“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
-George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
―Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
-Ernest Hemingway
“Mine Enemy is growing old —
I have at last Revenge —
The Palate of the Hate departs —
If any would avenge”
-Emily Dickinson
“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible.”
-Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The…
“In a ravine she lived, and took shape as a spider of monstrous form, weaving her black webs in a cleft of the mountains. There she sucked up all light that she could find, and spun it forth again in dark nets of strangling gloom, until no light more could come to her abode; and she was famished.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”
-Winston Churchill
Continuing an irregular tradition based on one of the most popular posts of all time,…
“I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you’ve lost human scale.”
-Harrison Ford
“If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.”
-Mario Andretti
“Picture yourself in a boat on a river, With tangerine trees and marmalade skies,
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes”
– The Beatles, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
-Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly…and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji
“That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.”
-Zadie Smith, White Teeth
“Cartooning is preaching. And I think we have a right to do some preaching. I hate shallow humor. I hate shallow religious humor, I hate shallow sports humor, I hate shallowness of any kind.”
-Charles M. Schulz
“Let the hate flow through you.”
-Emperor Palpatine
“Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes ofman.”
-Proverbs 27:20 [ESV]
“Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams a forever.”
-Walt Disney
A Link to the Past is often considered the best game in the entire Legend of Zelda series, but why? What makes this SNES title so good?
“Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singers of song.”
-Pamela Jane Barclay Brown
“Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”
-Lt. Colonel Bill Kilgore, Apocalypse Now
“You take the blue pill; the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill; you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.”
-Morpheus, The Matrix
“Whether skyward bound, adrift in time, or steeped in the glowing embers of twilight…”
“We don’t need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They’re always with us.”
-Lloyd Alexander
Intriguing narratives. Artfully crafted worlds. Clever gameplay. This is what I game for. This is what Horizon delivers.
