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“A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.”

May Two Values Three Five Pieces Minors Fractions Pawns

Book:The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions

Source: The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions

“A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.”

Ifs Important Artist Three Pieces Advice Honesty Picks Important Things Trust And Respect

Author:Neil Strauss

“I look ridiculous in a three-piece suit - I'm too fat.”

Looks Three Pieces Ridiculous Fats Suits

Author:Dominic West

“Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlour? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason. But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimensions, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours.”

“I had three weeks of prep on 'Wolfman,' a ridiculously inadequate amount of time to try to bring together the fractured and scattered pieces of the production. I had taken the job mostly because I had a cash flow problem, the only time in my career I've ever let finances enter into the decision process.”

Trying Problem Together Jobs Three Process Decision Careers Taken Pieces Week Amount Flow Productions Finance Cash Only Time Inadequate Preps Cash Flow

Author:Joe Johnston

“I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off an impression at an audition that had them mentally put me in a three-piece suit or put an attache case in my hand. If there was a stiff-guy part, the director would brighten up when I came in.”

Ifs Self Sometimes Hands Guy Three Actors Cases Pieces Directors Conscious Starting Impression Suits Auditions Self Conscious Pomposity

Author:Charles Kimbrough

“After 10 years, I have been touring for 20, playing basically the same type of music, a four-piece or three-piece type of music with loud, crashing drums and screaming vocals. It gets to the point where you're looking for something new, and you don't want to do something that's way too left-field, for fear that it might seem contrived.”

Way Want Years Has Beens Seems Might Three Left Pieces Four Fields Type Loud Something New Vocal Touring Left Field

Author:Dave Grohl

“Pete Townsend for me was a huge influence. Because essentially they were a three-piece band and the way he structured his chords and took up a lot of space musically in the songs was really important to the way Rush developed. Geddy and Neil both were such active players and lot of the time we were all playing like crazy and it was too much and somebody had to reel it in and me being the faceless guy, I would do that.”

Way Important Guy Song Three Space Too Much Pieces Player Crazy Influence Huge Band Active Chords Faceless

Author:Alex Lifeson

“I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.”

Long Three Can Do Hours Pieces Radio Finished Interviews

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism." If so, Cervantes didn't know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.”

Ifs Knows Years Romance Three Pieces Modern Theory Hundred Critics Refuse Silly Satire Symbolism Chivalry

Book:Leacock on Life

Source: Leacock on Life

“When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always, to me, like a mountain to climb. You look at that one blank piece of paper and you think, `God, how many songs do I have to write here?' It always feels like pressure.”

Thinking Feels Writing Firsts Looks Song Three Pieces Four Mountain Paper Pressure Climbs Blank Belts

Author:Martin Gore

“Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity. But human relationships, even of the simplest order, are like a kind of four-dimensional chess, a game whose pieces and positions change subtly and inexorably between moves, whose players stare dumbly while their powerful positions deteriorate into hopeless predicaments and while improbable combinations suddenly become inevitable. To make matters worse, some games are open to any number of players, and all sides are expected to win.”

Source: Time and the Art of Living

“Halloween's coming. Kids get very imaginative in my neighborhood. Last year, three kids showed up as Goldman Sachs executives and demanded 4.5 billion pieces of candy.”

Years Kids Lasts Three Pieces Billions Neighborhood Executives Last Year Halloween Candy Imaginative Goldman Sachs

Author:Jay Leno

“The Knight in the triumph of his heart made several 6 reflections on thegreatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of Popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that theThames was thenoblest river in Europe; that London Bridge was a greater piece of work than any of the Seven Wonders of the World; with many other honest prejudices which naturally cleave to the heart of a true Englishman.”

“In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons, it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn't there. Or ignore what is. We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality. We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.”

