When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise.… — Howard Staunton Copy Share Image
When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the… — Davy Jones Copy Share Image
Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I've just been playing the Trout Quintet on the phonograph. Listening to the andantino makes me want to be a trout myself.… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
Let's forget about themes and mood boards. Let's start from a different point of view. You have to leave for two months… — Christophe Lemaire Copy Share Image
The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone… — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image
Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist... Beethoven could have been forgiven if… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town… — Faith Popcorn Copy Share Image
A two-career couple with children is a complex, sensitive piece of machinery with lots of moving parts. Anything less than total cooperation… — Kathie Lee Gifford Copy Share Image
For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote… — Brendan O'Carroll Copy Share Image
'Princess' is a good word, as is 'girlish', 'pixie-like' and all these other things. I personally find it a bit boring, it's… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It's not only that I want to get things right when I'm composing but that my imagination often gets lost, and then… — George Benjamin Copy Share Image
I've had pieces in my catalog that kind of amble along, that really never go anywhere, but are known and liked. — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a… — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
I think I could describe the perfect quarterback. Take a little piece of everybody. Take John Elway's arm, Dan Marino's release, maybe… — Peyton Manning Copy Share Image
I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
The day I take either my body or my work for granted will be the day you hear that I've smashed every… — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
I'll crumble off a little tuna on a plate, sprinkle with lemon and spear the pieces with colorful toothpicks, so it looks… — Joey Heatherton Copy Share Image
You were born with the seeds of your talent, the ability to observe the world around you and weave piece of it… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
There's always someone kicking guns. We wanted ["Badlands"] to be a world without guns and bullets, where martial arts was the form… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
It's a piece that is so interactive, and relies so much on these five men in the room, that I think will… — Sean Mahon Copy Share Image
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