Chessboards Quotes & Sayings

What kind of tartan is this?" he said as he felt the fabric. "McCloud," Betty told him. "Welcome to the clan, son." Excellent, thought Lake. There would be no getting rid of her now. — Janet Elizabeth Henderson

One thing both my parents agree on is this: if people are doing something unfair, it's part of our job to remind them what's fair, even if sometimes it still doesn't turn out the way we want it to. — Kelly Jones

It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas. — Bill Nighy

Lincoln is theology, not historiology. He is a faith, he is a church, he is a religion, and he has his own priests and acolytes, most of whom have a vested interest in [him] and who are passionately opposed to anybody telling the truth about him. — Lerone Bennett Jr.

When I leave the hotel the porter stands beside the revolving door, primed to greet me, like a talking fork. — Joseph Roth

Telling a male lion not to be a lion wasn't exactly the easiest thing in the world. — Carrie Ann Ryan

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people. — John Philip Sousa

All [the authorities] did was to guard the distant and invisible interests of distant and invisible masters — Franz Kafka

I am completely convinced that UFOs have an out-of-world basis. — Walter Riedel

Finding out what you don't like is, paradoxically, as valuable as finding out what you do like. — Susan Jeffers

The person is only a phenomenon, the principle is behind it. Thus from both sides, simultaneously, we find the breaking down of personalities and the approach towards principles, the Personal God approaching the Impersonal, the personal man approaching the Impersonal Man. — Swami Vivekananda

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. — Voltaire

The floors were like marble chessboards, and the ceilings were like cakes. — Jonathan Safran Foer

All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of God did verily wed with our mothers, the irresistible daughters of Eve. Thus all generations are blended: and heaven and earth of one kin: the hierarchies of seraphs in the uttermost skies; the thrones and principalities in the zodiac; the shades that roam throughout space; the nations and families, flocks and folds of the earth; one and all, brothers in essence - oh, be we then brothers indeed! All things form but one whole. — Herman Melville

[ ... ] A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced. — Kathy Acker