Move Quotes
6930 quotes by 4143 authors
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It is personalities not principles that move the age.
— Oscar Wilde
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One writes to teach, to move or to delight.
— Unknown Author
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It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
— Gustave Flaubert
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It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is that; if you…
— Lewis Thomas
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There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and I suddenly see…
— Eudora Welty
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I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to…
— E L Doctorow
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The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the…
— Amy Tan
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Procrastination isn't the problem. It's the solution. It's the universe's way of saying stop, slow down, you move too fast.
— Ellen DeGeneres
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People who want to improve should take their defeats as lessons, and endeavor to learn what to avoid in the future. You must also have…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which his…
— Alexander Kotov
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The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.
— Emanuel Lasker
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Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that…
— Edward Weston
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I have sort of a Zen body philosophy, I'm sort of like: we're one weight one day, we're one weight another day, and some day…
— Lena Dunham
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"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me…
— Ansel Adams
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But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the viewer…
— Sam Abell
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Reading just had a great five-man move that involved everyone.
— Phil Thompson
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It's going to be a busy meet for me, I knew that coming in, so I'm just trying to go through all my recovery strategies.…
— Tera Van Beilen
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The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move
— David Bronstein
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I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently
— Mark Twain
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A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket
— Richard Fenton
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