"The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in cafes and clubs: a neurasthenic individual, whose nerves and brains are continually working at tension: a one-sided person who has given up his whole soul to chess."

-- Richard Reti

#Play Quotes #People Quotes #Soul Quotes

“I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning.”
“Iâ€™ve worked with such legendary guitar players as Allan Holdsworth, Ronnie Montrose, Eric Clapton, Lowell George and Steve Vai, but none of them come close to having Edâ€™s [Eddie Van Halen's] fantastic combination of chops and musicianship. I rank him along with Charlie Parker and Art Tatum as one of the three greatest musicians of my lifetime. Unfortunately, I donâ€™t think Ed puts himself in that class.”
“[Psychics] use exactly the same gimmicks that we magicians do - the same physical methods, the same psychological methods - and they effectively and profoundly deceive millions of people around the earth, to their detriment.”
“I don't jog. It makes the ice jump right out of my glass.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I got 99 problems, palsy is just one”
“The public image of dinosaurs is tainted by extinction. It's hard to accept dinosaurs as a success when they are all dead. But the fact of ultimate extinction should not make us overlook the absolutely unsurpassed role dinosaurs played in the history of life.”
“To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.”

Source : Walter Scott (2015). “Rob Roy”, p.428, Walter Scott
“I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.”

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