Top 672 Pawn Shops Quotes & Sayings

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

I think that people have been looking at 40 years of flat wages. You know, the reality is you've got folks in diners and hair shops and barber shops all over this country who look at their own lives and think, you know, "My parents did better than I'm doing and my kids might not do as well as I'm doing." And that's because wages have been slashed for so long.

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.

White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.

I'm a real pawn-shopper.

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.

An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.

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.

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

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

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

There is no point mucking around and saying we are just going to have one or two shops and that's it... we are going to reach, you know, 40 shops around the world. I want 150 shops in China.

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

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

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

This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.

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

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

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

I saw with open eyes, Singing birds sweet, Sold in the shops, For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of, Stupidity Street.

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

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.

I think one day I can make a book about coffee shops in Hong Kong. I spent almost most of my time in coffee shops, in different coffee shops.

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

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.

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

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

I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.

Building a consistent experience and firm identity was instrumental in our ability to swiftly build our online presence, open four stores as well as a mobile store in a converted yellow school bus, and launch six shops-in-shops.

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

Now I have the pawn and the compensation.

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

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

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

I'd rather have a Pawn than a finger

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

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.

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

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

The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard

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.

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

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

I think our slow, humble beginnings in surf shops, ski shops, bike shops, and motorcycle shops have been extremely important for our success. GoPro is all about celebrating an active lifestyle and sharing that with other people. It's authentic. It's not a brand that we went out and bought a bunch of ads for to create.

Pawn shops have been around for thousands of years - they were the number one form of consumer credit up until the 1950s, but we were vilified by Hollywood. We were easy people to vilify.

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.

Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf

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

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

Selecting what gets sold in smaller shops and online is a long and artful process, it takes precision and care. The people who stock the successful vintage shops are great buyers, and you pay for their skill as well as the quality level at which they sell their clothes.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

There are apothecaries' shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers' shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price.

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

The pawn is the soul of chess.

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