"Pawns: they are the soul of this game, they alone form the attack and defense"

-- Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

#Games Quotes #Soul Quotes #Defense Quotes

“I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.”
“I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any plan or system, that one is really astonished that there are so many people who devote themselves to it - and, still worse, it is absolutely devoid of any rigor.”

Source : "Five things I know about style: Zac Posen". Interview With Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2011.
“Where the hell is Australia anyway?”
“It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.”
“Amebic dysentery is endemic throughout the world, affecting 17.6% of the population. In the US, it affects 13.6%. ...No one..really knows the extent of the parasites and the diseases they cause.”
“Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great way to take my mind off things.”
“Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book.”
“I don't think photography has anything remotely to do with the brain. It has to do with eye appeal.”

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