Shell Game Quotes

#1. That's the thing about marriage. It's a shell game we play with ourselves. We're the suckers and we have to lose, but we play anyway because we lie to ourselves that we can win.

R. K. Milholland

#2. I was involved in Occupy Wall Street as a participant and poster artist. 'Shell Game' is an attempt to do something bigger, to use whatever artistic powers I have to explore the excitements and betrayals of that year.

Molly Crabapple

#3. He likes you, too." Finn repeated. "And don't tell me to shut up."
"Shut up!"
-Kingdom Keepers, Shell Game

Ridley Pearson

#4. Subsidies are a shell game, not a net addition to national wealth.

Thomas Sowell

#5. It's the old shell game.

Dan Rather

#6. We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China ... and it becomes this shell game.

Michael Moore

#7. Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.

Lionel Shriver

#8. What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea.

Robert Breault

#9. I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.

W.C. Fields

#10. We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before.

John F. Kerry

#11. It should be clear that modern fractional reserve banking is a shell game, a Ponzi scheme, a fraud in which fake warehouse receipts are issued and circulate as equivalent to the cash supposedly represented by those receipts.

Murray Rothbard

#12. There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Elliot Richardson

#13. Also not the kind of place to hide a server."
"Is that another pun?" She asked.
"No! I swear! I didn't mean that one."

~Shell Game, Kingdom Keepers #5

Ridley Pearson

#14. I have simply given up a longevity which I never possessed anyhow. I have turned away from the con game which the gods run in their heavenly side-show. I no longer care under which shell the pea of immortality might be found. I don't need it. I have my moment which is quite enough.

Robert Sheckley

#15. Sometimes you know that no one can replace the person you love, and your heart will never be the same.

Cheyenne McCray

#16. Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn't even known I was in the pool

Charlaine Harris

#17. [Napoleon has now] surpassed ... Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.

Charles James Fox

#18. Love is ... a madness most discreet

William Shakespeare

#19. Always resent, never relent.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#20. A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#21. You got to harden yourself. Make, like, a shell around you. But not everyone can do it. If they got nothing to hang on to some of them screw up. They're not in the game no more.

Charlie Higson

#22. The other [video game] franchises let you experience the adrenaline and horror of war, or deep fantasy worlds, or pro sports. A Mario game lets you pretend to be a middle-aged chubster hopping onto a turtle shell.

Jeff Ryan

#23. I fear that moments of quietude are on the endangered list; right behind solitude.

Nanette L. Avery

#24. If you take away the fancy graphics of today's games, most of the time you're left with a shell of a game that has been done to death a million times.

Herman Leonard

#25. I'm a bit surprised that the Raiders turned to Art Shell to be their new head coach, not because Shell isn't a good head coach - he had success before as the Raiders' head coach - but because he's been away from the game so long and the game has changed a lot in those years.

Ron Jaworski