A Quote by Steven Wright

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

Steven Wright

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Buy Chess Entire Pawn Set Shop

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Steven Wright
American - Comedian
Born: December 6, 1955

Incredibly, while these 18 to 20 year-olds cannot legally buy a beer, cannot purchase a bottle of wine and cannot order a drink in a bar, right now they can walk into any gun shop, any pawn shop, any gun show, anywhere in America and buy a handgun.

Al Gore

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

Rick Harrison

Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly.

Ashot Nadanian

The pawn is the soul of chess.

Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

G. H. Hardy

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

Richard Reti

Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf

Cecil Purdy

And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.

Ezra Pound

Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess. It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd go down to the Four Continents bookstore and he'd buy any Russian chess material he could get his hands on. He'd learned enough Russian to get the gist of prose and he just absorbed the chess part.

Ronald Gross

My father had a perfectly good drummer who he had an argument with. So one day, on a Tuesday, my father came in with a cheap pawn shop set of drums and said, 'Put your foot here, and you kick there, and you play this, and this is the high hat.' And Friday night, I was playing in a honky-tonk.

Rodney Crowell

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

Siegbert Tarrasch

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

Adrian Rogers

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

Jeff Foxworthy

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.

Samuel Reshevsky

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.

Rick Harrison

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.