„I achieved more than I could dream of in chess and in chess composing.“
— Yochanan Afek Israeli chess player, composer, trainer and arbiter 1952
From an interview with Tibor Károlyi, Genius in the Background (2009), p. 59.
„My dream is chess played in every school in India. The Soviets would include a chessboard along with the bride’s trousseau to ensure that the children born of that marriage knew the rules of chess.“
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„Someone finally understood all the “hell” that I’d been through since a child when I’d first tried to understand language. And yet in other forms of communications, like painting, sculpture, music, math, problem-solving, and chess, I’d been very good. In fact, in high school, once I learned how to play chess, I’d play lightning-fast, intuitively seeing all these different possibilities at the same time, and I’d won well over a hundred chess games without losing a single game. And that included beating some of our faculty members who thought that they were very good at chess.“
— Victor Villaseñor American writer 1940
Burro Genius: A Memoir (2004)
„The only thing the young should be taught is that there is virtually nothing to be hoped for from life. One dreams of a Catalogue of Disappointments which would include all the disillusionments reserved for each and every one of us, to be posted in the schools.“
— Emil M. Cioran, kniha The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
„A few months back Major Terry and his pet student, Drosen, had brought in a guy from San Diego to play chess with me. I’d had no idea that he was rated and was really good, so I’d beaten his ass real fast. He’d gotten all mad at Major Terry and Drosen for not telling him that I was as good as I was. He’d accused them of setting him up to publicly embarrass him. I’d had no idea what the big fuss was all about. I hadn’t even realized that there was such a thing as tournaments and championships for chess just like we had in wrestling. I’d quit playing chess at school after that incident. Now I only played at home with my dad’s older friends, Roberto and Salvador Montoya, who’d both been very good chess players in Mexico City. I beat Roberto almost all the time, but his older brother Salvador beat me pretty regularly. And I’d recently been told that Salvador had been so good that he’d once gone to Cuba to play and that he’d come in third among some of the best international players in the world.“
— Victor Villaseñor American writer 1940
Crazy Loco Love: A Memoir (2008)
„It was all role playing. I felt Larry was my little brother, Ben my big brother. Role playing was something I had known since I was born, but it wasn't a good basis for a marriage.“
— Mary Martin American actress 1913 - 1990
On her early married life with her first husband Ben Hagman, p. 39
My Heart Belongs (1976)
„My classmates were spinning their fantasies for the future: lawyer, ethnobotanist, Buddhist monk (it was a very progressive high school). Even the dumb, uninteresting ones who were there to provide “balance” looked forward to their marriages and their children. I knew I wasn’t going to have any of this because I knew I didn’t want it. But did that mean I would have nothing? I was the first person in the history of the school not to go to college.“
— Susanna Kaysen, kniha Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted (1994)
„A bride burns her bridges, having fallen in love, and drowns in marriage.“
— David Woodard American writer, conductor and businessman 1964
Breed the Unmentioned (1985)
„I would like to announce my retirement from international and domestic first-class cricket. It is 16 years since I played my first Test match for India and today I feel it is an time to move on. Once I was like every other boy in India, with a dream of playing for my country. Yet I could never have imagined a journey so long and so fulfilling.“
— Rahul Dravid Indian cricketer 1973
In press conference announcing retirement from Test cricket, quoted in " After 16 yrs, Rahul Wall Dravid retires from intl cricket "in Indian Express (Indianexpress.com) http://www.indianexpress.com/news/after-16-yrs-rahul-wall-dravid-retires-from-intl-cricket/921750/0
„Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born.“
— Mary E. Pearson, kniha The Kiss of Deception
Zdroj: The Kiss of Deception
„School-rules, school-duties, school-habits and notions, and voices, and faces, and phrases, and costumes, and preferences, and antipathies — such was what I knew of existence.“
— Charlotte Brontë, kniha Jana Eyrová
Jane (Ch. 10)
Jane Eyre (1847)
Kontext: School-rules, school-duties, school-habits and notions, and voices, and faces, and phrases, and costumes, and preferences, and antipathies — such was what I knew of existence. And now I felt that it was not enough; I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon. I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. I abandoned it and framed a humbler supplication; for change, stimulus: that petition, too, seemed swept off into vague space: "Then," I cried, half desperate, "grant me at least a new servitude!"Here a bell, ringing the hour of supper, called me downstairs.
„She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.“
— Zora Neale Hurston, kniha Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zdroj: Their Eyes Were Watching God
„Marriage is god's way to ensure there are few great men“
— Siddharth Katragadda Indian writer 1972
page 55
Dark Rooms (2002)
„Independence from the colonial rule will remain a dream until and unless the people of India are healthy and strong in mind and body.“
— Bidhan Chandra Roy Former Chief Minister of West Bengal, India 1882 - 1962
„One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them."“
— Бел Кауфман, kniha Up the Down Staircase
Part X, ch. 49 (Sylvia Barrett)
Up the Down Staircase (1965)
„Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son.“
— Camille Paglia American writer 1947
Zdroj: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 53
„A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.“
— Helen Rowland American journalist 1875 - 1950
Second Marriages
A Guide to Men (1922)
„From biscuit to brides, if there is anything their children really want, parents have a problem.“
— Chetan Bhagat, kniha 2 States: The Story of My Marriage
Zdroj: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage