#tag

A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#adverse #between #directly #ending #front

I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I'll know, and if I don't, I hope somebody tells me. ↗

— Rosemary Clooney

#get #hope #i #i can #i hope that

People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job. ↗

— Dane Cook

#good time #i #i love #job #know

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#am #average #days #every #facing

Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#everything #exactly #jackson #michael #michael jackson

We are all encouraged that Bush appears, really for the first time in his experience on the stage of presidential politics, relaxed. His comfort is our comfort. ↗

— John Dean

#bush #comfort #encouraged #experience #first

I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them. ↗

— Laura Dern

#i #i was raised #interested #protagonists #raised

Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#armies #could #defeat #dozen #enabled

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#bargain #discontented #excellent #frame #him

The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time. ↗

— Victor Garber

#feel #i #i feel #miss #most