Spielmann Quotes & Sayings

We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a 'cyborg,' not a 'robot.' — Ken Jennings

At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost. — Alice Walker

Punishing the devil is a dangerous business. — Nick Iuppa

This had always frightened her about marriage: how satisfied married people seemed, how unable they were to ask for more. She couldn't imagine feeling satisfied. — Brit Bennett

What the devil possessed me to reply 1 ... e5?? I compltely forgot that Spassky, like Spielmann in the past, very much likes to play the King's Gambit. — David Bronstein

Visible nature is but a distorted reflection of a more perfect world and the creative individual viewing her is inspired to perceive within and behind her many garments, that which is timeless and entirely beautiful. — Lawren Harris

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. — Gustave Flaubert

Rear your children in light and truth. Teach them to pray while they are young. Read to them from the scriptures even though they may not understand all that you read. Teach them to pay their tithes and offerings on the first money they ever receive. Let this practice become a habit in their lives. Teach your sons to honor womanhood. Teach your daughters to walk in virtue. Accept responsibility in the Church, and trust in the Lord to make you equal to any call you may receive. Your example will set a pattern for your children. Reach out in love to those in distress and need. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Man's collective mastery of nature - even if we could ignore the mounting evidence that this too is largely an illusion - can hardly be expected to confer a sense of confidence and well- being when it coexists with centralizing forces that have deprived individuals of any mastery over the concrete, immediate conditions of their existence. The collective control allegedly conferred by science is an abstraction that has little resonance in everyday life. — Christopher Lasch

The older I get, the more impressed I am with women. I have yet to meet a woman who is not strong. They don't exist. — Diane Von Furstenberg

The beauty of a game of chess is usually assessed according to the sacrifices it contains. — Rudolf Spielmann

Wisdom sails with wind and time. — John Florio

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction. — Heinrich Heine

People seldom recognize opportunity for it comes disguised as hard work. — K. Balachander

Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it. Zaphod Beeblebrox was amazingly good at his job. — Douglas Adams

I can comprehend Alekhine's combinations well enough; but where he gets his attacking chances from and how he infuses such life into the very opening - that is beyond me. — Rudolf Spielmann

We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature — Rudolf Spielmann

I think you should suffer sometimes to be attractive and beautiful, so I cut the clothes very slim because I like to feel the clothes on my body. — Tom Ford

When people speak of the borderline between genius and madness, why is it so evident what they mean? — James Gleick

In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending he should play like a machine. — Rudolf Spielmann