Top 64 Rook Quotes
#1. Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so often, few have mastered them thoroughly. They are often of a very difficult nature, and sometimes while apparently very simple they are in reality extremely intricate.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#2. Maisie stepped out and moved as if there were gravity. "Are you coming or what?"
Rook nodded and hefted Steve with him. "You should consider counseling."
"For what?"
"Your God complex.
Erin Kellison
#3. I'd say she's ready, wouldn't you?
The Rook, The Looking Glass Wars
Frank Beddor
#4. Detective work is neither a happy nor a satisfying business, Miss Rook," said Jackaby, settling in as the amber buildings sailed past our window. "Marlowe will understand." "I don't understand at all." Commissioner Marlowe kept his voice low and even as we sat across from him the following morning.
William Ritter
#5. I want to be a guileless rook to discolor the blackness of all crafty human hearts
Munia Khan
#6. I have long-term plans, Rook. And she was never part of them.
J.A. Huss
#7. The preparation for active rook play entails what is called the opening of lines, which largely depends on pawn play, especially on the proper use of levers.
Hans Kmoch
#8. But you - you notice mailboxes and wastebaskets and... and people. One who can see the ordinary is extraordinary indeed, Abigail Rook. - Jackaby
William Ritter
#9. Don't feel too bad" I offered. "I met him face-to-face, and I missed it, too."
"Yes, but no one expected you to be clever Miss Rook."
"Thanks for that," I said
William Ritter
#10. Best autopsy ever," said Rook. "I think I just peed myself a little. Seriously, I did.
Richard Castle
#11. In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.
Howard Staunton
#12. One of our very favorite shows of 2008 was our Slowtrain instore. We drove straight from San Francisco, pulled up to the back of the store, dragged our entire setup inside and played our new album, Rook, start-to-finish - and they let us get away with it.
Jonathan Meiburg
#13. In a rook and pawn ending, the rook must be used aggressively. It must either attack enemy pawns, or give active support to the advance of one of its own pawns to the queening square.
Siegbert Tarrasch
#14. David Copperfield from head to foot! Calls a house a rookery when there's not a rook near it, and takes the birds on trust, because he sees the nests!
Charles Dickens
#15. And for the first time, Gus's tattoo makes sense. Because this ... everything I see ... everything I hear ... everything I feel ... it's epic. Gus. Rook. They do epic.
Kim Holden
#16. I don't care what you people say...we are not using a font that does not have fucking serifs." - Rook Myfanwy Thomas
Daniel O'Malley
#17. Deserve your distrust, but can't you accept I want to help you? Haven't I given you proof?" "The more proof you show me, the closer I have to inspect the fine print." Rook had proven to me where his loyalties lay.
Hailey Edwards
#18. Rook Thomas, you look different somehow."
"Well, I recently got the shit kicked out of me," she said.
"Ah, that would be it then.
Daniel O'Malley
#19. Interested in some spices," said Rook. "I'm just mad about saffron.
Richard Castle
#20. Rook cocked his head. "Harlen would want me to give you more time."
"I could punch you again, even while being proxied," she offered. "Would that satisfy you?"
"And into the Scrape we go," he said.
Erin Kellison
#22. First, how to sac my queen, then rook, then bishop, then knight, then pawns.
Mikhail Tal
#23. I have ceased concerning myself with how things look to others, Abigail Rook. I suggest you do the same. In my experience, others are generally wrong.
William Ritter
#24. Then again, if you opinions on women prevent me from carrying out my work, then I would be more than happy to suggest a place for you to stuff them... You're the bos... but YOU seem to be the brains. It's Abigail Rook, yes? Mind if I call you Abbie? Lovely. - Nellie
William Ritter
#25. Whatever was going on with Rook and Coll officially didn't matter anymore. They'd just have to rot in prison by themselves. He'd join them next time.
Erin Kellison
#26. The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.
Howard Staunton
#27. Rook, I should think it obvious." He smiled broadly. "I'm famously important.
William Ritter
#28. Sometimes, all company forsaking,
They settle to a game of chess
And, leaning on a table, guess
What move the other may be making,
And Lensky with a dreamy look,
Allows his pawn to take his rook.
Alexander Pushkin
#29. Rook asked, "Did you really stab him with an icicle?"
When she nodded, he said, "Please tell me you said FREEZE."
Richard Castle
Heat Rises
Richard Castle
#30. I flicked over his rook, his bishop, and protected my queen.
I mouth, Don't fuck with with me. These five people mean more to me than words can express. I've never once felt like I had a real family.
But with them-I know I do.
Becca Ritchie
#31. I have also heard that GM Oscar Panno said that -whenever you have to make a rook move and both rooks are available for said move- you should evaluate which rook to move and, once you have made up your mind ... MOVE THE OTHER ONE!!!
