Efim Quotes

#1. Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

Delmore Schwartz

#2. From time to time, like many other players, I glance through my own games of earlier years, and return to positions and variations which have gone out of practice. I attempt to restore them, to find new ideas and plans.

Efim Geller

#3. Just as it is wrong to work on chess by studying only the first 10-15 moves, so it is wrong to play one and the same opening system, even though it be rich in variations and nuances.

Efim Geller

#4. We are on the path toward becoming the Sparta of the 21st century, armed to the teeth and without the capacity to care for our own people.

Dennis Kucinich

#5. Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.

John Irving

#6. I'm just a regular girl who likes to go snowboarding and picks her nose like anybody else. I just like to drive into things and take risks.

Cameron Richardson

#7. The 'Cheetah Generation' refers to the new and angry generation of young African graduates and professionals, who look at African issues and problems from a totally different and unique perspective.

George Ayittey

#8. Once you hit 40, you can't do it anymore. Who's got this energy to go on three hours of sleep? You just can't do it.

Marta Kauffman

#9. It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often failed to find a win even in a won position

Efim Geller

#10. When I first heard 'Robocop' was going to be remade. I said, 'Yeah, that's interesting. I'll probably watch that at some point, but I'm not interested at all to be in it.'

Joel Kinnaman

#11. It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.

Efim Geller

#12. The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

Jack London

#13. There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.

Juan Williams

#14. I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore.

Anna Chlumsky

#15. I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

Patti Smith

#16. A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

Steven Brust

#17. Your sense of judgement could use a dash of common sense.

Susan Ee

#18. Music seems to hold everything together. It seems to make things not so chaotic sometimes. It seems to make things make more sense sometimes.

Tyler Joseph

#19. The choice of opening, whether to aim for quiet or risky play, depends not only on the style of a player, but also on the disposition with which he sits down at the board.

Efim Geller

#20. All he ever knew of her was who he saw every day. All I am is who I am every day. All anyone is to anyone is a series of days.

Charles Yu