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 think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.

  

  Lisa Gardner
  • Explore

• [The answer to that, warns Saddam's eldest son, is no.] If they come, ... Sept. 11, which they are crying over and see as a big thing, will be a real picnic for them, Godwilling.

  

  Uday Hussein
  • God
  • Real
  • Son

• It's the difference between having a couple of dates, dating for a few months, or having a marriage and living together for eight years or so. It's easy to look back fondly on the ones that were somewhat short.

  

  Brigid Brannagh
  • Marriage
  • Difference
  • Couple of dates

• My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Life
  • Father
  • Player

• Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Fight
  • Armageddon
  • Holy War

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

  

  Alexander Kotov
  • Chess
  • Pawns
  • Topography