Nigel Short (Nigel David Short) Quotes

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

Nigel Short

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• When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Think
  • Disappear

• I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Kids
  • Enjoy
  • Working

• I don't marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.

  

  Valerie June
  • Just
  • Go
  • Marry

• If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Want
  • You
  • Going

• Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Door
  • Speed

• I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Life
  • Women
  • Single

• After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• I was born behind the Iron Curtain, and I remember heated discussions about large-scale terra-forming projects, such as reversing the direction of the river Ob or putting up large reflectors into space to heat up Siberia.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Space

• One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • World
  • Man
  • Respect

• A man can never dream these kinds of thingsEspecially when she came and spread her wingsWhispered in my ear the things I'd likeThen she flew away into the night.

  

  Liam Gallagher Oasis
  • She
  • Dream
  • Night

• Through this dread shape the suffering ages look; Time's tragedy is in the aching stoop; Through this dread shape humanity betrayed, Plundered, profaned, and disinherited, Cries protest to the Powers that made the world. A protest that is also a prophecy.

  

  Edwin Markham
  • Time
  • World
  • Humanity

• My brothers came home with country, jazz, everything... it was always very normal to me to make any type of music. It was possible to fuse all the sounds, so it never sounded confusing to me to mix jazz and dubstep.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Music
  • Country
  • Home

• I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Style

• My prayer for you, Donald Trump, would be for you to have an opportunity to experience the delight and the joy of what oneness truly is. And if you can have that in your life, if you could feel that feeling in your life, then my prayer would be that your division and your separation, your attack, would dissolve with that boundary.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Opportunity

• You know you don't have to be the most popular kid in the school to have people acknowledge your presence.

  

  Jeanne Phillips
  • People
  • School
  • Popular

• At this time, the only thing that would get me back in the ring is something that would positively impact those in need. If selling out another major event would allow me to bring a ship full of supplies to hand out to those in need, I'd say that would be very significant.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Time
  • Hand

• I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books.

  

  Jamie Campbell Bower

• I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Life
  • Great
  • Done

• They will accuse me of stealing from my father. They already stand in baited judgement, waiting for my first move, waiting to dump their loads of garbage on me.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Father
  • Waiting

• You get into theological education and you're busy marking papers and getting into administration in raising funds and doing all the things that are part of life, but here we were talking about important theological, historical, gospel related, biblically centered things hour after hour after hour.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Education

• When I try to be funny, it always makes me more nervous that I'm trying too hard, and then my brain that already thinks too much jumps into hyper drive, and I light-speed start talking 'Star Trek' to someone who's talking 'Star Wars.' Anyway, it doesn't work out usually when I 'try' to be funny.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Funny

• I had enough brain to live a stupid life.

  

  Faina Ranevskaya
  • Life
  • Live
  • Brain

• I believe the brain is like a muscle - like any other it can be improved.

  

  Ivan Lendl
  • Brain
  • Muscle
  • Improved

• I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

  

  Nigel Short
  • Brain
  • Chess
  • Blitz