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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• The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Soul
  • Snow
  • Victim

• 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 mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Society
  • Community

• 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

• The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Up
  • Building
  • Down

• 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
  • Myself
  • Morning

• 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
  • Present
  • Like

• 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

• I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • History
  • End
  • Conflict

• 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

• This dumb ox will fill the world with his bellowing.

  

  Albertus Magnus
  • World
  • Ox
  • Bellowing

• In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and because she is a woman, she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Home
  • She

• Two days before I got the audition for 'Extras,' I was offered a theatre role, and I asked my husband, Terry, whether I should take it or not. He said, 'No, wait and see what else comes in.' Lo and behold, along came 'Extras.' Now that was lucky!

  

  Ashley Jensen
  • Husband
  • Theatre

• Goals are a big part of my game. Maybe in my first few games at Tottenham, I didn't show that - I wasn't getting forward enough.

  

  Dele Alli
  • Game
  • Goals

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

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Game
  • Master
  • Storytelling