Howard Staunton Quotes
Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.Howard Staunton
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
Mal Peet -
I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
Ma Jian -
Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
Felix Dennis -
Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.
Patrick Carman -
Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
J. P. Morgan -
The Louvre for me is a wonderful experience. Because it continues; it didn't get cut off. It was actually a continuous involvement all the way, and a lot of people have come and gone, come and gone; but I'm still here.
I. M. Pei
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I can handle coming fifth as long as I know I've given my all out there and have no regrets.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.
Imre Kertesz -
Globalization is a fact of economic life.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari -
Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?
Oliver Tambo -
Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.
Barry Zito -
I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.
Ingrid Newkirk
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If there is a true secret to the universe, it is this...these first few seconds of warmth and entry and complete acceptance by one’s beloved.
Dan Simmons -
Lois: You're never gonna meet anyone hanging around here with the tactical nuclear family.
Alison Bechdel -
I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.
Ludwig Quidde -
It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.
Win Butler -
In 'Kill Rock n' Roll,' the choruses came about at the moment I was listening to a lot of the Supremes, and if you listen to that part, you can hear a melody and a harmony there that's not too far away from what the Supremes would probably be doing, but there's heavy guitars in the back.
Daron Malakian System Of A Down -
I agree with my mother that having children removes a layer of skin that you never grow back.
Katherine Kelly
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For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U.
Jose Manuel Barroso -
I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.
Amy Adams -
Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
Alice Cooper -
We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.
James Young Styx -
A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran's nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.
Joe Biden -
Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.
Howard Staunton