David Bronstein Quotes

There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'.

David Bronstein

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• I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Brother

• Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Home
  • Thought
  • Playing

• The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Game

• I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Time
  • Home
  • House

• Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Want
  • Tomorrow
  • Possible

• The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • War
  • Understanding
  • Danger

• My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Night

• I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Like

• Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Contemporary

• The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Men
  • Live

• I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Long
  • Three
  • Radio

• True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • People
  • True
  • Guilt

• People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Me
  • Husband

• I want to bring us together as a nation to recognize the humanity and support the potential of all of our people.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Together
  • Support

• I'm the world's greatest fan of your President Ronald Reagan, as you know. I think he's done terrific things and I think that in his recent speech, the keynote that he struck, that America is a confident leader of the free world, is the right one and I'm absolutely delighted at the way in which confidence had returned to the United States.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • World
  • Done
  • America

• J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence.

  

  Anatole France

• The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas.

  

  Alan Moore
  • World
  • Important
  • Mind

• Always stay true to who you are - barriers can and will be broken!

  

  Halima Aden
  • True
  • Always
  • Broken

• Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect.....Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Riches
  • Fever

• I believe becoming an adult isn't a good thing for a guy. I think that guys should not forget about its youthful soul. So I want to say that I still have a heart of a baby or an elementary school kid.

  

  Daesung
  • Good
  • Believe
  • School

• There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'.

  

  David Bronstein
  • Heart
  • Gambit
  • Chess Player