Top 100 Fischer's Quotes
#1. In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead
Isaac Kashdan
#2. Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess
Frank Brady
#3. This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.
Anatoly Karpov
#4. We measure our success of love in the images of love. But those images are static. And it's a hopeless project, because our love will never be like that image. The actual reality of love in our lives is much more chaotic.
Pernille Fischer Christensen
#5. You want to know who's now running the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the Marines and calling the shots where it counts? Fundamentalist Muslims and homosexual activists.
Bryan Fischer
#6. What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.
Ben Kingsley
#7. There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely. That's what I don't like.
Bobby Fischer
#8. In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
Bobby Fischer
#9. If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
#10. The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
Martin H. Fischer
#11. I think if you are a musician, and artist, you have to have a certain courage. Repeating yourself or photocopying other's art... it's cowardice. If you actually risk your career to do something new, even if it's in a very small way, then it's art.
Thomas Gabriel Fischer
#12. 'Cause it's really hard, it's hard to be an actor.
Jenna Fischer
#13. I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There's no doubt of it in my mind.
Bobby Fischer
#14. Acceptance is rare and uncommon.
To gain it is a treasure. To lack it is a tragedy.
There's no guarantee for such a dream.
- Makenna Goldwin
D. Fischer
#16. When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration.
Tibor Fischer
#17. Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.
Bobby Fischer
#18. It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.
Bobby Fischer
#19. It's valuable to me as an artist and actor to explore all kinds of outlets. So if a local filmmaker in Milwaukee had a good story, I'd be part of it in a second.
Tanya Fischer
#20. That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
Bobby Fischer
#21. Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.
Bobby Fischer
#22. I don't know why they call it life, it's just a moment with memories.
Tibor Fischer
#23. I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
Bobby Fischer
#24. If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
Bobby Fischer
#26. It's funny, ma'am, how sometimes you're so sarcastic but it doesn't sting."
"Because of my dimples. Dimples are a get-out-of-jail-free card
Dean Koontz
#27. It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
#28. Caleb looked at her lips. "Your eyes are incredible."
"O-kay." Jocelyn had to concentrate not to lean forward to touch her mouth to his.
"Really amazing."
He's right there and his lips are so full, so luscious, so close.
And far too tempting to pass up.
Patricia W. Fischer
#29. Spiritual awakening is exactly dropping the sense of one's narrow separateness; it is essentially and profoundly altruistic.
Norman Fischer
#30. It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer
Mikhail Tal
#31. A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.
Joschka Fischer
#32. I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.
Bobby Fischer
#33. To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.
Quoted in "Paul Newman's Road To Glory", interview with Paul Fischer, Film Monthly (2002-07-01)
Paul Newman
#35. As an author, I realise, you're on your own. You have to do everything you can to help The Book. If I make sure people know it's out there, they can make up their own minds whether they want to read it.
Tibor Fischer
#36. That's really specific, ma'am. For a prediction, I mean."
"It's not a prediction."
"It's not? Then what is it?"
"It's what is.
Dean Koontz
#37. You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do.
Dean Koontz
#38. [God is] the One who in absolute freedom loves absolutely.
Austin Fischer
#39. What is the secret of Stalin's unquestioned strength? He controls every wheel and screw of the party machine, which is the source of authority and power in the Soviet Union.
Louis Fischer
#40. I look at her and ask, flat out, "What's up?" Girl talk, of course, for, Back off my man, biotch.
Rusty Fischer
#41. Book-writing is always much easier in other people's lives.
Tibor Fischer
#43. Psychology and economics are Stalin's favorable winds. He is also the party 'boss.' But he is, in addition, the Soviet Union's most striking personality.
Louis Fischer
#44. He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
Graham Greene
#45. Even those with unspendable fortunes only have one mind, one mouth, two ears, two eyes and one pleasure station. There's only so much fun you can take.
Tibor Fischer
#46. There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
Bobby Fischer
#47. CAPM pioneer Bill Sharpe remarked, "I have concluded that I may never see an empirical result that will convince me that it disconfirms any theory," which reiterated Fischer Black's (1993) feeling, "I find theory to be far more powerful than data.