Oscar Panno
#32. It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the centre and, in addition, to the opening of a file for the rook.
Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
#33. 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
#34. For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.
Mervyn Peake
#35. It was better than the fantasy, Rook. I'd just like you to know that.
J.A. Huss
#36. When the game begins, let your rook remain in its position as the knight and the bishop advance to occupy the empty squares created by the moved pawns.
William Pearson
#37. Rook. You fit me. When I saw you crouching in that stairwell last week I felt like I knew you. You stopped me dead in my tracks, you wiped my mind.
J.A. Huss
#38. I found a hat." "Your mind is both fascinating and infuriating, Miss Rook.
William Ritter
#39. Is it...Richard Frederic?"
"No, and I am not going to--"
"Russell Francis?"
"No. You're being--"
"Rumpelstiltskin Finnegan?"
Jackaby sighed. "Yes, Miss Rook. Rumpelstiltskin. You've found me out. I am the devious imp of the fairy tales.
William Ritter
#40. It's not about knowing. You can never really know someone. It's really about trust.
- Jameson Rook, Heat Rises
Richard Castle
#41. In fact, the name 'rook' derives from ruhk, the Persian word for chariot. Pawns were footsoldiers, bishops were elephants, knights were mounted cavalry, and speeding along at the edges of the board were the swift and deadly chariots.
Matthew Reilly
#42. And when the man Rook had dubbed the unholy spawn off Rahm Emanuel and Gordon Gekko wanted something, "no" came at your own risk.
Richard Castle
#43. I am desperate to get him inside me, but he's slow now. "I might not be able to make many guarantees in this world, Rook," he says as his hand travels down and traces the crease between my legs. "But I will say with one hundred percent certainty that you will come tonight.
J.A. Huss
#44. He's a nightmare," she said.
"I can be, too." Rook answered, his red eyes glowing. "Just try me.
Erin Kellison
#45. I could describe what you look like, but that's not what I see. You are so much more than a body inside a dress Rook. You fit me.
J.A. Huss
#46. With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook - that prissy little virtue, Temperance - for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended.
Geoffrey Wood
#47. Always put the rook behind the pawn ... Except when it is incorrect to do so.
Siegbert Tarrasch
#48. He wrote as if he were the reader. It was also how he kept his writing from becoming too cute, which is to say, about him not the subject. Rook was a journalist but strove to be a storyteller, one who let his subjects speak for themselves and stayed out of their way as much as possible.
Richard Castle
#49. Like this, Rook." Ford's soft words vibrate into me. "I like you. I'd like to show you how much, actually. I'm being a gentleman to make life easier for you, but believe me, it's not really in my nature to be so accommodating. I typically just take what I want.
J.A. Huss
#50. Believe me, Rook," he says with a serious expression. "If I was coming on to you, you'd have no trouble recognizing it." He turns and continues walking.
J.A. Huss
#51. Monsters are easy, Miss Rook. They're monsters. But a monster in a suit? That's basically just a wicked man, and a wicked man is a more dangerous thing by far.
William Ritter
#52. Or maybe go sci-fi. You sorta look like that guy who roamed outer space everybody's so crazy about."
"Malcolm Reynolds?" asked Rook.
Richard Castle
#53. A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.
Howard Staunton
#54. If I am a pawn in someone else's chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being shoved at some rook. I'll play my part, damn it, but I want the courtesy of being asked for my consent!
Thomm Quackenbush
#55. Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.
Paul Keres
#56. I'm beginning to think a dictionary would have been a far more advantageous birthday gift for you."
"More advantageous than being eaten alive by a giant, carnivorous bunny? Yes, most things fall in that category, I think.
William Ritter
#57. It's not about the treasure - it's about the hunt. - Abigail
William Ritter
#58. Move, Kit. I want to get a closer look at that bust."
To Kit, bust only meant one thing, but since the only breasts in the room belonged to Ty's sister, he stepped aside with alacrity.
Cassandra Clare
#59. I don't run to add days to my life, I run to add life to my days.
Ronald Rook
#60. The office on the other end of the comm was squawking at him. Bodhi ignored it.
"Rogue One," he declared, "pulling away!
Alexander Freed
#61. Pavel. The pale man. The vampire. We talked. He didn't murder me horribly, no thanks to you. You were chasing after children at the time. - Abigail, to Jackaby
William Ritter
#62. If you have something hot, you keep your mouth shut, your eyes open, and your secrets buried.
Richard Castle
#63. Red Rum is the greatest thing on four legs since Pegasus.
Jean Rook
#64. Kit had never had any siblings, never had a mother, had only had Johnny. His father. His father who had died, and he didn't think had ever looked the way Ty looked now, as if the possibility of something happening to Livvy was enough to break him inside.
Cassandra Clare
