Pinning Ceremony Quotes

#1. We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition unrelated to its subject. Just as there is no such thing as 'artistic' art, so there is no such thing as 'positional' chess.

Samuel Reshevsky

#2. Paranoia
because why should the conspiracy theorists get to have all the fun?

Jim Butcher

#3. In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion is for opera, but when I'm in the car, I listen to everything.

Andrea Bocelli

#4. Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#5. The idea of a priori moral judgements ('It is morally wrong to inflict gratuitous pain') is completely acceptable to the vast majority of human beings. Only a few philosophers would disagree.

William Boyd

#6. The web is at a really important turning point right now. Up until recently, the default on the web has been that most things aren't social and most things don't use your real identity. We're building toward a web where the default is social.

Mark Zuckerberg

#7. Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.

Richard Bach

#8. Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.

B.B. King

#9. I swear by the self-assurance with which elderly men sitting in public tilt sideways to allow the gas to escape loudly.

Pawan Mishra

#10. I only take Viagra when I'm with more than one woman.

Jack Nicholson

#11. Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.

Gautam Adani

#12. I was born on Halloween, and until I was eight years old my parents had me convinced that the candy people gave out when I knocked on their doors was birthday presents.

Ransom Riggs

#13. I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.

Donald Sutherland