"If we are to elevate the game of chess to a popular sport, grandmasters must become gladiators, otherwise the game will languish on the periphery, a voice crying in the wilderness, condemned to live and die on a cold arctic shore."

-- Michael Basman

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“I've always noticed how the Fenway fans get behind the pitcher, especially late in the game if you're having a good game, or if you have two strikes on a hitter, they really start to chant and anticipate a strikeout. And that's the best part about playing in Boston and at Fenway. There are knowledgeable fans who anticipate the flow of the game and they can really help out the pitcher.”
“It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.”
“I don't get recognized too much, which is cool because, you know, I don't want people to be overwhelmed.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Often we will learn more from our failures than we do from our successes.”
“I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.”
“If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder.”
“And I'm wondering where the lions are.”

Source : Song: Wondering Where the Lions Are, Album: Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws
“I'm on Grace And Frankie, which is also about that time in life, I'm realizing. But I would - so I guess I am sort of in that show. But there's something about The Golden Girls and the sort of multicam set and Bea Arthur that I just want to be around those ladies all day long, and I want to be on those comfy couches and want to sit in that kitchen in those chairs in those pastels, and I want to wear Blanche's outfits and it's just really... and I want to sit outside in that weird little courtyard.”

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