Anderssen Quotes & Sayings

It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice. — Adolf Anderssen

My feeling is that an observer needs to see four hundred and fifty stars to get that feeling of infinitude, and be swept away ... and I didn't make that number up arbitrarily, that's the number of stars that are available once you get dimmer than third magnitude. So in the city, you see a dozen stars, a handful, and it's attractive to no one. And if there's a hundred stars in the sky it still doesn't do it. There's a certain tipping point where people will look and there will be that planetarium view. And now you're touching that ancient core, whether it's collective memories or genetic memories, or something else form way back before we were even human ... astronomer Bob Berman quoted in The End of Night — Paul Bogard

Let 'im hear me, I say. If he ever listened to poor colored women the world would be a different place, I can tell you. — Alice Walker

William the Conqueror, it is said, began by eating a mouthful of English sand. — Salman Rushdie

I'm alive now, but I don't know if I will be tomorrow. The state of being alive is not guaranteed, but should I let that stop me from living? — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Attack! Always Attack! — Adolf Anderssen

Rich Gang is a rich look. — Birdman

Ideas and thoughts and creativity is more of who I am than football. — Dhani Jones

I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost. — Adolf Anderssen

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you. — Toni Morrison