Source: The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew

“For several years I've been writing 100-word pieces. More recently I've been putting them together in groups of two and three. I don't see them as sequences, but rather as companion pieces, the way that diptychs often work. The idea comes originally from the paintings of Michael Venezia who places blocks of painted wood next to each other. Proximity is a godsend. The quote is from Wallace Stevens.”

Way Writing Years Two Ideas Together Three Next Pieces Groups Painting Woods Block Companion Sequence Proximity

Author:Jim Moore

“On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.”

Men Body Three Found Pieces Cutting Reaching

Book:The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography

Source: The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography

“Caron, Even though you just got here a few months ago, We've grown so close over these last few weeks And, I can remember, When you first got here, You wrote a piece of paper in my locker... I don't know why I'm crying so much man... You wrote a piece of paper in my locker that said, "KD MVP." And that's after we had lost two or three straight. And I don't really say much in those moments, But I remember that. I go home and I think about that stuff man. When you got people behind you, You can do whatever. And I thank you man, I appreciate you.”

“A cat is, by and large, sophisticated and complex, and capable of creating three-act plays around any single piece of action.”

Play Action Three Pieces Creating Capable Cat Complexes Sophisticated

Book:The book of Stillmeadow

Source: The book of Stillmeadow

“I've never worn a dress shirt that's been comfortable. I've always just worn dress shoes. On more than one occasion, I've heard that a champion should dress like a champion. But I'm a champion because of who I am. Who I am is not that guy. If everybody wears three-piece suits, everyone looks the same.”

Ifs Should Looks Guy Three Pieces Heard Comfortable Dresses Shoes Who I Am Suits Occasions Shirts Champion Worn That Guy I Am Who I Am

Author:CM Punk

“I just got my first bikini. It's a three-piece: a top, a botton, and a blindfold for you.”

Firsts Three Pieces Clothes Bikinis Blindfolds

Author:Wendy Liebman

“There is so much information that our ability to focus on any piece of it is interrupted by other information, so that we bathe in information but hardly absorb or analyse it. Data are interrupted by other data before we've thought about the first round, and contemplating three streams of data at once may be a way to think about none of them.”

Thinking Way Firsts May Three Ability Focus Pieces Information Rounds Data Streams Contemplating Interrupted

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“I started very early. I started to be interested in design when I was 14 years old, basically, and before I was just like anybody else, any other kid. I was playing with everything. I loved to do stage sets by cutting a piece of board and making a cut in three sides, flipping it down, making the stage.”

Years Kids Three Sides Pieces Cutting Stage Design Boards Three Sides

Author:Massimo Vignelli

“I remember the very first suit I bought. It was a three-piece denim suit with bell-bottoms.”

Firsts Remember Three Pieces Bottom Suits Bells Denim

Author:Grant Show

“The three most important rules in selecting the right piece of real estate are location, location, location (and when we have periods of tight money I would add terms, terms, terms).”

Important Real Three Term Pieces Periods Add Estates Location

Book:Money dynamics for the new economy

Source: Money dynamics for the new economy

“Three days after my boyfriend left me, I discovered a closetful of his clothes. I thought of what I'd done in the past (bundling them up and sending them, COD: distributing them to my friends) even as I already had the scissors in hand and was cutting his shirts and a pair of pants into teeny pieces. When there was nothing left of his ghost except a large pile of cloth, I decided to learn how to quilt.”

Done Hands Past Three Left Pieces Cutting Clothes My Friends Decided Ghost Shirts Pairs Pants My Boyfriend Scissors Quilts

Author:Anne Elizabeth Moore

“The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with coins, or dice, or chess pieces, or pencils. He knows it, and that's that. He cannot conceive a different sum. There are mathematicians who say that three plus one is a tautology for four, a different way of saying "four" ... If three plus one can be two, or fourteen, then reason is madness.”

