Video Gamer Quotes! 300+ Best Gaming Quotes for Gamers
Best Video Gamer Quotes
“Be the game changer.”
“Escape reality and play games.”
“Heroes never die.” —Mercy, Overwatch
“I am a think gamer with twitch tendencies.”
“Needless to say, nobody is born an avid gamer.”
“My brain is 90% gaming, tactics and 10% random stuffs.”
“Mess with the best, you will die like the rest.”
“Failure doesn’t mean game over, it means try again with experience.”
“Beauty fades, this is why it’s beautiful.” —Kindred, League of Legends
“I could lie and tell you I am a hardcore gamer, I’m not.”
“Yes! I am a gamer, but surely I don’t play until you start gaming.”
“When I play fighting games, I press random buttons and hope for the rest.”
“The further you get into technology, the further you go into technology, that’s the general rule.”
“If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.” —Red Dead Redemption
“When you are drowning you still remember how to breathe but you can’t? That’s the mist.” —Senna, League of Legends
“Can a man be brave if he’s afraid? That is the only time a man can be brave.” —Game of Thrones
Best Gaming Quotes
“I blame myself every day. For the plan, for meeting you, for not stopping you when I had the chance, I don’t make that mistake anymore, I see the problem, and I step in.”
“The game has its ups and down, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can let yourself be beaten because of lack of effort.”
“Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor still matters. The silence is your answer.” —Mass Effect Series
“If you have gun, you can rob a bank, but if you have a bank, you can rob anyone.” —Black Mask
“True grace is beautiful in its imperfection, honest in its emotion, freed by it’s on reality.” —League of Legends.
“If you are fighting enemies in your journey, then you are going to the right place.”
“The world is full of unanswered questions, beyond all limits or reason. The answers await.”
“Even in the darkest of roads, the lord will always guide you through his light.”
“We fail, We Break, We Fall but then We Rise, We Heal, We Overcome.”
“No matter how small, all creatures have a right to exist in this world.”
“I have come to retrieve my power, you can’t handle it.” —Dante’s awakening
“Break a trillion dead souls and ask the ghost if honor still matters.”
“Wake the f**k up Samurai, We have city to burn.” —Cyberpunk 2077’.
“I am done with searching, I want to be around and living.”
“The stronger you press the buttons, the stronger the attack is.”
“Battles come and go, I am eternal.” —League of Legends
Best Gamer Quotes
“I Dream of better world where I can play video games all day long without having my sanity questioned.”
“Wanting something does not give you the right to have it.” —Assassin’s Creed 2
“I am a man of unfortunate and I must seek my fortune.” —Uncharted 4
“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.”
“I am man of fortune, and I must seek my fortune.” —A Thief’s End
“The monster you have killed is returned to kill you.” —God of War.
“Losing is just an opportunity to shine brighter.” —Lux, League of Legends
“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” —Animal Crossing
“If I cannot outsmart them, I will outfight them.” —Dota 2
“If I cannot outsmart them, I will outfight them.” —Dota 2
“Video games foster the mindset that allows creativity to grow.”
“They told me I couldn’t, that’s why I did.”
“I am card carrying nerd, a gamer sci-fi geek.”
“Keep friends close and enemies guessing.” —League of Legends
“Games the only legal place to kill stupids.”
“Progress, Demands, Sacrifice.” —Uncharted Lost Legacy
“Hesitation is defeat.” —Shadows die twice
“Gaming is not a crime.”
“Keep calm and game on.”
“Just one more game.”
