Timman Quotes

#1. Playing black, I put great stake in the Ruy Lopez: I liked it, feel it, and understand it; in matches with Hjartarson and Timman it served me well. - on preparing for World Championship versus Garry Kasparov

Anatoly Karpov

#2. I am still full of ambition.

Jan Timman

#3. The best reason to abolish it, in my opinion, is that everyone should deal with his time in the best way; there is no good reason why you should get half a minute extra with each move, except that it's a bit easier for the arbiter.

Jan Timman

#4. No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.

Edwidge Danticat

#5. So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#6. The more games I will play, the faster I will be back on a top spot in the world rankings.

Jan Timman

#7. When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age ...

Jan Timman

#8. Some studies make such a deep impression on you that they stay etched in your memory forever.

Jan Timman

#9. I see it, Jack. Your muse is back. The thing that gave you passion, tormented you, and haunted you is back. You're reeling in ecstasy and dread. It's something you want, but can't ever have. And the one that brings the pain is pure, white as snow ... and standing in front of you.

H.M. Ward

#10. I went because I was interested in the alchemy of issues.

Joan Didion

#11. Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half

Jan Timman

#12. He who walks straight rarely falls.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#13. I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.

LZ Granderson

#14. Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

James F. Cooper

#15. But I won't judge you if you don't judge me

Morgan Parker

#16. Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.

Sol LeWitt

#17. She was emotionally retarded having no sense of humour, cold and no people skills. She was like her mother was obsessed by appearances and wealth and longed to get married to escape from home.

Annette J. Dunlea