Nigel Short (Nigel David Short) Quotes

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game.

Nigel Short

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• 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
  • People
  • Job
  • Meaning

• Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • World
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Me
  • Stop

• I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Free
  • Sweet
  • Dairy

• In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Problem
  • Suffering

• The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Change
  • Acceptance
  • Step

• There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Important
  • Business
  • Alone

• My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?

  

  Wade Boggs
  • God
  • Monday
  • Playoffs

• When annual elections end, there slavery begins.

  

  John Adams
  • Slavery

• I wear glasses because I need them; I don't wear them to be the fashion victim, I have to have them because I have a stigma in one eye and I'm blind in another. But I make it fun, I make it acceptable to fit in society; I've always worn crazy, goofy glasses, it's just what I do. This is who I am. Love me or leave me.

  

  Anastacia
  • Fun
  • Society
  • Fashion

• The power of Haitian heritage and the strength of the Haitian people is tremendous. And Haiti holds a unique and rich role in the history of African Americans.

  

  Cheryl Mills
  • People
  • Power
  • History

• I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist.' And then they'd walk away real quickly.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Up
  • Long
  • Real

• If I had been thrown out into a radio tour when I was 18, or 17, and given a record deal, I don't think... it would have been a total nightmare.

  

  Maren Morris

• But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction.

  

  Cliff Stearns
  • Law

• Young Joel Benenson supported - well, I - you know, look, I supported Bobby Kennedy, not Eugene McCarthy in '68. I mean, that's where I landed.

  

  Joel Benenson

• As a musician myself, I wouldn't be confident if I received some other composers' song, because I choose to express myself through the music that I make.

  

  G-Dragon
  • Music
  • Song

• Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

  

  Alexander Payne
  • Up
  • American
  • True

• When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.

  

  Alexander Payne
  • Movie
  • Soul

• Looking at them the metaphysical paintings of De Chirico, c. 1919 I had the sense of rediscovering something I had always known, just as when some event already seen opens up to us a whole realm of our own dream world, one that we have failed to see or comprehend, owing to a kind of censorship.

  

  Max Ernst
  • Up
  • World
  • Dream

• Stereotyped as convention-going, pocket-protector-wearing, chess-playing, infrequently-showering types, nerds are one of our society's most ridiculed groups. And, for a university with an international reputation as a bastion of intellectualism, Harvard is startlingly devoid of them.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Society
  • Chess

• The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin.

  

  Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda
  • Air
  • Created
  • Structure

• Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.

  

  Gerald Abrahams
  • Chess
  • Master
  • Mistress

• For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Fall

• Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game.

  

  Nigel Short
  • Chess
  • Structure
  • Pawn