Playing Checkers Quotes & Sayings

The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need to hype our films. — Arin Paul

Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi

I'm playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers, that's why I always lose — Josh Stern

I'm playing checkers while they're playing chess
They make the big moves that make me a little less
Even when I win and beat the pants off of the best
I'm still playing checkers while they're playing chess — Billy Joe Shaver

He was playing chess and she was sucking at checkers. — Karin Slaughter

I think there's something wrong with me - I like to win in everything I do, regardless of what it is. You want to race down the street, I want to beat you. If we're playing checkers, I want to win. You beat me, it's going to bother me. I just enjoy competition. — Derek Jeter

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that. — Darren Aronofsky

LOVE is like Playing Checkers. You have to know which Man to MOVE. — Moms Mabley

Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment. — Carl Andre

I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart. — Emily Watson

Where's Shelley?" I ask, scanning the room.
"Playing checkers, as usual," Georgia says, pointing to the corner. Shelley isn't facing me, but I recognize the back of her head and her wheelchair.
She's squealing, a hint that she won the game.
As I get closer to her, I catch a glimpse of who's playing against her. The dark hair should have been a clue that my life is about to be turned upside down, but it doesn't fully register. I freeze.
It can't be. My imagination must be going berserk.
But when he turns around and those familiar dark eyes pierce mine, reality zings up my spine like a lightning bolt.
Alex is here. Ten steps away from me. Oh, God, every feeling I've ever had for him comes rushing back like a tidal wave. I don't know what to do or say. I turn back to Georgia, wondering if she knew Alex was here. One look at her hopeful face tells me she did. — Simone Elkeles

If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it so badly? Who am I to stop the end of the world if it keeps on coming? — Patrick Ness

We must begin where we are and move forward immediately by starting small and capitalizing on what's at hand. — Mike Schmoker

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess. — Kobe Bryant

I've always lived in the moment. — Yanni

What she called the nastiness of life was the shock she received upon learning that nobody stopped playing checkers just because the pieces included her children. — Toni Morrison

Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child. — Heraclitus

It's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs. — Jon Stewart

It was like playing checkers, only to learn that your opponent was playing chess all along. — Barry Lyga

To put it mildly, the world is a mess — Madeleine Albright

I think MacGregor might be a genius. Anyone so oblivious to the horror of the human world must be. — Susan Juby

The reality is that Jesus knows exactly how things really are, and in fact he knows how things really are better than anyone else. We may look over the ethos of the Sermon on the Mount and find the whole thing utterly impractical toward getting ahead in the world, but one of the underlying points of the Sermon is that getting ahead in the world is a losing gambit to begin with. We come to Jesus's teaching looking for tips on playing checkers, when all along he is playing — Jared C. Wilson

Why is everything so easy for me? — Kristen Stewart

You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you've closed for the day and flips the board. — Mark Miller