Winterson

#21. Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips.

Tupac Shakur

#22. As the sociologist Mitchell L. Stevens has put it, "affluent families fashion an entire way of life organized around the production of measurable virtue in children." Measurable, here, means capable of showing up on a college application. We are not teaching to the test; we're living to it.

William Deresiewicz