Nigel Short (Nigel David Short) Quotes
If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.Nigel Short
Quotes to Explore
-
But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.
Dana Rohrabacher -
For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
Randeep Hooda -
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
Manuel Puig -
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Nathaniel Branden -
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
We have no other alternative than independence, or the most ignominious and galling servitude. The legions of our enemies thicken on our plains; desolation and death mark their bloody career; whilst the mangled corpses of our countrymen seem to cry out to us as a voice from Heaven.
Samuel Adams
-
The fraction of Americans working in occupations concerned primarily with information has increased from 20 to nearly 50 percent of the work force.
E. O. Wilson -
When annual elections end, there slavery begins.
John Adams -
When the facts of history are written Haile Selassie of Abyssinia will go down as a great coward who ran away from his country to save his skin and left the millions of his countrymen to struggle through a terrible war that he brought upon them because of his political ignorance and his racial disloyalty.
Marcus Garvey -
I love feeling the crispness of fall and the sensuality of spring.
Christopher Meloni -
There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'
Alexander Payne -
His words were simple words enough,And yet he used them so,That what in other mouths was roughIn his seemed musical and low.
James Russell Lowell
-
The call of God is to preach the gospel--namely, the reality of redemption in our Lord Jesus Christ. The one passion of Paul's life was to proclaim the gospel of God. He welcomed heartbreak, disillusionment , and tribulation for only one reason--these things kept him unmovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.
Oswald Chambers -
My personal life may be crowded with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God, and when I stand face to face with God I will discover that through my obedience thousands were blessed. When once God's Redemption comes to the point of obedience in a human soul, it always creates. If I obey Jesus Christ, the Redemption of God will rush through me to other lives, because behind the deed of obedience is the Reality of Almighty God.
Oswald Chambers -
I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.
Ziggy Marley -
Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.
Leonid Hurwicz -
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
Salman Rushdie -
I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in Just William, which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas.
Harry Melling
-
We might be workers, but we are not happy go-lucky jungle bunnies.
Slick Rick -
The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.
Nicholas Royle -
If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.
Nigel Short