Gamemakers Quotes

#1. Yes, they have to have a victor. Without a victor, the whole thing would blow up in the Gamemakers' faces. They'd have failed the Capitol. Might possibly even be executed, slowly and painfully, while the cameras broadcast it to every screen in the country.

Suzanne Collins

#2. It's the final word in camouflage. Forget chucking weights around. Peeta should have gone into his private session with the Gamemakers and painted himself into a tree. Or a boulder. Or a muddy bank full of weeds.

Suzanne Collins

#3. No viewer could turn away from the show now. From the Gamemakers' point of view, this is the final word in entertainment.

Suzanne Collins

#4. But now we are a mob. Man does not stand in awe of man, nor is his genius admonished to stay at home, to put itself in communication with the internal ocean, but it goes abroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of other men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. People always want to pin yesterday's news on you, as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future, what you're doing today.

Corey Feldman

#6. Pleased to meet you, Grandma,' I said.

Jeannette Walls

#7. When you steal a book, you steal from the world. the Library propaganda said

Rachel Caine

#8. When I first came to L.A., I worked at the Magic Castle, and it was so much fun. But the best part of magic for me these days is not having to do it for a living. It's being able to pull a trick out when people least expect it, when they don't know that you do magic.

Steve Valentine

#9. I've never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple - gay or straight - should be able to get married.

Al Franken

#10. Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.

Mikhail Naimy

#11. To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, surely, must be more beneficial to mankind.

Fanny Burney

#12. Man is a biped without feathers.

Plato

#13. I think the sentiment has not entirely shifted away from the belief that technology will continue to do well. But the believers are getting more and more worried about their beliefs.

Kate Warne

#14. Yes." Brett smiled and I cringed at his omission of 'ma'am.' The word was a Southern requirement, a verbal side dish that must accompany every course. It didn't matter if the person addressed was six years old. Or twenty. Or ninety. In the South, we said 'please' and 'thank you,' 'sir,' and 'ma'am.

Alessandra Torre

#15. I made one decision in my life based on money and I swore I would never do it again.

Billy Beane

#16. Play with passion and heart. If you don't carry passion into sport - or into any job for that matter - you won't succeed.

Phil Esposito

#17. A screaming comes across the sky.

Thomas Pynchon