Boards Quotes - Page 35

• Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

  Bobby Fischer

  Crush, War, Chess Game

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• Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something

  Bobby Fischer

  Trying, Opponents, Chess

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• Chess is like war on a board

  Bobby Fischer

  War, Chess

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• Place the contents of the Chess box in a hat, shake them up vigorously, pour them on the board from a height of two feet, and you get the style of Steinitz

  Henry Bird

  Two, Feet, Style

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• Well, back to the old drawing board.

  Peter Arno

  Cheer, Drawing, Wile E Coyote

  Cartoon caption, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 1941

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• During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?

  Kate Millett

  Depression, Voice, Anecdotes

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.283, University of Illinois Press

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• Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth. It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing.

  Mark Twain

  Sleep, Men, People

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• Maybe life is a board game, but I never get to roll the dice.

  Tim Wynne-Jones

  Games, Dice, Life Is

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• It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around and fall.

  Rodney Mullen

  Fall, Pride, Progress

  "Rodney Mullen Skates Central Park". Interview with Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. November 26, 2012.

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• This was on my vision board. To run out there and be hitting game winners, getting the fans riled up. When they're stomping on the floor yelling 'New York Knicks'—that's a great feeling.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Running, New York, Games

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• Breaking a dream board is almost like breaking up with your girlfriend. You are super shattered at first. But then once you get another dream board, it's all good.

  Shane Dorian

  Dream, Girlfriend, Firsts

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• The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was then riding at anchor, and waiting for its cargo. These filled me with astonishment, which was soon connected with terror, when I was carried on board. I was immediately handled, and tossed up to see if I were sound, by some of the crew; and I was now persuaded that I had gotten into a world of bad spirits, and that they were going to kill me.

  Olaudah Equiano

  Eye, Anchors, Sea

  Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Solomon Northup, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner (2017). “BREAKING THE CHAINS – The Essential & Powerful Narratives that Shook the Roots of Slavery (17 Books in One Volume): Memoirs of Frederick Douglass, Underground Railroad, 12 Years a Slave, Incidents in Life of a Slave Girl, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Running A Thousand Miles for Freedom and many more”, p.1171, e-artnow

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• I'm one of those passengers who arrives at the airport five or six hours early so I can throw back a few drinks and muster up the courage to board the plane. Apparently I'm not alone because I've never been in an empty airport bar. I don't care what time you get there. Even at 8:00 a.m. you have to fight your way to the bar. At that hour, everyone drinks Bloody Marys so no one can tell it's booze- at least until they fall off their chair.

  Bob Newhart

  Fall, Fighting, Airports

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• As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

  DJ Jazzy Jeff

  Levels, Sound, Venues

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• Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.

  Graham Hancock

  Ideas, New Ideas

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• That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.

  Charles Tupper

  Religious, Educational, Book

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• I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.

  Don King

  Doors, Boxing, Kicks

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• I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Wine, Attendance

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.214, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things; for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead; symmetrical but stiff.

  Edward Abbey

  Sports, Butterfly, Example

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

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• The history of humanity is not a hotel where someone can rent a room whenever it suits him; nor is it a vehicle which we board or get out of at random. Our past will be for us a burden beneath which we can only collapse for as long as we refuse to understand the present and fight for a better future. Only then — but from that moment on — will the burden become a blessing, that is, a weapon in the battle for freedom.

  Hannah Arendt

  Fighting, Blessing, Past

  "The Jewish Writings".

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• I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if cast ashore he would weary and languish no matter how alluring the shady groves and how bright the gentle sun.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Soul, Storm, Matter

  "A Hero of Our Time". Book by Mikhail Lermontov, 1841.

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• Spending comes just as natural to liberals in Minnesota and the Minnesota legislature as bashing decency comes to the editorial board of our major metropolitan newspapers.

  Michele Bachmann

  Minnesota, Natural, Legislature

  Edwatch Conference, October 10-11, 2003.

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• I love chess, and I didn't invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead. A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. I'm really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.

  Bobby Fischer

  Games, Chess Game, People

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. June 27, 1999.

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• Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what
  Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Chess, Analysis, Ease

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• I believe most definitely that one must not only grapple with the problems on the board, one must also make every effort to combat the thoughts and will of the opponent.

  Mikhail Tal

  Believe, Effort, Psychology

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