Kauppinen Finland Quotes & Sayings

If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent an enemy bombardment of the position, would it ever occur to me to speak of a conquest of the terrain in question? Obviously not. Then why should I do so in chess? — Aron Nimzowitsch

Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory. — Wyndham Lewis

You can't learn something about all women. Sometimes I feel that the older I get, the less of a grip I've got on it. — Jamie Hince

Hunger was constitutional with him,
women, cigarettes, liquor, need need need
until he went to pieces.
The pieces sat up & wrote. They did not heed
their piecedom but kept very quietly on
among the chaos. — John Berryman

Oh, God, I would love to go and do a play someplace. — Erika Slezak

Life is
the way God has given it to me was just a platter
a golden platter of life laid out there for me. Its been beautiful. — Johnny Cash

I like to flip through play scripts, not just my own; there is something exciting about seeing printed language on a page that triggers responses in me. — Donald Margulies

Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look. — William S. Burroughs

Maybe a large, single dose of pain now is better than the slow, burning pain of withering hope. — Rae Carson

Friends at school were always quite shocked that we holidayed in Nigeria, but it was all pretty middle-class, really. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened. — Lawrence Hargrave

Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens? — Leo Tolstoy