Wilhelm Steinitz Quotes
Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
Randy Pausch
No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
Dane Cook
When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.
Edmund Hillary
If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
Yann Martel
America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.
Hank Johnson
America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.
Barack Obama
I know the old ways. There’s nothing evil there, only strange, and not even strange when you know it.
Tanith Lee
I decline the election. - It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.
Edmund Burke
But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six-the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.
John Adams
We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.
Gary Rossington
Lynyrd Skynyrd
I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.
Emmanuelle Beart
I work very hard at relationships. I've done the thing of being home. I worked all day and came home and did all the stuff at home that a woman is supposed to do, the cooking and the entertaining. I'm a perfectionist, and, besides, I loved all those things.
Jacqueline Bisset
People who go to concerts hear Beethoven's symphonies hundreds of times, but 'Star Trek' is recorded, so it's not played all the time.
David Newman
The most I like about cooking is eating what someone else has cooked.
Octavia Spencer
Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun.
Max von Sydow
Teenage years are hard. And, having taught high school for a number of years, I think they're particularly hard on teenage girls. The most self-conscious human beings on the planet are teenage girls.
Rob Thomas
Matchbox Twenty
If you see a better world, you're morally obligated to create it
Genevieve Bell
Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.
Wilhelm Steinitz
