Famous quotes containing the words chess, openings and/or named:
“Its a great huge game of chess thats being playedall over the worldif this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldnt mind being a Pawn, if only I might jointhough of course I should like to be a Queen, best.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“There are a thousand unnoticed openings ... which let a penetrating eye at once into a mans soul; and I maintain ... that a man of sense does not lay down his hat in coming into a room,or take it up in going out of it, but something escapes, which discovers him.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“who should moor at his edge
And fare on afoot would find gates of no gardens,
But the hill of dark underfoot diving,
Closing overhead, the cold deep, and drowning.
He is called Leviathan, and named for rolling,”
—William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)