Chess Quote by G. H. Hardy

A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising the moves,…

— G. H. Hardy

Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity

— Vladimir Nabokov

In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant class. But…

— Pete Seeger

The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy…

— G. H. Hardy

The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords / If when the soul unto the lines accords.

— George Herbert

Opened Christmas cards hum to me the hymn of love and teach me the sacrament of correspondence.

— Edward M Hays

If we can choose where to cry, at home or with a few people who will be fully understanding, perhaps we will feel easier.…

— Martha Whitmore Hickman

What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's…

— Epictetus

After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing…

— Wallace Stevens

There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.

— Marilynne Robinson

Hymns have always sounded like sung spells to me. I never felt included in the magic of the God songs I heard growing up…

— Perfume Genius