Cecil Purdy Quotes

#1. I'm not trying to change things in the world and trying to use my leverage to do so. The only thing I'm trying to change in the world is that I'm trying to increase the amount of useful information in it. And entertainment, honestly.

Rachel Maddow

#2. We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

Emile Durkheim

#3. Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf

Cecil Purdy

#4. I went to Phuket already, but would love to go to Chiang Mai one day.

Roger Federer

#5. It now becomes clear that consistency is not a property of a formal system per se, but depends on the interpretation which is proposed for it. By the same token, inconsistency is not an intrinsic property of any formal system.

Douglas R. Hofstadter

#6. I make movies. I'm not in politics.

Andrew Niccol

#7. Compassion is not against anger. When anger disappears, compassion is. Compassion is not to be fought for; it is not against passion. When passion disappears, compassion is. Compassion is your nature.

Rajneesh

#8. Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration

Cecil Purdy

#9. Colonel Andrews popped his head through the doorway. "Did I hear a sigh?"
Miss Charming screamed and dropped her needlework, and Charlotte jumped in her chair, knocking her knee against a marble coffee table.

Shannon Hale

#10. If you want to be a legend, God help you, it's so easy. You just do one thing. You can be the master of suspense, say. But if you want to be as invisible as is practical, then it's fun to do a lot of different things.

Mike Nichols

#11. How smoothly one becomes, not a cheat, exactly, not really a liar, just a man who'll say anything for pay.

Sloan Wilson

#12. Everyone was getting married and it seemed like fun. I

Louise Penny

#13. Do I need to explain how to make love to a woman? Because although I've never had the pleasure, I'm fairly certain it involves thrusting.

Leisa Rayven

#14. The real 'have' and 'have nots' are between the people who were caught sinning verses the ones who got away with committing sin.

E. Leo Foster

#15. I maintain that in every position that arises, we should deliberately search, among other things, for pieces which have no retreat. If we see one, we automatically look to see if it can be netted.

Cecil Purdy

#16. Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?

Oswald Chambers

#17. I have never liked haircuts.

John Updike