Top 163 Pawn Quotes & Sayings

Most people don't realize how regulated the pawn industry is, especially where I'm at in Nevada.

An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

In the middlegame one should not hesitate to advance a central passed pawn.

If life is tough, at least you got that thing you can pawn.

The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game.

I feel people are not real in reality shows and can use emotions as a pawn.

Now I have the pawn and the compensation.

The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient

It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king.

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.

The pawn is the soul of chess.

I became merely a pawn used to produce more money for Warner Bros.

This sacrifice of a pawn nowadays is only played for drawing purposes. Especially against the very strongest masters it has proved to be quite useful to this end.

A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!

Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?

I won't wait for this Joshua-Wilder-Tyson Fury nonsense and become a pawn in their negotiations.

I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk.

I wake up at 5:30 in the morning, get to the Pawn Shop at six, work out for two hours, film until seven at night.

I'd rather have a Pawn than a finger

A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

I'm a real pawn-shopper.

What difference, being a pawn for the Light or a pawn for the Dark?" "There is a great difference. One difference is that for the Dark, certainly, you are a pawn. For the Light, you are a free human being, free to make mistakes, to do wrong, even. You are free to choose, whether or not you believe it.

If you go to most pawn shops in Las Vegas, they will tell you exactly what they will pay for, say, an iPod. But if you show up with an 1833 ormolu clock, it won't pop up in their computer. They are going to tell you to go to Gold & Silver Pawn, because we buy weird things.

What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded.

You might be a redneck if your primary source of income is the pawn shop.

No pawn exchanges, no file-opening, no attack.

White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.

It's funny because from the time I was a kid, I knew what I was going to do. What's even funnier is that my dad and my grandfather didn't want me to work at the pawn shop, but I was deadset on it.

I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn.

The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

What do women want? To be treated like a queen; but by a king, not a pawn.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

'Silicon Valley' is a great show. It might be the best comedy on television. And if the Academy feels I have stood out to the point of deserving an award, I won't pawn it.

Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.

In a gambit you give up a Pawn for the sake of getting a lost game

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

It's like a golden rule in the pawn business: never cash a government check.

There are plenty of days when I would love to get in my truck, drive to work, walk behind the pawn counter and just do a regular job.

The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.

I concern myself with Venezuela. However, some rightwing movements are transforming me into a pawn in the domestic politics of their countries, by making statements that are groundless.

The fight goes on with or without me, I'm just a pawn. But at least I'm a pawn on the morally right side.

He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.

It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the centre and, in addition, to the opening of a file for the rook.

Don't get into this false sense that you are an individual when you're on Facebook. No. You're Not. You're a pawn in their scheme.

I've worked with and talked to poor people my entire life, being in the pawn shop business.

You can spend an extraordinary amount of time raising independent money to do a movie for very little means. I've done it with 'Pawn Sacrifice.'

Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf

When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while.

A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.

As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.

Always put the rook behind the pawn.... Except when it is incorrect to do so.

Al Sharpton is not important. He's nothing more than a black pawn in a very sophisticated white economic chess game.

The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.

I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign.

We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.

I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent.

It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.