Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Fischer

Tactics flow from a superior position

Bobby Fischer

That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one

Bobby Fischer

Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind

Bobby Fischer

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

Bobby Fischer

I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.

Nigel Short

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

Howard Staunton

After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game

David Walliams

It's important when you're married not to forget those things you used to do when you were trying to get her to marry you. You can't send flowers and buy gifts then, when you're married, say, 'Right, get my tea on'. That doesn't go down well. So you've got to keep that level of interest going.

David Brock

During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established.

Beau Bridges

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

Arthur Ransome

I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life on business and golf and gardening and motoring and marriage, and had in this way postponed his initiation (to fly fishing) far too long.

Seth

If you do not have a loving concern for the environment... it will no longer sustain you - you will not be worthy of it. You will not be destroying the planet, you see. You will not be destroying the birds, or the flowers, or the grain, or the animals... they will be destroying you.

Derek Jarman

One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, strawberry or cherry are now things of the past, along with their precious moment of arrival. Even the tangerine -- now a satsuma or clementine -- appears de-pipped months before Christmas.

Denzel Washington

In marriage, if you're a guy, learn two phrases. One is "yes, dear" and the other is "honey, you're right." Be patient. Be good friends first. And stick together. You gotta work at it. It's not all a honeymoon, it's not all flowers and roses, but if you're friends and partners and committed, you'll be okay. And everybody's got advice for you - don't listen.

Denise Levertov

slowly the pale dew-beads of light lapped up from flowers can thicken, darken to gold: honey of the human.

Denise Levertov

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.

Bob Corker

I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position,

Carlos Ghosn

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

Drew Barrymore

You can't treat a romantic relationship the same way you do a business one, by being bossy. It takes tender, compromising, loving tactics. And that's such a different approach.

Matthew Dowd

We can never have enough strategy. We have enough tactics but not enough strategy,

Michael Bergdahl

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

John Podhoretz

The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics

Christopher Hitchens

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

Christopher Hitchens

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.