Quotes About Paul Morphy

#1. Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.

Andrew Soltis

#2. An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It's this in-between that I'm calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one. That is the realm of the artist.

Federico Fellini

#3. The problem is capitalism. The problem is that in order to sell seven billion people on the necessity of globalisation, we've created a moral universe where people who do not work to create profit are considered less than human, and used as surplus labour to drive down the cost of wages.

Laurie Penny

#4. It wasn't a good fake smile. You could always tell when she was faking, because she didn't look friendly; she looked like she was going to throw up.

Rick Yancey

#5. You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.

Philip Massinger

#6. Be not selfish in your doings: pass it on.

Bob Marley

#7. The training program wasn't a survival course, but sometimes a person came through who put the horrors of 41 into perspective.

Michael Lewis

#8. Cameras in court are just messengers; don't blame them, blame the participants.

Greta Van Susteren

#9. Help your pieces so they can help you

Paul Morphy

#10. I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away.

Paul Morphy

#11. Despair is the only genuine atheism.

Jean Paul

#12. Good god, Jaye was so angry. Dixon

Lynn Kelling

#13. I like to think of myself as the Rutger Hauer of this show Star Trek: The Next Generation. But then I like to think of myself as Rutger Hauer in real life: strikingly handsome, irresistible to women, an intergalactic enigma.

Brent Spiner

#14. Chess is eminently and emphatically the philospher's game.

Paul Morphy

#15. The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.

Paul Morphy

#16. Checkers is for tramps

Paul Morphy

#17. Everything is an art, which must be mastered.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. A living. Without Jonny, Student almost fell to pieces.

Richard Branson

#19. The one place where I'm allowed to rebel, and the one place where I'm allowed to not worry about censoring myself is my music.

Taylor Swift

#20. Programming is the act of installing internal, pre-established reactions to external stimuli so that a person will automatically react in a predetermined manner to things like an auditory, visual or tactile signal or perform a specific set of actions according to a date and/or time.

Alison Miller

#21. If Pete Simmons had been twenty, he might have asked a lot of bullshit questions that didn't matter.

Stephen King