Nigel Short (Nigel David Short) Quotes

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

Nigel Short

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• It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • People
  • Time
  • Feeling

• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Beauty

• I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • Small
  • Growing

• If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Think
  • You
  • Film

• My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Job
  • Kill

• Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Money
  • Want
  • Security

• For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.

  

  Dan Colen
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Amazing

• My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

  

  Abigail Spencer
  • People
  • Why
  • True

• I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Truth

• God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • God

• The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • History
  • Universe
  • Identity

• I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Religious

• All state obligations are against the conscience of a Christian: the oath of allegiance, taxes, law proceedings and military service.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Law
  • Christian
  • Military

• We cannot be a party that nominates someone who refuses to condemn white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan.

  

  Marco Rubio
  • Party

• When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them you will suit each other very well.

  

  Lu Xun
  • Famous

• Shoes are a big thing for me, just because it's hard to find shoes that fit me correctly.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Shoes

• Perhaps Americans should recognize that if they want to keep their privacy, they should ask the federal government to do only the things that the Constitution allows.

  

  Dave Kopel
  • Government
  • Constitution
  • Privacy

• I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Technology
  • Focus
  • Right

• While I can't walk on water, I can certainly wobble on whisky.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • Water

• To ask the hard question is simple, The simple act of the confused will.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Question
  • Simple
  • Confused

• Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Justice
  • Suffering
  • Struggle

• A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

  

  Nigel Short
  • Sacrifice
  • Confused
  • Opponent