Inspirational & Badass Video Game Quotes for Gamers
“The healthy human mind doesn’t wake up in the morning thinking this is its last day on Earth. But I think that’s a luxury, not a curse. To know you’re close to the end is a kind of freedom.” —Captain Price, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
“They say… hope begins in the dark. But most just flail around in the blackness searching for their destiny. The darkness, for me, is where I shine.” —Riddick, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
“The most horrible thing about death is how it turns a person into a thing. It’s a thing that looks like your friend, but it’s not them anymore.” —Sigma, Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward
“Hatred and prejudice will never be eradicated. And the witch hunts will never be about witches. To have a scapegoat, that’s the key.” —Geralt of Rivia, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
“Force answers force, war breeds war, and death only brings death. To break this vicious circle one must do more than act without any thought or doubt.” —Khan, Metro 2033
“It is a sign of strength, to cry out against fate, rather than to bow one’s head and succumb.” —Gabriel Angelos, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
“Too many people have opinions on things they know nothing about. And the more ignorant they are, the more opinions they have.” —Thomas Hildern, Fallout: New Vegas
“It’s a funny thing, ambition. It can take one to sublime heights or harrowing depths. And sometimes they are one and the same.” —Emily Kaldwin, Dishonored 2
“Part of growing up is doing what’s best for the people you care about, even if sometimes, that means hurting someone else.” —Lee Everett, The Walking Dead
“Trust not a man who has betrayed his master, nor take him into your own service, lest he betray you too.” —The Prince, Prince of Persia
“The moment you close your eyes on the battlefield is the moment you never open them again.” —The End, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
“Nobody knows what’s gonna happen at the end of the line, so you might as well enjoy the trip.” —Manuel “Manny” Calavera, Grim Fandango
“Six billion cries of agony will birth a new balance. Unfortunately you will not live to see the dawn.” —Albert Wesker, Resident Evil 5
“War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other.” —Niko Bellic, Grand Theft Auto IV
“Men are but flesh and blood. They know their doom, but not the hour.” —Uriel Septim VII, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
“Only under light does a flower bloom with beauty. A flower tainted with darkness is fated to wither away.” —Endrance, .hack//G.U.
“Closing your eyes forces you to look at the darkness inside.” —Max Payne, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
“You see, at this point… I’m pretty much the Queen Bitch of the Universe.” —The Queen of Blades, Starcraft: Brood War
“We are the sum of our deeds, not our names.” —Ramza Beoulve, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions
“I looked for the truth. Found it. Didn’t like it. Wish to hell I could forget it.” —Alex Mercer, Prototype
“I can’t tell you to remember me, but I can’t bear for you to forget me.” —Mary, Silent Hill 2
“No matter who you are, bearing too much weight… Inevitably leads to the collapse of everything.” —Don Juan, Hotline Miami
“Even the good leaders make poor decisions, its the best leaders that take responsibility for them.” —Kratos, God of War
“Technologies are invented to make our lives easier — not our choices.” —Adam Jensen, Deus Ex: Human Revolution
“The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.” —G-Man, Half-Life 2
“After all we’ve been through. Everything that I’ve done. It can’t be for nothing.” —Ellie, Last of Us
“I believe in a universe that doesn’t care and people who do.” —Angus Delaney, Night in the Woods
“A wife can make you twice the man you were on your own.” —Bak, The Banner Saga 2
“A strong man doesn’t need to read the future. He makes his own.” —Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid
“I may be but small, but I will die a colossus.” —Ludleth of Courland, Dark Souls III
“Remember those who have passed, and they will forever live on.” —Sein, Ori and the Blind Forest
“Beauty is only skin deep and that b*tch has no skin.” —Garcia Hotspur, Shadows of the Damned
“Some people are born to be monsters. Some jobs, only a monster can do.” —Billiken, Yakuza 0
“There’s nothing as dangerous as a crowd with the wrong idea.” —Edér Teylecg, Pillars of Eternity
“The hardest battles are fought in the mind, not with the sword.” —Dillion, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
“Excellence isn’t an art, it’s a habit. We are what we repeatedly do.” —The Edge, Furi
“A hunter is a hunter, even in a dream.” —Micolash, Host of the Nightmare, Bloodborne
“What good is an intellect if you can’t use it?” —Raiden, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
“Dream, not of what you are, but of what you want to be.” —Margulis, Warframe
“Vengeance does not dull pain. It sustains it…. forever.” —Celebrimbor, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
“Wisdom is the offspring of Suffering and Time.” —Emperor Izaro, Path of Exile
“Machines aren’t capable of evil. Humans make them that way.” —Lucca, Chrono Trigger
“When the weak court death, they find it.” —Grigori, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen
“The weak suffer. I endure.” —The Transcendent One, Planescape: Torment
“A man chooses, a slave obeys.” —Andrew Ryan, Bioshock
Video Gamer Quotes about Courage
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts – ‘Call of duty – Modern Warfare’.”
“If our lives are already written, it would take a courageous man to change the script.” —Alan Wake, Alan Wake
“Courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten.” —Princess Zelda, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
“If our lives are already written, it would take a courageous man to change the script.” —Alan Wake
Video Gamer Quotes about Love
“I raised you, and loved you, I’ve given you weapons, taught you techniques, endowed you with knowledge. There’s nothing more for me to give you. All that’s left for you to take in my life.” —Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
“You gave them the one thing that was stolen from them. A chance. A chance to learn. To find love. To live. And in the end what was your reward? You never said. But I think I know: a family.” —Bioshock
“I am a big, so I love my play station to switch from triathlon.”
