"I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw."

-- Nigel Short

#Play Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Chess Quotes

“Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.”
“The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.”
“A master should be paid liberally, in order to secure a person properly qualified.”
“Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.”

Source : "The Stars of Jackass 3D On God, Cancer, and Homosexuality". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.vanityfair.com. October 14, 2010.
“A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.”

Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”
“I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.”

Source : Guardian interviews at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. 15 November, 1999.
“What the eye does not see, the heart does not rue”

Source : Peter Shaffer (2011). “Equus”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
“Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.”

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