"In the absence of the sacred, nothing is sacred - everything is for sale."

-- Oren Lyons

#Sacred Quotes #Absence Quotes

“It is no secret that any talented player must in his soul be an artist, and what could be dearer to his heart and soul than the victory of the subtle forces of reason over crude material strength! Probably everyone has his own reason for liking the King`s Gambit, but my love for it can be seen in precisely those terms.”

Source : David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.8, Courier Corporation
“... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees you nothing but amusement. He does not guarantee you any of the little amenities by which society has assured itself that, if it must go to sleep, it will at least sleep in a comfortable chair.”
“There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.”
“I like actors who don't have to think too hard about what they have to do to achieve their performance.”
“Ever since I was really really little, I was just singing all the time. Like one of my favorite games when I was little would be to just have one of my sisters pick a title, and I would impromptu create that song.”
“It's interesting when you read the life of Christ how much of his time he spent healing the sick. There must have been a reason for that - he was modelling for us what it is we are intended to do by following his path.”
“Our kiss was niticlimactic. It wasn't that the kiss was bad, but it was just a note of punctuation in our long conversation, a parenthetical remark made in order to assure each other of a deeply felt agreement, a mutual offer of companionship, which is so much more rare than sexual passion or even love.”
“You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal.”

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