Source: The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory

“In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language, and I mean including America and England, at some time wrote for Punch. Jerome K. Jerome, who wrote Three Men In A Boat, I loved. I was very impressed when I read a piece by Mark Twain in Punch, and realized that despite the fact that they were on different continents, Jerome K. Jerome and Mark Twain had the same kind of laconic, laid-back, "The human race is damn stupid, but quite interesting" attitude. They were almost talking with the same voice.”

“When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn't come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards, Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism, a dynamic hub of wealth and education, where people wear three-piece suits and dark socks, often simultaneously.”

People Thinking Used Three Wealth Dark Growing Up Pieces Growing Standards Suits Best Things Sock Iowa Mecca Hub Cosmopolitanism Des Moines

Book:The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America

Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America

“A child of three cannot raise its chubby fist to its mouth to remove a piece of carpet which it is through eating, without being made the subject of a psychological seminar of child-welfare experts, and written up, along with five hundred other children of three who have put their hands to their mouths for the same reason.”

Children Made Reason Hands Three Five Pieces Written Childhood Subjects Eating Mouths Hundred Raises Psychological Welfare Experts Remove Fists Carpet Seminars

Book:Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces

Source: Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces

“From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work.”

Age Young Three Millions Pieces Wind Dad My Dad Engines Recalls Three Times Young Age Christmas Gift

Author:Homaro Cantu

“It never seemed like that much of a mystery why shows I was acted in failed. When you're doing a show called Freaks And Geeks about young people in high school, and it's on Saturday nights at 8 and there's no promotion for it, it's not really hard to guess why no one's watching it. And when you're doing a college goofball comedy that premières three weeks after Sept. 11, it's not that hard to piece together why that's not the most important thing on the radar.”

People Important Hard Shows School Together Young Night Three Comedy Pieces Mystery Week College High School Important Things Freak Saturday Geek Promotion Saturday Night Radar Sept 11

Author:Seth Rogen

“Most organizations only focus on WHAT they do and HOW they do it - tactics and strategies - and they aren't even aware that this thing called the WHY exists. Focusing on only two pieces of a three piece puzzle leaves an organization, or a career, inherently out of balance. Being out of balance, only operating on two of the three pieces, shows up in different ways - increased stress, loss of passion, obsession with what your competition is doing, being forced to play the price game, trouble differentiating. These are all signs that the WHY is missing.”

“I ordered a club sandwich, but I'm not even a member. "I like my sandwiches with three pieces of bread." "Well, so do I!" "Then let's form a club." "OK, but we need some more stipulations. Instead of cutting the sandwich once, let's cut it again. Yes, four triangles, arranged in a circle, and in the middle we will dump chips." "How do you feel about frilly toothpicks?" "I'm for 'em!" "Well, this club is formed."”

Needs Feels Wells Humor Funny Form Three Pieces Four Cutting Middle Members Clubs Circles Bread Ems Chips Sandwiches Dump Triangles Toothpicks Stipulations

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I've always believed that the range or depth of emotion can be great, whether you're play a three-minute piece, or a half-hour work.”

Play Three Hours Emotion Half Pieces Minutes Depth Range Always Believe Half Hours

Author:Anne Akiko Meyers

“Even after rowing in all these pieces, it's often hard to determine who will be selected because the decisive factor in seat racing is speed not margin. Boat X beats boat Y by two lengths over 1000 meters in a time of 2:54. After exchanging "Dave" from X to Y for "Scott," Boat X beats boat Y by one length in a time of 2:51. From the rower's perspective, the result is that Dave beats Scott by a length. But in Mike's eyes, Scott beats Dave because on the second piece, X was three seconds faster-even though it only beat Y by a length.”

Two Hard Eye Three Results Pieces Perspective Beats Determine Speed Factors Boat Faster Seats Length Seconds Racing Mike Margins Selected Meter Rowing Dave Exchanging

Author:Chris Ahrens

“It's unusual to spend even three full hours away from my newborn baby, it's like a piece of my body is back in the hotel room, and it does feel strange. But I love my work, though, it's not just a job for me, punching in my time card. I've always loved what I do, it's what makes me happy and I figure if I'm happy I'll be a good Mum too.”

