Gygax Games Quotes

#1. The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.

Nelson Algren

#2. We had fun just messing around and being awkward like they would be awkward. There's always that stage in a friendship when you wonder whether it could be more.

Emma Watson

#3. You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he's coming from because he says rappers can't act.

Anthony Anderson

#4. Role-playing games are contests in which the players usually cooperate as a group to achieve a common goal rather than compete to eliminate one another from play ... Role games ... bring players together in a mutual effort ...

Gary Gygax

#5. Never ask advice from someone who has something at stake or something to lose from your decision. The more objective the person is the greater value you should place on the input.

David J. Lieberman

#6. Games give you a chance to excel ...

Gary Gygax

#7. Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game.

Gary Gygax

#8. The thing that Von Neumann had, which I've noticed that other geniuses have, is the ability to pick out, in a particular problem, the one crucial thing that's important.

Walter Isaacson

#9. The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.

Gary Gygax

#10. I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.

Nicholas Sparks

#11. Is that what you think I am? All this time, and you still haven't sorted it out? Why am I surprised? You didn't notice me when we were on the Jana. You couldn't even remember my name back then, so why should I expect you to understand - to see me for what I am now!

Susan Dennard

#12. I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else.

Gary Gygax

#13. Dear 2600: Please forgive my last email to your magazine. I was drunk at the time.

Emmanuel Goldstein

#14. Senator Joe Biden is pretty clean and articulate for a white guy.

Barack Obama

#15. Over time, you'll find that the more you trust your intuition and allow it to set your direction, the more you build that trust. Develop a habit of continually checking in with your intuition by asking yourself: Does this feel right to me?

Lauren Mackler

#16. Life is made up of strange coincidences," said Thorndyke. "Nobody but a reviewer of novels is ever really surprised at a coincidence.

R. Austin Freeman

#17. My grandmother, when she was young, would've walked past shops where some folks had out a sign that said, 'No Mexicans or dogs allowed.'

Julian Castro

#18. Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

Blaise Pascal

#19. The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

Tennessee Williams

#20. My Valentine's playlist ... you're gonna have to play some Ginuwine. You're gonna have to play some 112. You're gonna have to play some Confession - Usher's - back in the day. You know, a little bit of Prince Royce there, too.

Prince Royce

#21. Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV rather than getting dressed up and going out to see a live play. In the same way, the computer is a more immediately accessible way to play games.

Gary Gygax

#22. Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises.

Gary Gygax