Blitz Quotes

27 quotes by 26 authors

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt
Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in… — Alexander Alekhine
In blitz, the Knight is stronger than the Bishop — Vlastimil Hort
I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz its helpful because people can get pretty sick of your… — Jane Curtin
You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry… — Ian Hislop
Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929. — Mikhail Botvinnik
No Blitz, that's oversimplifying it! — Herman Cain
Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess. — Anatoly Karpov
He who analyses blitz is stupid. — Rashid Nezhmetdinov
It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that… — Viswanathan Anand
Blitz chess kills your ideas. — Bobby Fischer
Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By far the highest casualty rate… — Simon Heffer
During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this… — Prince Philip
It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz. — Stephen Dorff
In contrast, the 'Old Europe' channels were showing film from reporters who had embedded themselves at the wrong end of the Baghdad blitz and the… — David Walker
The present blitz about drugs - I think it looks very much like how we treated insane people 100 years ago -- throw them in… — Gene Roddenberry
One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a… — Noam Chomsky
Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of the war. â€œNot even… — Martin Caidin
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal… — Harold Pinter
Mary bring out your umbrella - The sun shines down on this fine, fine day But the ashes raining down forever Are going to turn… — Lauren Oliver

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