Gary Gygax Quotes

Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

Gary Gygax

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• In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Life
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Look
  • Pictures
  • Twitter

• New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Path

• Some of the best things about being a vegetarian include, of course, contributing towards the welfare of animals. Being a vegetarian can also make you a healthier person, and it helps the environment. All of these things make vegetarianism worthwhile. It's really a win-win situation.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Best
  • Environment
  • Animals

• Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Know
  • Player
  • Fans

• In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Culture
  • Old
  • Buildings

• I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Good
  • Music
  • Experience

• I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • People
  • Think
  • Opinion

• Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Women
  • Morning
  • Myself

• Events tend to recur in cycles.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Events
  • Tend
  • Recur

• I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dad
  • Myself
  • New York

• I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Future
  • Like
  • Present

• I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Time
  • Thought
  • End

• Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • May
  • Way
  • Travel

• Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.

  

  Iman
  • Soul
  • Stop
  • Myself

• Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Love
  • Humanity
  • Compassion

• At Manhattan GMAT, I had done my best to create a positive work environment and culture, and I further believed in rewarding people financially at or above the market rate for a job well done.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out and play the game hard.

  

  Jim Thome
  • Game

• When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out.

  

  Dolph Lundgren
  • Action
  • Pain
  • Hero

• She's the original good time who was had by all.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Good Time

• Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Game
  • Master
  • Storytelling