Famous Quotes & Sayings

Viswanathan Anand

In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.

W. C. Fields

Ultimately chess is just chess - not the best thing in the world and not the worst thing in the world, but there is nothing quite like it.

Yuliya Snigir

In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

Wilhelm Steinitz

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

Viktor Korchnoi

Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.

Nick Nelson

In my apartment, I have a region with a chess table. This region wants to be in a den.

Justin Gatlin

I knew Tyson gets out very fast, and Wallace comes on strong at the end. I had to make sure I was patient throughout the whole race. I was pawning, playing chess with the guys.

Anthony Mix

This is like a chess match for me. I'm trying to understand who likes me and who doesn't because they won't tell you. A lot of guys have stats to throw around. Auburn isn't pass-oriented. We have to show up (to scouts) in other ways. I'm not nervous or anything, but there's a lot of anticipation.

Bobby Douglas

It's been a tremendous rivalry. The matches have been tactical matches which is more like a chess match. If they end up in the finals of the Big 12, I think it's going to be a great match. If they end up in the finals of the national tournament I think it's going to be another great match.

Jeff Goldblum

I like a pickled cucumber. A regular cucumber I'm not so interested in.

Compton MacKenzie

You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.

Robbie Amell

Everyone should have cheat days or days off. You need to balance the unhealthy with the healthy.

Richard Hofstadter

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

Richard Benjamin

I always say that you should remake flops, not hits.

Truman Capote

I remember things the way they should have been.

William S. Burroughs

We should exterminate all rational thought.

Vinnie Jones

Egil Olsen should have gone six games ago. He was totally useless. I'd like to give him a right-hander!

Woodrow Wilson

We should not only master questions, but also act upon them, and act definitely.

William Shatner

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

William J. Clinton

People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons.