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1.
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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2.
The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.
Grover Cleveland

3.
We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.
Omar Khayyam

4.
Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential.
George Nakashima

5.
It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.
Viktor Korchnoi

6.
I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.
Bill Laimbeer

7.
I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
Mandy Patinkin

8.
I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.
Chelsea Clinton

9.
Well, back to the old drawing board.
Peter Arno

10.
I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.
Merton Miller

11.
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I.
Matthew Lesko

12.
I'm never surprised by the insensitivity of 'The New York Times' editorial board.
Joe Lhota

13.
I fundamentally believe in term limits, for Congress, presidents, and board members.
Jim Breyer

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I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.
Jason Mraz

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It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more inflation, not less. [I]f the overriding objective is price stability, we did better with the nineteenth-century gold standard and passive central banks, with currency boards, or even with 'free banking.' The truly unique power of a central bank, after all, is the power to create money, and ultimately the power to create is the power to destroy.
Paul Volcker

16.
Let's jump on board, and cut them to pieces.
Blackbeard

17.
Unlike any other player on the board, the press has no oversight, no mandate, few penalties, and even fewer consequences. Because there are not enough reporters on the ground, too many bureaus have outsourced both their reporting and standards to third party stringers whose spectacular videos of explosions and inflated body counts have shown up on both jihadist recruiting sites and American television screens, simultaneously.
Matt Sanchez

18.
Maybe life is a board game, but I never get to roll the dice.
Tim Wynne-Jones

19.
Occasionally you get that one person that says "I really like that one part of this joke" and you go, "Oh thank you that's my favorite part too." But no, in order for it to be authentic hopefully you have jokes that everyone can just get on board with and then you have a few things for yourself.
John Mulaney

20.
There is no ICC anymore. It is just BCCI. It is not International Cricket Council it is International Crime Council. If you take all the cricket board Presidents am sure they are all puppets. ICC is the toothless tiger.
Arjuna Ranatunga

21.
Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.
John Henrik Clarke

22.
Haters...are all failures. It's 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.
Joe Rogan

23.
Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something
Bobby Fischer

24.
I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
Henry David Thoreau

25.
A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.
Jose Raul Capablanca

26.
When you trade, the key concern is not always the value of the pieces being exchanged, but what's left on the board.
Dan Heisman

27.
I built up these lumber piles of love, and with fourteen boards each I built little houses, so that your eyes, which I adore and sing to, might live in them. Now that I have declared the foundations of my love, I surrender this century to you: wooden sonnets that rise only because you gave them life.
Pablo Neruda

28.
I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.
Viswanathan Anand

29.
To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind . . . is the task of the Freethinker.
Robert Green Ingersoll

30.
I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.
Anita Loos

31.
Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so often, few have mastered them thoroughly. They are often of a very difficult nature, and sometimes while apparently very simple they are in reality extremely intricate.
Jose Raul Capablanca

32.
Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board
Mikhail Botvinnik

33.
The bulldogs with the first points on the board. Tim Tebow looking to change that.
Verne Lundquist

34.
The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.
George Berkeley

35.
Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.
Alexander Alekhine

36.
Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.
Napoleon Hill

37.
I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You can talk all day, put all sorts of diagrams on the board, but a habit is not going to change. It's a conditional reflex, created by a repetitive act.
Pete Newell

38.
Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I'm in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world.
Jack Ruby

39.
The first time you get a ride on a surf board and you are being propelled along by a wave, it’s probably as close as humans can get to being able to fly like a bird
Gerry Lopez

40.
Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.
Stephen Bayley

41.
I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer.
Anne Campbell

42.
The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.
Howard Staunton

43.
And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.
Spike Milligan

44.
We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.
Ella Maillart

45.
Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.
Hugh Hefner

46.
Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.
Libba Bray

47.
The truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks government at will.
Louis Thomas McFadden

48.
The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire.
Charles Kingsford Smith

49.
You're asking if I'm happy? I've got 87 million in the bank, I've got a Rolls Royce, I've got 3 stalkers, I'm about to go on the board at Manchester City, I'm part of the greatest band in the world. Am I happy with that? No, I'm not! I want more!
Noel Gallagher

50.
No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin