Quotes About Playing Scrabble

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Duke Ellington

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

David W. Earle

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

Karen Walker

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Dennis Miller

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Bill George

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

Preston Sturges

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#18. 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

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

Edward James Olmos

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

Don Marquis

#21. 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

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

Chloe Bennet

#23. 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

#24. 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