Famous quotes containing the words hidden, object and/or game:
“It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.”
—Eva Figes (b. 1932)
“We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused—in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery—by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press—their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)
“A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)