Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
Garry Kasparov -
I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.
Garry Kasparov -
There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.
Rainn Wilson -
I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
Maeve Binchy -
Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
V. E. Schwab
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
Jackson Browne -
Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.
Magnus Carlsen -
'I have no fear of war,' said Arthur Stuart. 'That’s when kings get to show their mettle.''You’re thinking of chess,' said Margaret. 'In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.'
Orson Scott Card -
In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.
Garry Kasparov -
In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.
Garry Kasparov
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I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.
Alexander Alekhine -
I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.
Marcel Duchamp -
It would be three-dimensional chess with a million billion squares and a million pieces, and with the rules changing ever move.
Clifford D. Simak -
Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
Max Euwe -
Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.
Eric Bogosian -
Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
Bobby Fischer
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The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.
Brassaï -
Congressional staff members do have a considerable amount of responsibility. But in my experience, the loyalty of the vast majority of staffers to their bosses leads them to be honest brokers of information for the members they work for.
John Harwood -
Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
Albert Einstein -
Jason decided not to add that the best way to get him to focus on something was to tell him not to think about it.
Brandon Mull -
As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
D. B. Sweeney -
Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.
Arthur Conan Doyle