Quotes About Backgammon

#1. The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Douglas William Jerrold

#2. Three things refuse to obey my will: the waters of the Kamo River, the fall of the backgammon dice, and the monks of the Enryakuji Temple.

Shirakawa

#3. I thought you seemed like someone who might enjoy backgammon, said the kid, gravely mistaken.

Michael Chabon

#4. I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

Zoe Kazan

#5. Even if I play backgammon with my coach, I hate to lose. I won't talk to him for, like, an hour. So imagine how it feels when you lose at tennis. That makes me determined not to lose because I hate it so much. Even at a set down and match point, I always believe I can come back.

Ana Ivanovic

#6. I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.

Chelsea Clinton

#7. Had (President) Kennedy turned to his advisers and wailed, "What can we beat the Russians at?" and if someone had cried "Backgammon!" at that point, Apollo would never have happened.

Andrew Smith

#8. The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.

Kate Hudson

#9. She was handed more personality than other mortals, and chemically fertilized in a glasshouse - now her bionic strength allows her to teleport platters of watercress sandwiches from the kitchen to the library, where she's beating her friends at backgammon.

Jardine Libaire

#10. Those who don't fight evil hate those who do; and those who don't fight real evils make up little evils

Dennis Prager

#11. You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life & Times of Willie Donaldson.

Jay Nordlinger

#12. Marriage is becoming sort of fake. It's almost like a handbag. Everybody wants the newest, greatest and latest. It becomes an event, and it's definitely a status symbol in our society. I'm not saying it shouldn't be; it absolutely should be - but you shouldn't be focusing on that.

Rob Lowe

#13. One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there.

Robert Rauschenberg

#14. I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.

J.D. Salinger

#15. As President, I will not be the last to know what is going on in my command.

John F. Kerry

#16. Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed us tried, with such unfortunate results, to arrive at theoretically.

Georges Braque

#17. It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.

Seneca The Younger

#18. There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

Mark Twain

#19. So while you're trying to improvise, you're also trying to puppeteer, you're doing everything that you need to do to perform a puppet in our style, for a camera.

Brian Henson

#20. Look, I am living. On what? Neither
childhood nor future
lessens ... Superabundant existence
wells in my heart.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#21. Leave the door to happiness always ajar;
The key to that door lies in our hearts
Let happiness just sneak in!

Balroop Singh

#22. In the hurdles you have ten opportunities to improve; that's what's so cool about it.

Ron Bramlett

#23. Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

Nikita Khrushchev