Chess Birthday Quotes & Sayings

It's going to be legen ... wait for it ... and I hope you're not lactose-intolerant cause the second half of that word is ... dairy! — Barney Stinson

In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine twilight, painted with homemade paints, and the walls papered with pictures of children at memorable moments: the first Communion, the bunny costume, the happy birthday. Year after year, during contemplative pauses on afternoons of chess, Dr. Urbino had seen the gradual covering over of the walls, and he had often thought with a shudder of sorrow that in the gallery of casual portraits lay the germ of the future of the city, governed and corrupted by those unknown children, where note even the ashes of his glory would remain. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

At stake are two different visions of faith, the Church of Caesar, powerful and rich; and the Church of Christ - loving, poor and spiritually rich. — Penny Lernoux

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. — Montesquieu

Don't deny you feel it too. There's no goin' back for us, Liberty. — Lorelei James

The mind has no sex ... — George Sand

Famous people scare me. I get really nervous around famous people ... I overcompensate (with) how unimpressed I am, which is completely and utter rubbish. So I'm a fan. — Andrew Garfield

The thalamus is thus a critical interface between information travelling from the cortex to the motor centres, and from the senses back to the cortex, and is therefore involved in many aspects of the initiation and control of movement. — Mark Plumb

In any other job, they're truck drivers. In show-biz, they're Transportation Captains. — Drew Carey

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. — Edmund Burke

There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and cook and laugh and have a good time. As they themselves described it, it was an "inward facing" community. They were focusing on making a better existence for themselves, which I think is also the driving force of 20th century communalism in the US, the thought being that the world is corrupt, and we're going to build this little garden of innocence. — Christine Jennings

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers. — Lloyd Alexander

It's more like every electron in every atom in the universe paused, breathed in deeply, assessed the situation, and then reversed its course, spinning backward, or the other way, which was the right way all along. And afterward, the universe was exactly the same, but infinitely more right. — Lydia Netzer

CHAPTER VIII OLIVER WALKS TO LONDON. HE ENCOUNTERS ON THE ROAD, A STRANGE SORT OF YOUNG GENTLEMAN — Charles Dickens

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband. — Richard Steele

Because every desire has its proper object ... people spend their lives wanting things the shouldn't. The world confuses them into taking heir love and aiming it where it doesn't belong ... All it takes to be happy is to love the right things, in the right amounts. Not money. Not books. People. Adults who don't understand that never feel fulfilled ... — Ian Caldwell