Quotes of the day, November 8
Grandmasters decline with age. That's a given. There is nothing special about the age of 40, but age eventually takes its toll. That much is clear. Beyond that it's about how long you can put off the effects and compensate for them. Mistakes will crop in but you try to compensate for them with experience and hard work.
Viswanathan Anand
October 2
Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.
Venus Williams
October 1
When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.
Coco J. Ginger
September 30
I think that 'Prayers' is a really interesting one because we wrote it well before the border crisis was happening, and in that first verse, I was actually writing about the experience of me and my wife's relationship and finding someone who you feel safe with and you relate to and can ponder existence with.
Benji Madden
Good Charlotte
September 29
Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind.
Wes Nisker
September 28
What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
Malorie Blackman