“Love is just a chemical. We give it meaning by choice.” —Bioshock 2
“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
Best Gamers Quotes about Life
“Games always believe that an epic win is possible and that it’s always worth trying and trying now.”
“If you get a gut feeling that something isn’t right about a person or situation, trust it.”
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.”
“If there is nothing in chest, a chest doesn’t mean anything. – Soul Blazer.”
“In the ashes of trillion dead and ask me the ghosts if honor matters.”
“Don’t let things get on the top of you, get on top of them.”
“Maturity is when you realize Winner Chicken Dinner is not a great success.”
“All that we do, all that we are, begins and ends with ourselves.”
“There isn’t any shame in being weak, the shame is in staying weak.”
“Games are a way to escaping reality that’s why you need heroic factor.”
“Despair in the enemy greatest Weapon, Do not let them wield it.”
“I have come to retrieve my power, you can’t handle it.” —Vergil
“Take pride in your work, Even if it’s not the prettiest.”
“I can’t develop feelings, that’s how most idiots screwed up.”
“I don’t need a therapy, I just need video games.”
“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”
“Keep calm and blame it on the lag.”
“Steel wins battles, Gold wins wars.” —DOTA 2
“Tonight, I feast on the flesh of fools.”
“Do more of what makes you happy.”
“Home is where you are player one.”
Video Game Quotes about Life
“Life isn’t just about passing on your genes. We can leave behind much more than just DNA. Through speech, music, literature, and movies… what we’ve seen, heard, felt… anger, joy, and sorrow… these are the things I will pass on. That’s what I live for. We need to pass the torch, and let our children read our messy and sad history by its light. We have all the magic of the digital age to do that with. The human race will probably come to an end sometime, and new species may rule over this planet. Earth may not be forever, but we still have the responsibility to leave what traces of life we can. Building the future and keeping the past alive are one and the same thing.” —Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
“You mustn’t allow yourself to be chained to fate, to be ruled by your genes. Human beings can choose the kind of life that they want to live. What’s important is that you choose life… and then live.” —Metal Gear Solid
“You don’t have to save the world to find meaning in life… Sometimes, all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of.” —Aigis, Persona 3
“Good! Now we can fight as warriors. Hand-to-hand, it is the basis of all combat. Only a fool trusts his life to a weapon.” —Metal Gear Solid
“The worst point in my life is when I study until late at night and the material that I have learnt does come out in the test.”
“Federico: “It is a good life we lead, brother.” Ezio: “The best. May it never change.” Federico: “And may it never change us.” —Assassin’s Creed II
“Kind lost, no one to blame. Last night met an old foe, directing me the right way not sure if its life or a video game.
“Curiosity is essential to carving your own path through life. Get too curious, though, and it’ll be a short walk.” —Luxord, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
“Don’t ever stop always keep going, no matter what happens and is taken from you. Even when life is unfair. Don’t give up.”
“When life gives you curdled milk, be patient, you get very good cheese – ‘Braum, League of Legends’.
“I don’t need to get a life, I am a gamer, and I have lots of lives.”
“There is thin line between life and death, you will find me there.” —Apex Legends
“As life ebbs, terrible vistas of emptiness reveal themselves.” —The Narrator, Darkest Dungeon
“When life is gets hard that means you leveled up.”
“Tasted a good life once…needed salt.” —League of Legends
“Life is a game, Play to win.”
