Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Quotes

It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.

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• Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Poverty
  • Wealth
  • Ultimate

• We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Guidance
  • Professor

• I'm blind without my glasses.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Blind
  • Without
  • Glasses

• I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Death
  • Know

• I think Eminem should use Auto-Tune.

  

  T-Pain
  • Think
  • Should
  • I Think

• I, marry? Oh, I could never bring myself to do it. I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, 'That's a pretty little thing,' after I had finished a picture.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Fear

• I thought I should be a fool to allow work to interfere with a delight in the passing moment that I might never enjoy again so fully.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Work
  • Fool

• No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

• The people considered the most in need of protection were women and children. The sex considered most disposable was men – or males....

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• There was a saying of the peasants-the rat cannot call the cat to account. But it was also true that if the moon moves but slowly, still it crosses the city.

  

  Andre Norton
  • True
  • City
  • Moon

• I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Men
  • Live
  • Country

• These days, all we hear about is that the industry is in trouble. Everybody is so scared, but our mission statement is having no fear.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Fear

• I love to remember the World Trade Centre walk, but it should not define me.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • World
  • Remember

• I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • Long
  • Mirror
  • Partner

• 'Up' was the best. The first 10 minutes of that movie made me weep. It was so well done... even if that montage was all I'd seen, just as a short film, that was great. That was my favorite thing of the year.

  

  Charlyne Yi
  • Up
  • Great
  • Done

• Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.

  

  Charles Lyell
  • High

• The thing I love about science is finding out something new and different.

  

  Peter C. Doherty
  • Different
  • Science

• Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.

  

  Bootsy Collins
  • Live
  • Trying

• I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Children
  • Reading

• Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.

  

  Donnie Yen
  • Wish
  • Kiss

• I wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.

  

  Dolores Huerta
  • People
  • Free
  • Wish

• In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Philosophy
  • Studies
  • Astronomy

• It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.

  

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
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