Gary Gygax Quotes

Hello Fry, it's a ... *stops mid-sentence, throws a D20 and a D6* pleasure to meet you.

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• We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Small
  • Problems
  • Down

• If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Wall

• I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Brave

• Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • River
  • Lake
  • Wilderness

• It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Earth
  • Vote
  • Resolution

• I never wrote my books especially for children.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Children
  • Never
  • Books

• Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Great
  • Help
  • Death

• Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Country
  • Money
  • Culture

• I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Life
  • Time
  • Best

• A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Everyday
  • Place
  • Where

• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Author

• It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that's great.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • People
  • Great
  • Effort

• My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Understanding
  • Things
  • Enlightenment

• Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Food
  • Yourself
  • Away

• When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Music
  • Song
  • Start

• All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Music
  • Best
  • Literature

• I've got angels watching out for me.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Me
  • Watching
  • Angels

• Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Values
  • Gift
  • Storytelling

• To obey a rule, to make a report, to give an order, to play a game of chess, are customs (uses, institutions)

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Game
  • Chess

• We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Sometimes
  • Talk
  • Tell

• She gets away with it. Everybody co-signs her bad behavior. It's like we all are co-dependent on Lindsay Lohan. When are we going to stand up to her?

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • Up
  • She
  • Bad

• Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • Children
  • Future

• Hello Fry, it's a ... *stops mid-sentence, throws a D20 and a D6* pleasure to meet you.

  

  Gary Gygax