Shell Games Quotes & Sayings

Errol Flynn and I are the only ones left who do any good old hell raising. — Humphrey Bogart

The drum-fire of propaganda that the Fed is manning the ramparts against the menace of inflation brought about by others is nothing less than a deceptive shell game. The culprit solely responsible for inflation, the Federal Reserve, is continually engaged in raising a hue-and-cry about 'inflation,' for which virtually everyone else in society seems to be responsible. What we are seeing is the old ploy by the robber who starts shouting 'Stop, thief!' and runs down the street pointing ahead at others. — Murray Rothbard

And I suspected I'd do almost anything to spend the rest of my life making this woman happy. — Christina Lauren

What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea. — Robert Breault

I think I need to spend some time with safari but what arrests my attention are salient, sadomasochism, saccadic, and salad days. I think I will go learn more about coral only to learn a lot more about corollary and counterturn and coffin nail. I go from magnificence to means to marquee to maniac to distyle, ductile, hindsight, shell game, veronica, yardstick, ball field, magpie, variegated, and close shave. — Dara Wier

We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before. — John F. Kerry

If you take away the fancy graphics of today's games, most of the time you're left with a shell of a game that has been done to death a million times. — Herman Leonard

I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic. — John Banville

You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it. — Jules Verne

The other [video game] franchises let you experience the adrenaline and horror of war, or deep fantasy worlds, or pro sports. A Mario game lets you pretend to be a middle-aged chubster hopping onto a turtle shell. — Jeff Ryan

Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed. — Terence McKenna

She swallowed thick spurts of release with fierce hunger, her own moans rising to his ears, vibrating through his shaft. He bucked into her, thrust into her, pumped into her mouth until rhythm ceased to exist to him and his body was no longer his, but hers. Until his seed was drained of him, and her tongue washed him clean.
Until he was lost to her. Christ, he was lost to her. — Lexxie Couper

Subsidies are a shell game, not a net addition to national wealth. — Thomas Sowell

The shell game that we play ... is technically called 'renormalization'. But no matter how clever the word, it is still what I would call a dippy process! Having to resort to such hocus-pocus has prevented us from proving that the theory of quantum electrodynamics is mathematically self-consistent. It's surprising that the theory still hasn't been proved self-consistent one way or the other by now; I suspect that renormalization is not mathematically legitimate. — Richard P. Feynman

I don't remember not playing games. I think my pre-industry experience is me building LEGO houses and wishing people would go through them. — Brenda Brathwaite

Everything in ... nature, is descended out that which is eternal, and stands as a..visible outbirth of it, so when we know how to separate out the grossness, death, and darkness..from it, we find..it in its eternal state. — William Law

It's the old shell game. — Dan Rather

I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game. — W.C. Fields

I love punk rock, but I also love metal. — Penelope Spheeris

Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you ... Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations. — Alan Moore

Only the framing material," Lucas demurely, "obvious influences, Neo-Tokyo from Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Metal Gear Solid by Hideo Kojima, or as he's known in my crib, God. — Thomas Pynchon

Scientists now know that the brain is incapable of paying attention to two things at the same time. — Susan Cain

The essences of all religions speak of peace, compassion, justice and the interconnection of all life. — Jo Ann Emerson