Ifs Feels Doe Body Jobs Three Hours Rooms Pieces Figures Strange Baby Cards My Time Hotel Unusual Mum Make Me Happy Newborn Hotel Rooms Punching Newborn Baby

Author:Naomi Watts

“I had to leave some traces. In the beginning, I would give complete instructions to the photographer. In the '70s, people would come to photograph your work and you would just end up with this crazy material that had nothing to do with your work; maybe I'd pick up two or three photographs that were the closest to the idea. This is why when you look at the '70s, you see much less documentation and really bad material. The material will become misleading to what the piece was.”

People Giving Looks Two Ideas Ends Three Pieces Crazy Materials Picks Photographer Photograph Instruction Closest Mislead Documentation

Author:Marina Abramovic

“I always give three pieces of advice to all the teenage girls when I do my talks: long country walks - it's important to get some fresh air in your lungs, and be in contact with your body; masturbation - it takes the edge off, it'll get you through; and the revolution - believing in changing the world.”

World Giving Believe Long Important Country Body Girl Three Walks Pieces Air Advice Revolution Edges Your Body Contact Changing The World Teenage Lungs Masturbation Fresh Air Teenage Girl

Author:Caitlin Moran

“My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until in a petty three months' campaign it knocked to pieces a poor, decrepit, bankrupt old state like Spain. To hold such an opinion as that is to abandon all American standards, to put shame and scorn on all that our ancestors tried to build up here, and to go over to the standards of which Spain is a representative.”

Source: War and Other Essays

“I don't think too much about the past when I am actually playing, I prefer to concentrate on the present. The performance of a piece, no matter how long ago or where it was written, is always a new production, something that comes alive in the present. And it doesn't matter if the piece was written two or three hundred years ago if it is alive in us.”

Ifs Thinking Years Long Two Matter Past Three Too Much Pieces Alive Written Hundred Years Ago Performances Productions Long Ago Live In The Present

Author:David Finckel

“I like alternating commercials with movies, because it keeps the pace up. You can't slack on a commercial. You need to go fast. That's a terrific piece of action, I think if that was scheduled for a movie, you'd put that in for two or three days worth of work.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Two Action Three Pieces Pace Terrific

Author:Paul W. S. Anderson

“If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.”

Ifs Long Three Pieces Minutes Rocks Music Is

Author:Robert Ashley

“There's a different kind of comfort that comes from knowing that you are putting your best foot forward. It's called psychological comfort. Look at a picture of the Coney Island boardwalk in 1925. Men were in full-on three-piece suits, hats. They may have only had one suit. But they pressed it. They made it look as good as possible.”

Men Looks Kind May Made Different Three Knowing Pieces Feet Comfort Psychological Suits Made It Islands Hats Different Kinds Boardwalks Coney Island

Author:Tom Ford

“I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.”

Littles Has Beens Three Pieces Prove Paper Three Times Prove It

Author:Eartha Kitt

“I felt I had nothing more to say. Everything would have had to be a replay of the previous two or three albums, and that decided me to stop. What bothered me most was not playing guitar at all anymore. I felt I had no more contact with the instrument. It was just a piece of wood to me. I even thought music had definitely left me. After fourteen albums, there may be an overload phase, a sort of lassitude.”

May Two Three Left Felt Pieces Decided Instruments Guitar Albums Woods Contact Phases Bothered Fourteen Playing Guitar Overload Replay

Author:Richard Pinhas

“I've worked really hard. I've made three pieces of seminal art in my life. If I died tomorrow, I'd be remembered for making them. There are a lot of artists who, no matter how hard they work in their lives, will never make anything seminal.”

Ifs Art Made Matter Hard Artist Three Pieces Tomorrow Died Remembered

Author:Tracey Emin