Quotes About Playing Scrabble

#1. People say that steadiness of mind is an end; no, it is a beginning. I am there; I can explain everything up to that point. Then I struggle to discover what comes after, so this steadiness is not an end, it is the beginning and the instrument.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#2. If you're a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don't. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.

Bill Hybels

#3. For basically two years, I took acting classes and found my own stride in L.A.

Chloe Bennet

#4. Now he's far away, floating in the clouds, playing Scrabble with the Dalai Lama, but wouldn't you know it, all the tiles are in Tibetan.

Neal Shusterman

#5. Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.

Carlisle Floyd

#6. Our is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Don Marquis

#7. I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons.

Wentworth Miller

#8. I spent the better part of the afternoon and evening playing Scrabble with Deacon. I think he regretted asking me to play, because I was one of those Scrabble players - the kind who played three-letter words every chance I got.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#9. Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

Edward James Olmos

#10. You're playing and you think everything is going fine. Then one thing goes wrong. And then another. And another. You try to fight back, but the harder you fight, the deeper you sink. Until you can't move ... you can't breathe ... because you're in over your head. Like quicksand.

Keanu Reeves

#11. A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#12. The more you stand in the limelight, the more scarred you will become and the more you will love the limelight.

Preston Sturges

#13. Accepting your shadow side is an essential part of being authentic.

Bill George

#14. We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare."
"Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's great."
"Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all put words like 'iridiums'. And I put 'pig'.

Sophie Kinsella

#15. I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I try to read at least two to three hours a day. I read only fiction.

R.L. Stine

#16. The other day I was playing Scrabble. I saw that I could close the space in D-E- -Y. I had an N and an F. Which do you think I chose? What was the word I made?

Amy Hempel

#17. We deserved our chance at life. At love. At figuring out what any of this meant. It was far from a romance. But it was still a love story. And it was ours. I was going to stop at nothing until we had our happy ending.

T.M. Frazier

#18. Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

Duke Ellington

#19. Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high-stakes Scrabble.

Dennis Miller

#20. I don't mean to be gross, but the only time it's good to yell "I have diarrhea" is when you're playing Scrabble because it's worth a shitload of points.

Zach Galifianakis

#21. In the Cleveland area, I have been instrumental in helping to save or create thousands of jobs. People know me there as a person who gets involved.

Dennis Kucinich

#22. No Scrabble. More and more of his friends were playing it now, in a knowing ironic way, triple-word-score-craving freaks, but it seemed to him like a game designed expressly to make him feel stupid and bored.

David Nicholls

#23. Floating in a lake, lying in a hammock, playing a bit of Scrabble ... that's what I'm in need of.

Karen Walker

#24. If one wants to be loved
and return it full score
dagger of silence
closes the door.

David W. Earle