Short Video Game Quotes for Gamers
“You were almost a Jill sandwich.” —Resident Evil
“Do you like hurting other people?” —Hotline Miami
“No Russian.” —Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
“Endure and survive.” —The Last of Us
“Do a barrel roll.” —Star Fox 64
“A man chooses; a slave obeys.” —Bioshock
“You have died of dysentery.” —Oregon Trail
“War has changed” —Metal Gear Solid IV
“It’s a-me, Mario.” —Assassin’s Creed II
“Snake? Snake? SNAKE.” —Metal Gear Solid
“Stay awhile and listen.” —Diablo 2
“The cake is a lie” —Portal
“Praise the sun.” —Dark Souls
“[silence]” —The Legend of Zelda
“You Have Died” —Dark Souls
“FINISH HIM.” —Mortal Kombat
“Would you kindly…” —Bioshock
“War…war never changes” —Fallout
“Waka Waka Waka” —Pacman
“Frostmourne hungers” —WarCraft III
“Had to be me… Someone else might have got it wrong.” —Mass Effect 3
“No matter how dark the night, the morning always comes.” —Final Fantasy X
“Thank you, Mario! But our Princess is in another castle.” —Super Mario
“Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?” —Bad Dudes
“Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity?” —Far Cry 3
“Nothing is more badass than treating a woman with respect.” —Borderlands 2
“I don’t need a weapon; my friends are my power.” —Kingdom Hearts
“It’s dangerous to go alone, take this.” —The Legend of Zelda
“Hey! Look! Listen! – The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
“Why walk when you can ride?” —The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
“Kept you waiting, huh?” — Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes
“Stop right there, criminal scum.” —The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
“I like shorts! They’re comfy and easy to wear.” —Pokémon
“What is bravery, without a dash of recklessness?” —Dark Souls
“You require more vespene gas” and “Not Enough Minerals” —StarCraft
“Nothing is true, everything is permitted.” —Assassin’s Creed franchise
“I never asked for this” —Deus Ex: Human Revolution
“DEATH IS A PREFERABLE ALTERNATIVE TO COMMUNISM” —Fallout 3
“A man chooses, a slave obeys.” —Bioshock
“Video games are always half real.” —Jesper Juul
“One who knows nothing can’t understand nothing.” —Kingdon Hearts
“Steel wins battles. Gold wins wars.” —Davion, the Dragon Knight
“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” —Chief
“Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.” —Taylor Kitsch
“Nothing is more badass than treating a woman with respect.” —Mr. Torgue
“Video games are a huge, incredibly popular, world transforming medium.” —Austin Grossman
“Knowledge is useless if it is not used.” —Gixx, Guild Wars 2
“We all make choices but in the end our choices make us.” —Bioshock
“In the darkest hour, there is always a way out.” —Eve, Mass Effect 3
Best Video Game Quotes about Love, Life and Courage
“So, I guess I’d become what they wanted me to be, a killer. Some rent-a-clown with a gun who puts holes in other bad guys. Well, that’s what they had paid for, so in the end, that’s what they got. Say what you want about Americans, but we understand capitalism. You buy yourself a product and you get what you pay for, and these chumps had paid for some angry gringo without the sensibilities to know right from wrong. Here I was about to execute this poor bastard like some dime store angel of death, and I realized they were correct, I wouldn’t know right from wrong if one of them was helping the poor and the other was banging my sister…” —Max Payne 3
“I am Andrew Ryan, and I’m here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? ‘No!’ says the man in Washington, ‘It belongs to the poor.’ ‘No!’ says the man in the Vatican, ‘It belongs to God.’ ‘No!’ says the man in Moscow, ‘It belongs to everyone.’ I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose… Rapture, a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well.” —Bioshock
“Most test subjects do experience some cognitive deterioration after a few months in suspension. Now you’ve been under for… quite a lot longer, and it’s not out of the question that you might have a very minor case of serious brain damage. But don’t be alarmed, alright? Although, if you do feel alarmed, try to hold onto that feeling because that is the proper reaction to being told you have brain damage.” —Portal 2
“…it is merely an observation on the nature of reality. To say that nothing is true is to realize that the foundations of society are fragile and that we must be the shepherds of our civilization. To say that everything is permitted is to understand that we are the architects of our actions and that we must live with our consequences, whether glorious or tragic.” —Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
“All men dream – but not equally. Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity… But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.” From T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom – Uncharted 3
“The thing about happiness is that you only know you had it when it’s gone. I mean, you may think to yourself that you’re happy. But you don’t believe it. You focus on the petty bull ****, or the next job, or whatever. It’s only looking back by comparison with what comes after that you understand, that’s what happiness felt like.” —Fallout 4
“Our world, with its rules of causality, has trained us to be miserly with forgiveness. By forgiving too readily, we can be badly hurt. But if we’ve learned from a mistake and become better for it, shouldn’t we be rewarded for the learning, rather than punished for the mistake?” —Braid
“I got caught up in the money, the power…I don’t give a st, oh fk man…I had no choice, I had to do it…I only see the opportunity. But when I’m gone, everyone’s gonna remember my name: Big Smoke.” —Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
“Boss… you were right. It’s not about changing the world. It’s about doing our best to leave the world… the way it is. It’s about respecting the will of others and believing in your own.” —Metal Gear Solid IV: Guns of the Patriots
