"The Olympic Charter says winter sports must be played on snow or ice, so the Chess Federation says they'll play with ice pieces. The Olympic charter also says sports must be sports."

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Source : "Lightning Fill In The Blank". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. May 2, 2015.

Peter Sagal

#Sports Quotes #Winter Quotes #Ice Quotes

“Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.”
“It's the 'National Enquirer' for the ad people”
“I thought the only way you can get into things is... through the basement... exactly where my studio was ... I could creep upstairs and snatch at things, and bring them down with me... where I could munch away at them.”
“A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.”
“I don't regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!”
“Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As my sister insisted once, when she was in severe pain after injuring her ankle, 'This isn't me! This is not who I am!”

Source : Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace: A Memoir”, p.266, Simon and Schuster
“I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.”
“I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date”

Source : "Bring on the clown" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2004.

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