Bent Larsen Quotes

Had I not played the Sicilian with Black I could have saved myself the trouble of studying for more than 20 years all the more popular lines of this opening, which comprise probably more than 25 percent of all published opening theory!

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• I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • Two

• Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Mind
  • Nature

• I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Friends
  • Beautiful

• Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Character
  • Today
  • Effort

• Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Race
  • Neither
  • Inferior

• As far as the UFC, if they offer us a fair deal, then we would be open to fighting in the UFC.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Fighting
  • Open
  • Fair

• They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Heaven
  • Come
  • Angels

• I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.

  

  Maidie Norman
  • Career
  • Thought
  • Nothing

• I've got tons more stuff to do.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Stuff
  • More
  • Got

• In this day the breeze of God is wafted, and His Spirit hath pervaded all things. Such is the outpouring of His grace that the pen is stilled and the tongue is speechless.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • God
  • Day
  • Grace

• With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Imagination
  • Brain
  • Perception

• I don't watch a lot of T.V., and I hardly ever have time to keep up with series, though I do love reruns of old favorites from my childhood like 'Dr. Who', 'The Goodies', and 'Get Smart.'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Up
  • Time
  • Love

• But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Songwriting
  • Line
  • Between

• El hombre no va a ninguna parte. Todo viene al hombre, como el mañana.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

  

  Jessica Savitch

• Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Law

• The Beatles were huge for me, ... I used to jump around the room to the red album, the one with all the early hits on it. It made you feel euphoric. It was a sensation I couldn't get from anything else, whether it was playing football, swimming or even seeing 'Star Wars.'

  

  Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
  • The Beatles
  • Star Wars
  • Euphoric

• Myself and Yorgos Lanthimos, we spoke a little bit and I was at a certain body weight that I was closer to making a statement or defining the character physically by losing weight. There was no justification for him to be emaciated, but I thought, say I was 165, I thought what if I went down to 155 and have him rail-thin? And Yorgos was like, "Well, if he's very thin I think maybe it will speak to some kind of psychological trouble that we want to stay away from," and I was like, "F - -, you're right."

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Character
  • Trouble
  • Justification

• When you're in trouble don't depend on yourself. Don't depend on people. Depend on God.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • People
  • God
  • Trouble

• A kitten gets himself into every kind of trouble.

  

  Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson
  • Trouble
  • Gets
  • Kitten

• Had I not played the Sicilian with Black I could have saved myself the trouble of studying for more than 20 years all the more popular lines of this opening, which comprise probably more than 25 percent of all published opening theory!

  

  Bent Larsen
  • Trouble
  • Theory
  • Comprise