Emanuel Lasker Quotes
Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
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The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
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I'm looking for things where, like with 'Ten,' I don't look like me, and I'm playing something a bit different. I'm just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I've saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging.
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I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
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Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.
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When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.
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Crops failed; wealth took a flight; house, treasure, land, Slipped from my hold-thus plenty comes and goes.One friend I had, but he too loosed his hand (Or was it I?) the year I met with Rose.
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I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet. Anybody who could possibly call himself a poet just cannot be a poet.
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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
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Aid the sick; thank the Divine Power for the state of equilibrium you are able to conserve.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.
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Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.
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Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.
