"Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess. It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd go down to the Four Continents bookstore and he'd buy any Russian chess material he could get his hands on. He'd learned enough Russian to get the gist of prose and he just absorbed the chess part."

-- Ronald Gross

#Kids Quotes #Hands Quotes #Chess Quotes

“I somehow hope - naÃ¯ve though I may be, utopian, possibly - that my music has some kind of calming effect on the universe, that it's somehow beneficial to people.”
“When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slaveâ€”one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.”

Source : Charles Eisenstein (2011). “Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition”, p.30, North Atlantic Books
“this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.”
“Don't think about how your characters sound, but how they see. Watch the world through their eyes - study the extraordinary and the mundane through their particular perspective. Walk around the block with them, stroll the rooms they live in, figure out what objects on the cluttered dining room table they would inevitably stare at the longest, and then learn why.”
“Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old”
“I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.”
“In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition.”

Source : Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.121, University of Oklahoma Press
“Every club if I am not playing, I leave because I want to play football. All I wanted to do since I was a kid is play football and if I wasn't at a club I'd be playing with my mates on a Sunday. I still come home and play five-a-side with my mates.”

Source : Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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