“I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
Interview https://youtube.com/watch?v=CNPW0WHIAvo?t=872 by Penny Daniels (1989)
“I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
John Harsanyi (1920–2000) hungarian economist
"John C. Harsanyi - Biographical," 1994
Dan Patrick (1956) American sportscaster
Catch Phrases
Source: http://www.baylorfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56404&page=1
Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)
Variant: 'Halley shattered their monopoly, beating them at their own game. A game that no scientist had every played before: Prophecy.
“My work is a game, a very serious game.”
M. C. Escher (1898–1972) Dutch graphic artist
No known direct citation to a work or interview with Escher; it appears in The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Cover Letter (1997) by Susan Ireland, p. 258 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9OMcWS5K-JMC&pg=PA258, and The Universal Book of Mathematics : From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes (2004) by David Darling, p. 107 <br class="br">disputed quotes
“The only real game — I think — in the world is baseball.”
Babe Ruth (1895–1948) American baseball player
Farewell Address (1947)
Gary Gygax (1938–2008) American writer and game designer
As quoted in "Dungeon Masters in Cyberspace" in The New York Times (27 February 2006) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/27/arts/27drag.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all
“The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.”
Ernie Banks (1931–2015) American baseball player and coach
Sporting News (May 12, 1970).
“There are no winners in real games.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“Game II,” p. 97
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Game”