Chess Vs Checkers Quotes

#1. I'm playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers, that's why I always lose

Josh Stern

#2. Cash or check, cash or check. Cash is better than check. Check, check, check, have a bowl of checkers, but keep a plate for chess.

Mary E. Warner

#3. Hold'em is to stud what chess is to checkers.

Johnny Moss

#4. Then you'll love chess. Chess is checkers on steroids.

Rick Yancey

#5. The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers.

Bob Costas

#6. It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.

Courtney Love

#7. It was like playing checkers, only to learn that your opponent was playing chess all along.

Barry Lyga

#8. Our wounds can so easily turn us into people we don't want to be, and we hardly see it happening.

Protect your heart, love yourself, and be with people who love and care for you.

Sue Fitzmaurice

#9. Danger is a chain ... passed from one wounded child to the next. We must stop the danger by breaking the chain. We must learn how to stay safe and be kind.

Margarita Engle

#10. Them that dally nicely with words may quickly make them wanton.

William Shakespeare

#11. Instead of hearing the message he was trying to impress upon me and the impressionable queer ears hanging on his every word, all I could think was, I can't believe he just told them all how old I am.
- Jason's reaction to Chad's speech

Ethan Day

#12. But she did not know where the doubt, the fear, began. It had always been there, but she had sought to rearrange it within herself; and in the constant rearrangement was transformation.

Amanda Coplin

#13. People give out compliments because it's polite.

Boots Riley

#14. 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

#15. The more unsettling the more I feel at home.

Kat Dennings

#16. Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer and destroy.

Wahida Clark

#17. I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.

Dennis Miller

#18. Age, style, where you come from, where you were born, it's different every time, which, to me, is refreshing because it says that there isn't any one thing, one formula or kind of character that makes a great comedian. Everybody has had a different approach.

Alan King

#19. 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

#20. Men of sense, whatever you may chuse to say, do not want silly wives.

Jane Austen

#21. It's patterns," he said. "If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama anymore. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?

Neil Gaiman

#22. He was playing chess and she was sucking at checkers.

Karin Slaughter

#23. Checkers is for tramps

Paul Morphy

#24. Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another.

Arnold Joseph Toynbee

#25. If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.

Mark Miller

#26. These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Kobe Bryant

#27. She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard to discover whether one was really a writer or just a victim of a literary home environment.

John Fowles

#28. Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered this fate quite recently thanks to the work of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta and his unbeatable program Chinook.

Garry Kasparov

#29. 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