Chess Player Friend Quotes & Sayings

We cannot have good libraries until we first have good librarians-properly educated, profesionally recognized and fairly rewarded. — Herbert S. White

The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy. — Mark Twain

The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity. — Simone Weil

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts. — Regina Spektor

I think music will be created algorhythmically, all the things that we do will be boiled down to a little computer program. — Cliff Martinez

The mixed blessing of a cruise of any kind but especially a river cruise, is that one gets to see a little of everything, but not enough of one thing. It's the soup course of traveling, whetting your appetite for something more but never giving you enough soup. — Rick Garvia The Road Gets Longer If I Stop

Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant. — Erma Bombeck

I think one of the things that is easy to have happened in a superhero story is that the female character, whether she be a heroine or not, can often be the wart on the man. — Evangeline Lilly

The reaper does not listen to the harvest. — Terry Pratchett

I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying. — Sherry Stringfield

The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. — Ronald Reagan

Spring is the sacred soul of fertility. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom. — Gustave Flaubert

Titled players appeared to be trotting out game after game in which the same old hoary opening sequences, memorized out to fifteen, twenty, or even more moves, were repeated endlessly. True novelties were becoming scarcer, and sometimes these 'opening' novelties didn't appear until well into the middlegame. (A master-level friend once proudly showed me a novelty he'd discovered at move twenty-seven of a very well-trodden chess opening, and it's said that even as far back as the 1950's Mikhail Botvinnik had some openings memorised past the thirtieth move). — Steve Lopez

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing. — Charles Caleb Colton