Pinball Quotes

It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance. (Pete Townshend)
To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better. View quote
Bill Budge
I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want. View quote
Emile Hirsch
I just always loved pinball. View quote
Kevin Dillon
The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation. View quote
Rex Hunt
No, George said, you don't understand. The pinball machine--any pinball machine you play in any penny arcade--is so remarkable, so fine, so shrewdly threaded. It is already beautiful in necessity and sufficiency of wire, connection, possibility. View quote
Grace Paley
[He] had invented a pinball machine. When we saw it, we said, George! This is not a pinball machine alone. This is the poem of a pinball machine, the essence made delicately concrete, and so forth.”. View quote
Grace Paley
In video you are starting with nothing but a black screen. There's no game there. With pinball you at least start with that basic concept, but not with video. The challenge of going from no game to something today is only different because you have to create something so damn fun people will pay $1.00 every two minutes to play it. View quote
Eugene Jarvis
I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great. View quote
Matt Groening
The coolest thing, and I have it at home, is a huge Hulk Hogan, normal-sized pinball machine. When people come over they play it for hours. When you hit the bumpers and the bells ring it goes, 'Oh yeah!' The whole time you're playing this machine it's yelling and screaming at you, 'What you gonna do, brother?!' I think that's the coolest. View quote
Hulk Hogan
I'm dating myself by saying this, but I was the test audience for 'Space Invaders.' I remember when that was the first game that wasn't a pinball game. I spent a lot of money on 'Space Invaders,' in the form of quarters, of course. (John C. Reilly)
The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine. View quote
Heinz Pagels
If a movie is described as a romantic comedy you can usually find me next door playing pinball. View quote
George Carlin
As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite. View quote
Iggy Azalea
Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is the opportunity to do it again. View quote
Rick Cook
[Computer] programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers. View quote
Robert J. Marks II