Eric G. Falkenstein
#48. Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
Bobby Fischer
#49. As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.
Jenna Fischer
#50. It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
Gaines Adams
#51. The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
#52. You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.
Bobby Fischer
#53. Well, I'm not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn't interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they're a phony, I just don't bother with them, that's
all.
Bobby Fischer
#54. Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
Urs Fischer
#55. Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times
and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me.
Bobby Fischer
#56. Just try it, he murmurs, reaching over to cover my hand gently.
And I think, Whoa, that's never happened before!
Then: Is he just doing that because he thinks Wyatt is interested?
And, finally, this: Who the hell cares?!
Rusty Fischer
#57. It's a long time until the next election, but it starts now. And if you truly want to see things change in the direction that our country is headed, you have to stay involved. You cannot quit now.
Deb Fischer
#58. I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.
Jenna Fischer
#59. As Olafsson showed me, White can win ... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
Bobby Fischer
#60. Nobody has single-handedly done more for the U.S. than me.
Bobby Fischer
#61. Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.
Martin H. Fischer
#62. I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
Bobby Fischer
#63. I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
Urs Fischer
#64. Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. ... We have incentivized fornication rather than marriage, and it's no wonder we are now awash in the disastrous social consequences of people who rut like rabbits.
Bryan Fischer
#65. There's prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country.
Tibor Fischer
#66. Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.
Urs Fischer
#67. You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.
Jenna Fischer
#69. You don't really have to go anywhere in particular in New York City to have a good time. In every part of town, there's always something going on. It helps to know people there, too, because everything changes so fast, and they will be able to point out what's hot this month.
Tibor Fischer
#70. Let's forget the reunification, let's just shut up and don't talk about that topic for the next 20 years.
Joschka Fischer
#71. The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?
Bobby Fischer
#73. Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
Bobby Fischer
#74. Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.
Tibor Fischer
#75. Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you probably didn't know you were in school with.
Jenna Fischer
#76. I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
Bobby Fischer
#77. It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that if it's enjoyable it can't possibly be literature.
Tibor Fischer
#78. I don't recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head. The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent's position and can attack weaknesses in his game.
Bobby Fischer
#79. I got divorced, after having been married for almost eight years. That is a very life-altering experience. There's a period of time that you go through, where you're having to adjust to knowing yourself and knowing who you are from being a couple to being an individual again.
Jenna Fischer
#80. She's great company; she plays a mean hand of gin; and I like holding her hand almost as much as yours. What more do I need?
Libby Fischer Hellmann
#81. As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do want to get out of there quickly.
Tibor Fischer
#82. And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
#83. Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.
Herbie Hancock
#84. It is time, I suggest, to stop the practice of allowing Muslims to serve in the U.S. military. The reason is simple: the more devout a Muslim is, the more of a threat he is to national security.
Bryan Fischer
#86. I believe we best say yes to God's glory and sovereignty by saying no to Calvinism.
Austin Fischer
#87. Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.
Martin H. Fischer
#88. Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
#89. Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.
Tibor Fischer
#90. I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.
Bobby Fischer
#91. Well, now that I have a baby, I'm that person who's looking for all the parks. I'm also the person who lost their coat because I was juggling so many items. So I'm that person: I lost my coat, I lost my scarf, and it's cold now.
Jenna Fischer
#92. Each and every one of us has their own weirdness, it's just that it's more obvious with some people than others.
Christoph Fischer
#93. The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
Bobby Fischer
#95. I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about.
Tibor Fischer
#96. It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
Bobby Fischer
#97. No misery to be saved from . . . So evil is necessary, in order to the highest happiness of the creature, and the completeness of that communication of God, for which he made the world; because the creature's
Austin Fischer
#98. Why is erasing desire seen as so important? If the subjugation of the self is the point of the self what's the point in having a self? It's like someone handing you a leaflet which says throw this leaflet away.
Tibor Fischer
#100. First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.
Martin H. Fischer
