Steve Breen Quotes

Chess is a game of stimulation.

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart.

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.

Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

It's not 64 squares. It's a battlefield. There's no luck, there's no dice. It's just you and your opponent.

don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

Chess is not dominoes

Chess is a matter of vanity.

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever.

Not a time with him passed that I didn't say, "You should've been a comedian." [Vincent Price] was hilarious. He was just such a quick, funny wit. I don't think most people would think that about him, and it was really surprising to me. But man, the guy had a brilliant wit.

Whenever I travel I like to keep the seat next to me empty. I found a great way to do it. When someone walks down the aisle and says to you, "Is someone sitting there?" just say, "No one except the Lord."

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.

Let's focus on the funny. ... That's what I'm focused on... This is the gift God gave me. That's what I want to touch in people.

So I knocked on the door at this bed & Breakfast and a lady stuck her head out of the window and said: 'What do you want', I said, 'I want to stay here'. She said, 'Well stay there' and shut the window.

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.

Personally, I think Jim Henson said it best when he said "Anybody got an aspirin? I think I've got a cold."

Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.

He's a jokester, and that's funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny.