Quote by Raymond Chandler
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can fin

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. – Raymond Chandler

Other quotes by Raymond Chandler

They dont want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they cant use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them. – Raymond Chandler

Category:
Hollywood
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If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. – Raymond Chandler

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Hollywood
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Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. – Raymond Chandler

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Art
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Intelligence
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance. – Confucius

Category:
Intelligence

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasnt due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane. – Charles F. Bass

Category:
Intelligence

We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups. – Jane Harman

Category:
Intelligence

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union. – Aldrich Ames

Category:
Intelligence

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The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent. – Bob Riley

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Education

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard. – Aeschylus

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God

Baseball was the darling of all sports back then. – Marion Motley

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Sports

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. – William Shakespeare

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Love