We Play Chess Not Checkers Quotes

#1. There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

George Stillman Hillard

#2. I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.

Mark E. Smith

#3. I have a personal ritual. Just like 10 minutes before a show, I'll open a beer, just so it feels like I've just arrived at a party. I have a few sips, then we go on stage.

Ed Robertson

#4. People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.

Paul David Tripp

#5. It was like a thousand beautiful voices singing to drown out a million more screaming.

Robert Brockway

#6. Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Plautus

#7. I had Courtney Love's left bosom out of her dress on my plate in front of me. It was extraordinary. I didn't know where to look.

Hugh Grant

#8. If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.

Mark Miller

#9. Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

Voltaire

#10. Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people.

Bryant McGill

#11. It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.

Courtney Love

#12. Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night.

Donna Rice

#13. i am awake only in what i love & desire to the point of terror -- everything else is just shrouded furniture, quotidian anaesthesia, shit-for-brains, sub-reptilian ennui of totalitarian regimes, banal censorship & useless pain ...

Hakim Bey