Soltis Quotes

#1. I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake.

Dorothea Benton Frank

#2. I'm not a nerd, I play one on TV.

Curtis Armstrong

#3. The past cannot change what is to come. The work that you do each and every day is the only true way to improve and prepare yourself for what is to come. You cannot change the past, but you can influence the future by what you do today. -

John Wooden

#4. It didn't matter what anyone else saw in me. For the first time, I felt like I was seeing myself.

Lisa Brown Roberts

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

Andrew Soltis

#6. If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.

Robert M. Pirsig

#7. a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm

Michael Cunningham

#8. You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time.

Yves Behar

#9. You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer

Andrew Soltis

#10. Chess is 99 percent calculation.

Andrew Soltis

#11. Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.

John Kennedy Toole

#12. At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.

Joseph Kanon

#13. You can know who a person is simply by staring into their eyes.

Shiloh Walker

#14. Reading Austen is a frickin' mine field.

Karen Joy Fowler

#15. Who indeed will set bounds to human ingenuity? Who will assert that everything in the universe capable of being perceived is already discovered and known?

Galileo Galilei

#16. If I, in some small way can help people to see that there is this huge, incredible life on the other side of addiction, you know, I will feel accomplished in my job.

Michael Botticelli

#17. When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else?

George McGovern

#18. Chess is a game of bad moves.

Andrew Soltis

#19. It seems like we wake up and it's a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, 'What the hell am I doing?'

Steven Wright

#20. Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow Black an excellent game.

Andrew Soltis