“I failed to make the chess team because of my height.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.”
The King's Gambit (2007)
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Bobby Fischer (1943–2008) American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer
Radio Interview, June 27 1999 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_08_3.MP3 <br class="br">1990s
“I'm a chess player; I play chess.”
Floyd Mayweather Jr. (1977) American boxer
2010s, 2015, Interview with Jim Gray (September 2015)
“I achieved more than I could dream of in chess and in chess composing.”
Yochanan Afek (1952) Israeli chess player, composer, trainer and arbiter
From an interview with Tibor Károlyi, Genius in the Background (2009), p. 59.
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese
No. LXIII
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Variant: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach
Context: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
Context: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! —and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Jennifer Shahade (1980) chess player
On the title of her book Chess Bitch : Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Sport
Gothamist interview (2006)
“Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.”
Siegbert Tarrasch book The Game of Chess
The Game of Chess (1931), Preface
Siegbert Tarrasch book The Game of Chess
The Game of Chess (As quoted by Fred Reinfeld in Tarrasch's Best Games of Chess)
Mitt Romney (1947) American businessman and politician
The, uh, the streets are just right. I like the fact that most of the cars I see are Detroit-made automobiles. I drive a Mustang and a Chevy pickup truck. Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs, actually.
[2012-02-24, Mitt, Michigan and a Couple of Cadillacs, Charles M., Blow, The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/opinion/blow-mitt-romney-michigan-and-a-couple-of-cadillacs.html, 2012-07-03]
2012
James Branch Cabell (1879–1958) American author
"Auctorial Induction"
The Certain Hour (1916)
Context: It spurred me to such action as I took, — but it has robbed me of sugared eloquence, it has left me chary of speech. It is necessary that I climb very high because of my love for you, and upon the heights there is silence.