Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Quotes & Sayings

Enjoy yourself while you have the chance, I say; we shall all be dead in a hundred years and what will anything matter then? — W. Somerset Maugham

Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower. — William C. Bryant

Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians. — Paul Watson

In mothering, if you do it right, you work yourself out of a job. — Karen Tyler

art is
a mode of stalking — Ron Silliman

If you look at my history, I'm not gonna let that many people into whatever I'm going through. — Andy Kim

We need not seek our own best selves, and in the meantime we inoculate ourselves against the viruses of age and idealism, which, as the advertising agencies well know, depress sales and sour the feasts of consumption. — Lewis H. Lapham

I auditioned [for America's Most Talented Kids] just to see where I would rank. I had been playing [gigs] around town, and I wanted to see what people thought of me because when I played a show, everyone would clap but I didn't know what they were really thinking. — Cheyenne Kimball

She runs up into the light surprised
Her arms are opened
Her mind's eye is
Seeing things from a better side than most can dream — Dave Matthews

But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability. — Greg Mortenson

Damon: Is it working? Being in her world? Does it make you feel alive? — L.J.Smith

If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing. — Manly P. Hall

He let his mind wander slightly closer to his present. Electronic music bled into his awareness, reminding him that his body was actually in Ronan's car. In this other place, it was easy to tell that the music was the sound of Ronan's soul. Hungry and prayerful, it whispered of dark places, old places, fire and sex. — Maggie Stiefvater

Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too many. Truth is barbed: if it comforts, it lies. Truth is an armed dancer. — Robert Grudin

They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances. — Charles Dickens