I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.
Russell Crowe
LifeMy LifePlayKnowChessYa
Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.
Donald E. Westlake
WritingLearnYouPageChessMaster
I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.
Boris Spassky
GoodI AmFreeHelpTryingChess
All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
Bobby Fischer
PlayWantChessEver
My father was an important person, the director of the school. He could talk to anybody - simple or educated. He liked chess, fishing, and beautiful women.
Svetlana Alexievich
FatherWomenBeautifulFishingChess
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.
Rex Stout
HomeMeStoryTelevisionChessHand
Like MCs, each chess player has his own style: how he likes to open, when he likes to attack. Just like we face off with each other lyrically, we challenge each other's minds on the chessboard. Sharpen each other's swords.
Gza
StyleChallengeFaceChessMinds
I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.
Emma Watson
TreasureChessFirstOutGotFilm
My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.
Alexandra Kosteniuk
LifeMeArmyCareerChessAbandoned
I don't think the computer will win the Booker, but no-one ever expected a computer to beat a chess grandmaster.
Alastair Reynolds
WinThinkChessWillBeatComputer
I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I happened to be in the one city where there was a sprouting chess team: Chennai.
Viswanathan Anand
CityTeamCountryChessLuckyBig
For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.
Vladimir Kramnik
LanguageArtistChessSomethingUs
I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.
Marcel Duchamp
EnthusiasmChessFortyYearsLittle
Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'
Daniel Tammet
LifeGreatChampionAmericanChess
I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.
Olivia Holt
SchoolTeamChessClassPresident
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
Magnus Carlsen
SmallChessMinorityOnlyQuite
It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
Garry Kasparov
LifeMeMy LifeChessDifficult
Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
MeChessSuccessfulNatural
Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course, chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have a very strong nervous system, and then you must be well prepared; you must be able to work a lot.
Anatoly Karpov
WorkGameToughStrongYouChess
My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.
WorldBackGeographyChessMapIdea
My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.
Jeff Nichols
PeopleCareChessPiecesBigMove
Many leaders are tempted to lead like a chess master, striving to control every move, when they should be leading like gardeners, creating and maintaining a viable ecosystem in which the organization operates.
Stanley A. McChrystal
OrganizationControlStrivingChess
I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.
Joshua Waitzkin
BusinessTruthEyeTruth IsChess
Everything that Marvel does, it's a chess move. Nothing is by accident.
Chris Evans
ChessNothingEverythingMoveMarvel
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