Pieces Quotes

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The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the… — Pal Benko
The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a… — Jack Handey
It looked something like a pen wiper and something like a piece of hearth-rug. A second and keener inspection revealed it as a Pekinese puppy. — P.G. Wodehouse
You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces. — Henry J. Kaiser
Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He… — Charles Stanley
As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an action, and he didn't mean… — Simon McBurney
Every time I make, I've made a piece of work, I've wanted to get rid of it, obliterate it and do the next thing, because… — Simon McBurney
I can't remember a single year of my life when I haven't made a piece of theatre. — Simon McBurney
Theatre is very much concerned with the society, with the social situation... A theatre piece of itself, demands a confrontation with the audience. It demands… — Unknown Author
Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul. — George Jean Nathan
To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make… — Eleanora Duse
You take a fraction of reality and expand on it. It's very seldom totally at odds with the facts. It's shaving a piece of reality… — Frank Snepp
The Internet "browser"... is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and… — Dave Barry
Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine. — Unknown Author
Each typeface is a piece of history, like a chip in a mosaic that depicts the development of human communication. Each typeface is also a… — Will Burtin
If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless. — Crystal Eastman
It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own....style. Conversely, to put very fine pieces of furniture… — Nancy Lancaster
I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every… — Nancy Lancaster
In positions of strategic manoeuvring (where time is not of decisive importance) seek the worst-placed piece. Activating that piece is often the most reliable way… — Mark Dvoretsky
Tal doesn't move the pieces by hand; he uses a magic wand. — Unknown Author
Once in a Moscow chess club I saw how two first-category players knocked pieces off the board as they were exchanged, so that the pieces… — Alexander Kotov
Like us as Black", beg the chess pieces," and you will anyway like us as White — Unknown Author
Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew… — Peter Mayhew
Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the… — Hermann Hesse
If you don't know what to do, find your worst Piece and look for a better Square. — Unknown Author

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