Ani DiFranco Quotes

I have nothing to do with anything that happens to me.

JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name? ORLANDO: Yes, just. JAQUES: I do not like her name. ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.

That's the name of the game ... pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we've lost the ball game.

On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.

My part of the game is that I must live the best I can.

My name is Reggie. I'm about kicking ass, I'm about taking names, and we're about making games.

Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.

It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was perhaps a perfectly definite necessity of that life and would have been absorbed by it without effort.

You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.

How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.

Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.

No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.

If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.

Even snakes are afraid of snakes.

Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'In love I hold you for your rescue and sake-keeping. But now you have done ill to me, friend, to betray my right name, and call my doom upon me, from which I would lie hid.' But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

Don't come to me with your troubles. I have to work for my money and you are young enough to work too. If you can't make enough money to live on you can jump out of the window or drown yourself.

Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.

To be aroused in the dark by five feet of cold, green snake gliding over one's face is unpleasant.

The biggest weakness with my game is that I have fun with the galleries. I just love a gallery.

To me a lawyer is basically the person that knows the rules of the country. We're all throwing the dice, playing the game, moving our pieces around the board, but if there's a problem, the lawyer is the only person that has actually read the inside of the top of the box.

I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws. I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. And I liked that he had two names. I’ve always liked people with two names, because you get to make up your mind what you call them: Gus or Augustus? Me, I was always just Hazel, univalent Hazel.

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.

My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don't know why I picked that name; it's kind of random.

He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.