Chawanakee Quotes & Sayings

Any game where the goal is to build territory has to be beautiful. There may be phases of combat, but they are only means to an end, to allow your territory to survive. One of the most extraordinary aspects of the game of go is that it has been proven that in order to win, you must live, but you must also allow the other player to live. Players who are too greedy will lose: it is a subtle game of equilibrium, where you have to get ahead without crushing the other player. In the end, life and death are only the consequences of how well or how poorly you have made your construction. This is what one of Taniguchi's characters says: you live, you die, these are consequences. It's a proverb for playing go, and for life. — Muriel Barbery

I'm endlessly fascinated with the ways families work and the ways they don't. — Steve James

I try to do what has never been done before. — Ishmael Reed

With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly. — Benjamin Todd Jealous

Simply sailing in a new direction you could enlarge the world — Allen Curnow

On being invited to the Jaipur Festival, I was naturally nervous about attempting an opening address to such an elite gathering. — Amartya Sen

I don't have the confidence to pull off a moustache. — Rich Sommer

Don't you see, Mara." He leaned in and whispered, "You're mine, now. — Sarah MacLean

A lot of times when you're making a record, you put your head down and charge forward until you're done. You just hope that the ideas hold up, because you're kind of lost in your own storm. — Robbie Robertson