"Blitz chess kills your ideas."

-- Bobby Fischer

#Ideas Quotes #Chess Quotes #Blitz Quotes

“I have met the soul walking upon my path.”
“I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.”
“But it is clear to me that our survivalâ€”both yours and mineâ€”will be dictated by how well you and I can work together.â€ â€œSo weâ€™re screwed?”

Source : Devon Monk (2010). “Magic at the Gate: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.199, Penguin
“But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.”

Source : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.300, Simon and Schuster
“The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.”
“I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.”
“MORE CONSISTENTLY THAN EVER I WAS TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT CINEMA AS AN INSTRUMENT OF ART HAS ITS OWN POSSIBILITIES WHICH ARE EQUAL TO THOSE OF PROSE. I WANTED TO DEMONSTRATE HOW CINEMA IS ABLE TO OBSERVE LIFE, WITHOUT INTERFERING, CRUDELY OR OBVIOUSLY, WITH ITS CONTINUITY. FOR THAT IS WHERE I SEE THE POETIC ESSENCE OF CINEMA.”
“I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.”

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