Russian Chess Quotes

#1. Neither I nor the four flippers of the sea-bear of the Boreal ocean have been able to solve the riddle of life.

Comte De Lautreamont

#2. I [dad] spent hours on the phone. Do you know with whom?'
'One of those psychic hotlines?' Dad gritted his teeth. 'If only ...

Rachel Hawkins

#3. Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

#4. Vengeance was a terrible prison.

Karina Halle

#5. Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed.

Henry MacKenzie

#6. My sense of time seems to be melting, like a kid's snowman in a January thaw.

Stephen King

#7. The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better.

Carroll Shelby

#8. The federal government has made explicit and implicit promises to millions of people, but has put no money aside in order to keep those promises. Some of you may wonder where Bernie Madoff got the idea for his Ponzi scheme. Clearly he was studying federal entitlement policy.

John C. Goodman

#9. I don't like disappointing people. Some would say that this is "codependent behavior", which I have discovered is a term that explains how most everyone acts all the time, unless one is a sociopath or a Russian computer that plays chess.

Amy Poehler

#10. I was really amazed when I started hearing 'Songbird' on the radio. I couldn't believe that the record company promotion department had actually convinced radio music directors to play it -because there wasn't anything like it on the radio at the time.

Kenny G

#11. How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.

Mike Huckabee

#12. Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess is supposed to be

Vladimir Nabokov

#13. The system set up by F.I.D.E ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion ... The Russians arranged it that way.

Bobby Fischer

#14. In love we are all fools alike.

John Gay

#15. The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

Aaron Copland

#16. It's always the balance between the individual's subjective experience and the social structural condition. As individuals we have access to more than we've ever had before. Giving up our data seems a small price to pay, especially if, as you say, we don't feel we have anything to hide.

Astra Taylor

#17. But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#18. In the last week I felt her withdrawing. What was once everywhere, an ocean I imagined myself to be drowning in, was now barely deep enough to bathe in. I saw her warmth draining away and I couldn't stop it.

Olivia Sudjic