"She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armour, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency."

-- Raymond Chandler

#War Quotes #Moving Quotes #Agency Quotes

“I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.”
“Sadly, I can't say the same for my Father, who is probably in a different place - Hell.”
“Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.”
“When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.”

Source : "Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Yuh Nelson: Newest Members of a Very Small Club". Interview with Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 8, 2011.
“Every human is like all other humans, some other humans, and no other human.”
“Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone.”
“The lads really ran their socks into the ground.”
“You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.”

Source : " Abbott defends indefensible in sending son to private school" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2003.

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