Alexander Kotov Quotes

The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

Alexander Kotov

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• When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Think
  • Disappear

• I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Bad
  • Baseball
  • Now

• The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Faith
  • Like
  • Weapons

• The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • People
  • Romantic
  • Surprise

• Mister Cee's a legend, man.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Man
  • Legend
  • Mister

• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
  • Love
  • Child

• I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Kids
  • Enjoy
  • Working

• I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Think
  • Like
  • Half

• I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Fun
  • Know
  • Like

• After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.

  

  Adam Braun
  • World
  • Education
  • Alone

• Real war was the thousands of Chinese refugees dying of cholera in the sealed stockades at Pootung, and the bloody heads of Communist soldiers mounted on pikes along the Bund. In a real war no one knew which side he was on, and there were no flags or commentators or winners. In a real war there were no enemies.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Real
  • War
  • Dying

• Psychiatrists - the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War...

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • War

• The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Red

• Leave a message, don't leave a message. live, die, it's all the same dream.

  

  Ben Elton
  • Live
  • Dream
  • Die

• I have thought long and deeply about the post of Foreign Secretary and have decided to offer it to Peter Carrington who – as I am sure you will agree – will do the job superbly.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Long
  • Job

• I don't see myself as a pop star, just a singer.

  

  Ella Henderson
  • Star

• A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.

  

  Christian Louboutin

• I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

  

  Alexander Payne

• It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

  

  Aristotle
  • Health
  • Wisdom
  • Wealth

• I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• People knew about 110 years of chess history. Nowadays, nobody is able to tell you the name of the world champion of 2000.

  

  Anatoly Karpov
  • People
  • World
  • History

• Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Forget
  • Chess
  • Youngsters

• The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

  

  Alexander Kotov
  • Chess
  • Pawns
  • Topography