Quotes About Pinball

#1. The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

Heinz R. Pagels

#2. The only colors I could see were the vibrant primary hues of the pinball machine, where a cartoon spacewoman with big conical breasts straddled the earth in a formfitting blue space suit and thigh-high yellow boots. Behind her, a big red dildo-shaped spaceship was just blasting off for the moon.

Sue Grafton

#3. I think we can all agree that this deaf elf sure plays a mean pinball.

Rick Riordan

#4. The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when God, cheating, tries to win free games.

Tom Robbins

#5. I just always loved pinball.

Kevin Dillon

#6. I am the pinball geek of the band, probably of the nation of Canada. I've been a pinball fan my whole life. I started collecting machines in the late '90s.

Ed Robertson

#7. Everyone's existence is filled with special stories. But my life is my story; an amazing journey, a bouncing steel ball in a living pinball machine flying through the molecules and empty spaces of primal experience.

Gerasimos I. Kambites

#8. Following Simon's adventures is like being the pinball in an especially antic game, but it's well worth the wear and tear.

Charlaine Harris

#9. The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation.

Rex Hunt

#10. I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

Emile Hirsch

#11. My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

Rainn Wilson

#12. I'm dating myself by saying this, but I was the test audience for 'Space Invaders.' I remember when that was the first game that wasn't a pinball game. I spent a lot of money on 'Space Invaders,' in the form of quarters, of course.

John C. Reilly

#13. I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball.

Nolan Bushnell

#14. Giving advice is like playing pinball: only by pushing and pulling can you encourage the ball to go in a new direction and increase your score. But too much pushing and pulling can cause a tilt and stop the game.

Chip R. Bell

#15. There is a slight difference between collecting fifty wine labels and collecting fifty pinball machines.

Haruki Murakami

#16. I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place ...

Anne Lamott

#17. It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

Pete Townshend

#18. That's when I gave up pinball. When the times comes, everybody gives up pinball. Nothing more to it.

Haruki Murakami

#19. I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great.

Matt Groening

#20. Cliche but accurate: Kick a football, then ask it whether it meant to fly. All action demands an equal and opposite reaction. You can't blame an object battered by inertial forces; you can't blame me, bouncing through the pinball machine of life.

Robin Wasserman

#21. Today's customer journey is an iterative, complex, pinball of touchpoints.

David Louis Edelman

#22. Whatever adults don't understand, because they didn't grow up with it, is the thing they're going to be afraid of and try to legislate out of existence. It happened with videogames, it happened with television, it happened with pinball parlours and rock and roll.

Warren Spector

#23. Nobody trusts anyone, or why did they put tilt on a pinball machine ...

Steve McQueen

#24. To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

Bill Budge

#25. As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

Iggy Azalea

#26. I hope fans will go back and listen to the Beatles and the Beach Boys or Led Zeppelin, or put on 'Tommy' and let them experience like I did that moment when 'Pinball Wizard' comes on.

Drake Bell

#27. If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball.

George Carlin

#28. Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers.

Robert J. Marks II

#29. There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m.

Tom Hodgkinson

#30. The fear, though, is unassailable. The dark balls of dread pinball through my brain. This is what anxiety does to a brain, I know that. A barrage of intrusive, unwanted, and distressing thoughts that the person thinking them can't turn them off no matter how hard they try...

Lauren Miller

#31. Once again, there was talk of winning every game, and once again, we proved to be human, because an oblong ball takes funny bounces.

Michael Pinball Clemons

#32. But we have to understand why we do what we do, not just do what we do. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Pinball Clemons