Garry Kasparov Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
-
Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
-
I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.
-
When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.'
-
For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
-
What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.
-
I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.
-
My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
-
The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
-
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
-
I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.
-
Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
-
In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
-
On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.
-
For me, I've been known as a very well-rounded fighter, and I think that's really important, that you're well rounded and comfortable in every situation that a fight can go. A lot of people focus on just one discipline, and when they get out of that, they're in a difficult position.
-
All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
-
One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
-
The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
-
If you're great, that means you're freaked out that the next day you're not going to be great. You keep trying.
-
For me, trying to connect our team together is so important. I know we'll play really well when our team gets really tight. So I want to make sure I connect with the players so that I can help them be at their best.
-
I don't think anybody really wants to know their limits.
-
I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.
-
The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment.
-
I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.
Garry Kasparov
