#board

If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again. ↗

— William Kidd

#again #come #go #her #may

I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#back #because #before #brain #character

And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

#grand #hard #i #i think #keyboard

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#better #board #calmly #chess #good

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#cent #corporate #fifteen #heads #hundred

Our people were very restive, saying that they could not sit under that notice, and that if the National Board did not call them out soon they would go out of themselves. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#call #could #did #go #national

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#board #chess #effect #except #flowing

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#before #board #every #existence #five

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#aircraft #aviator #becoming #carriers #challenged

My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#biology #boarding #boarding school #enough #experience