Chess Quote by Wilhelm Steinitz Download Open image “Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?” — Wilhelm Steinitz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chess Examining Inspirational Love Money Monkeys Watches
When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around like that?" — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
I've had a watch with me for as long as I can remember, since I was small. But it's not so much the time… — Jacob Elordi Copy Share Image
We see the man when we look at the monkey; we see the monkey when we look at the man! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Never noticed a female monkey not climbing as well as a male, have you? — Don Whillans Copy Share Image
I think the monkeys at the zoo should have to wear sunglasses so they can't hypnotize you. — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself… — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years ahead of… — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
I would rather die in America than live in England. I would rather lose a match in America than win one in England. I… — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live… — Simen Agdestein Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Relationships are chess for women," he said. "They can see the whole board, plan way ahead. They're the queens, after all. We're the kings,… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
The election of Trump threw the chess board up. The pieces are all over the place. That's upsetting to a lot of people, but… — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
“the shadows. “Why do you think they invented chess?” “He’s got you there,” said the captain, following Fletcher. Jake jogged slightly to catch up… — Russell Blake Copy Share Image
[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image