Chessplayer Quotes

#1. Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.

Bobby Fischer

#2. A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

William Hazlitt

#3. The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.

Mikhail Tal

#4. We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature

Rudolf Spielmann

#5. This is where my heart is. I was human when my heart was stolen by him,
and I was human when I longed to be by his side.

Atsuko Asano

#6. I joined a writing class at a nearby community center, where I was the youngest participant by about 40 years. Once a week, I'd funnel down a staircase and join the dozen retirees crowded in folding chairs around a table to discuss one another's stories.

Anthony Marra

#7. Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

Alfred North Whitehead

#8. Eric Lewis doesn't play the piano, he devours it. He doesn't play music, he channels the divine.

Mariska Hargitay

#9. What you call intelligence and what you refer to as the Creator are not different. The Creator is pure intelligence, intelligence beyond logic.

Jaggi Vasudev

#10. That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.

James Frey

#11. When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you.

Israelmore Ayivor

#12. Please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. Cordone, delighted with himself for swindling the gullible Indians out of a fortune in pearls, stood at the railing of his ship smiling down at the pursuers. He was about to order his soldiers to fire upon the Indians when he was struck in the chest by an arrow. He dropped to the deck.

W.C. Jameson