Ooponent Quotes

#1. Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.

Bobby Fischer

#2. Welcome to the Carnival of Life, where dreams are a reality and reality is dreams gone mad.

L. Scott Ward

#3. But their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.

Ayn Rand

#4. Sometimes language can't even read the music of meaning.

David Mitchell

#5. Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.

Flea

#6. Philosophers have argued about the strongest emotion known to man. Some say 'love', others 'hate', others 'fear'. I am disposed to put 'curiosity' on a level, at least, with these august sensations, just mere simple inquisitiveness.

E.F. Benson

#7. A juggler's skill hath been long years alearning.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#8. It is a rare man who can prevail in the face of comfort. Freedom is fragile and elusive, for rarely does the appreciation of it exceed the pleasure of being able to tell others what to do. There is but one tick on the accuracy scale between 'optimism' and 'denial.'

Terry Rossio

#9. My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'

Al Franken

#10. What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.

J. B. Smoove

#11. Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.

Jackie Jackson

#12. Again there was silence - a silence as of consummated Evil brooding above its unnamable triumph.

H.P. Lovecraft

#13. I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

Eric Burdon

#14. When faced with a seemingly insurmountable problem... your only option is to act swiftly, some might even say irrationally. Removing the most dangerous elements first... and methodically attacking each subsequent challenge in a separate, but deliberate manner.

Jeph Loeb

#15. All are nothing but flowers in a flowering universe.

Soen Nakagawa

#16. Your work is both good and original but the part which is original is not good and the part which is good is not original!

Samuel Johnson