Bent Larsen Quotes

A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast, of course, to the fear-and-laziness draws.

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• Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Men
  • Live
  • Sympathy

• I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • World
  • Good
  • Party

• When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Price
  • Willing
  • Engage

• I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Drama
  • Skills
  • Group

• I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Teach
  • Some

• I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Long
  • Win
  • Argument

• The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.

  

  Wael Ghonim
  • Country
  • History
  • Day

• We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.

  

  Larry Page
  • Think
  • Best
  • Evil

• I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Family
  • Years
  • Chinese

• I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.

  

  Nelly
  • Good
  • Work
  • Sometimes

• Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Human
  • Right
  • Problems

• If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Life
  • Laughing
  • Ifs

• All I'm doing is photographing. When I was working on The Animals, I was working on a lot of other things too. I kept going to the zoo because things were going on in certain pictures. It wasn't a project.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Animal
  • Certain
  • Projects

• We had an electronic head and arm for Threepio, and I manipulated the mechanism with a joystick. But it wasn't working. The propman said, 'Give me fifteen minutes.' We all went to get coffee, and when we came back, Threepio's head turned perfectly and his arm moved naturally. I looked up and realized that the prop man had a fishing pole with a fine nylon string attached to Threepio's arm. He had rigged another string around the head, which Chewbacca was holding. As Chewie moved his hands, Threepio's head turned!

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Head
  • Arm
  • Electronic

• Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Believe
  • Strange
  • Scene

• All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.

  

  Nellie Fox
  • Games
  • Wells

• A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast, of course, to the fear-and-laziness draws.

  

  Bent Larsen
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  • Draw