Scrabble quotes:

+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
  • Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing. -- Duke Ellington
  • The iPad! What is better designed than that? I read magazines on it, I play Scrabble. I use it for everything. -- Diane von Furstenberg
  • I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players. -- Saffron Burrows
  • Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel. -- Sprague Grayden
  • To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it? -- Wentworth Miller
  • I'm a terrible Scrabble player. -- Andrew Bird
  • Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. -- Eddie Izzard
  • Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat. -- Fran Lebowitz
  • (My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.) -- Tina Fey
  • Maybe he's lonely. Sebastian can't be the greatest company." "We don't know that. He could be absolutely fantastic at Scrabble," said Magnus. -- Cassandra Clare
  • The name Kylie can be used for Scrabble, as it is an aboriginal word for boomerang. Which is why Ms Minogue is so good at comebacks. -- Kathy Lette
  • We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare." "Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's great." "Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all put words like 'iridiums'. And I put 'pig'. -- Sophie Kinsella
  • Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score. -- Jasper Fforde
  • The other day I was playing Scrabble. I saw that I could close the space in D-E- -Y. I had an N and an F. Which do you think I chose? What was the word I made? -- Amy Hempel
  • As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it. -- Sargent Shriver
  • I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons. -- Wentworth Miller
  • --
  • I play a lot of 'Scrabble' with my brother online. -- Lea Thompson
  • I'm just a big homebody and love word games like Scrabble and Boggle. -- Sung-Hi Lee
  • My mother is very good in Scrabble. In Boggle, my father is probably better. -- Chelsea Clinton
  • I read every country's perspective on an issue. I also play many games like Bridge, Scrabble and Sudoku online. -- Indra Nooyi
  • Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble. -- Craig Brown
  • I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500. -- Moby
  • I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry. -- Gail Carson Levine
  • Wolves never look more funny than when they have lost the scent and scrabble to find it again: they hop in the air; they run in circles, they plow up the ground with their noses . . . . -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor. -- Craig Brown
  • My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob. -- Michael Ian Black
  • Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon. -- Allan Sherman
  • I like vocabulary and I actually read a book called 'Word Freak,' which is about a guy who basically went into competitive Scrabble for a year. But having a big vocabulary and being good at Scrabble are not the same thing. -- Stephen Amell
  • Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted upon bringing a dictionary to the table, making it clear that he will be consulting it throughout the game. -- Craig Brown
  • I really love Scrabble. I played it with my mother growing up. We took it everywhere with us. We didn't know then about the two letter words. Who knew that AA, or more controversially, ZA, or QI were words? We were a games family generally. -- Meg Wolitzer
  • At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk - games I find far less addictive than the spectacular games created for consoles these days. But, whenever I get the chance, I head over to my friend Kyri's house to play his PS3. -- Beau Willimon
  • I'm a Scrabble nut, and I need something to do while I'm travelling. Scrabble keeps me occupied, I play against myself. I have a high score of 718 that I'm always trying to beat. I'm a good player. You don't want to play me for money, that's for sure. -- Suzi Quatro
  • Clary: "He wanted me to come with him. To join him and Sebastain. I guess he wants their evil little duo to be a little evil trio." She shrugged. "Maybe he's lonely. Sebastian cant be the greatest company. Magnus: we don't know that. He could be absolutely fantastic at Scrabble. -- Cassandra Clare
  • Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high-stakes Scrabble. -- Dennis Miller
  • I'm just a big homebody and love word games like Scrabble and Boggle. -- Sung-Hi Lee
  • Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's. -- Robert Breault
  • Floating in a lake, lying in a hammock, playing a bit of Scrabble...that's what I'm in need of. -- Karen Walker
  • Because I'm not really certain she'd make the best travel partner through a zombie-infested city, he hissed. She gets confused by Scrabble. -- Jesse Petersen
  • --
  • --
  • I don't mean to be gross, but the only time it's good to yell "I have diarrhea" is when you're playing Scrabble because it's worth a shitload of points. -- Zach Galifianakis
  • Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. Thatâ??s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I canâ??t really explain why. -- A. J. Jacobs
  • Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. This is true, they proved this one. The word dyslexia was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. -- Eddie Izzard
  • I've played [Scrabble] tournaments for about 20 years. My daughter, Erin, who lives with me, also travels to tournaments. While I'm not a top division player, I've won a number of tournaments. -- W. P. Kinsella
  • My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob. And proud of it. -- Michael Ian Black
  • When I'm doing a film, I love getting together after work with my costars. But we get back to L.A. and I'm like, 'I don't want to go to a club with you, dude. I mean, I think you're rad, and if you want to come play Scrabble with me, that's amazing.' -- Ginnifer Goodwin
  • My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I'll take a break and play online Scrabble. My favorite word as a child was 'carrion,' before I knew what it meant. I later created crossword puzzles, which was a lot about puns, and how words would create these strange, strange things. -- Meg Wolitzer
  • Sometimes fate just plays a strange scrabble. -- Pawan Mishra
  • On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power," the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul. -- Frank Herbert
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share