“My past is not a memory. It’s a force at my back. It pushes and steers. I may not always like where it leads me, but like any story, the past needs resolution. What’s past is prologue.” —Metroid: The Other M
“Right and wrong are not what separate us and our enemies. It’s our different standpoints, our perspectives that separate us. Both sides blame one another. There’s no good or bad side. Just two sides holding different views.” —Final Fantasy VIII
“The sun went down with practiced bravado. Twilight crawled across the sky, laden with foreboding. I didn’t like the way the show started. But they had given me the best seat in the house. Front row center.” —Max Payne
“The world fears the inevitable plummet into the abyss. Watch for that moment and when it comes, do not hesitate to leap. It is only when you fall that you learn whether you can fly.” —Dragon Age: Origins
“Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain, or live and fight your sorrow. Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands” —Final Fantasy X
“They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over.” —Max Payne
“Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain’t nothing fair.” —Red Dead Redemption
“We’re not tools of the government or anyone else. Fighting was the only thing I was good at, but at least I always fought for what I believed in.”– Metal Gear Solid
“Tell me Bats. What are you scared of? Failing to save this cesspool of a city? Not finding the Commissioner in time? Me, in a thong?” —Batman: Arkham Asylum
“You can’t break a man the way you break a dog or a horse. The harder you beat a man, the taller he stands.” —Far Cry 2
“Hope is what makes us strong. It is why we are here. It is what we fight with when all else is lost.” —God of War 3
“Time passes, people move. Like a river’s flow, it never ends. A childish mind will turn to noble ambition.” —The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
“At the end of the day, as long as there are two people left on the planet, someone is gonna want someone dead.” —Team Fortress 2
“Reliance upon others is a weakness for the strong but strength for the weak. Wisdom and balance lie in knowing your nature over time.” —Thief II
“What is a man but the sum of his memories? We are the stories we live, the tales we tell ourselves.” —Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
“Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. Their silence is your answer.” —Mass Effect 3
“I’ve struggled a long time with survivin’, but no matter what you have to find something to fight for.” —The Last of Us
“War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other.” —Grand Theft Auto IV
“The truth, Walker, is that you’re here because you wanted to feel like something you’re not: A hero.” —Spec Ops: The Line
“Shadow and light are two sides of the same coin. One cannot exist without the other.” —The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
“What is better – to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?” —The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
“I used to be an adventurer like you until I took an arrow to the knee.” —The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
“What is a drop of rain, compared to the storm? What is a thought, compared to the mind?” —System Shock 2
“A famous explorer once said that the extraordinary is in what we do, not who we are.” —Tomb Raider
“Men are but flesh and blood. They know their doom, but not the hour.” —The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
“Only a mind free of impediments is capable of grasping the chaotic beauty of the world.” —Assassin’s Creed
Batman: “You want to know something funny? Even after everything you’ve done, I would have saved you.”
“It ain’t no secret I didn’t get these scars falling over in church.” —Red Dead Redemption
“There are two ways of arguing with a woman, and neither one works” —Red Dead Redemption
Video Gamer Quotes and Sayings
I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.” —Ronald Reagan
“Video games are no substitute for real world pleasures (marriage, the birth of a child, spiritual enlightenment, what have you), but they do provide a nice reprieve from real world woes.” —Brett Weiss
“We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative.” —Herb Kohl
“The destructive effects of video games are not on boys’ cognitive abilities or their reaction times, but on their motivation and their connectedness with the real world.” —Leonard Sax
“Death is inevitable. Our fear of it makes us play safe, blocks out emotion. It’s a losing game. Without passion, you are already dead.” —Max Payne
“The world is born from zero. The moment that zero became one is the moment that world springs to life.” —Metal Gear Solid 4
“Hope is what makes us strong. It is why we are here. It is what we fight with when all else is lost.” —Pandora
“One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.” —Jinx Milea
“It is really hard to make it convincing enough that you forget you are playing a video game.” —Tim Page
“Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.” —Bill Budge
“Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.”
“The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.” —Shigeru Miyamoto
“If there is truly evil in this world, it lies within the heart of mankind.” —Edward D. Morrison
“I believe love is the only entity that doesn’t change over time.” —Albert from Legend of Dragoon
“Mess with the best, you will die like the rest.” —Duke Nukem from Duke Nukem 3D
“Every lie contains the truth, and every truth contains a lie…” —Shu from Suikoden II
“In video games, one of the most helpless against injustice can even mighty.” —Glenn Greenwald
“Video games are bad for you? That’s what they said about rock-n-roll.” —Shigeru Miyamoto
“Videogames are a little more work and they’re a little more stilted.” —Carlos Alazraqui