I'm playing checkers while they're playing chess
They make the big moves that make me a little less
Even when I win and beat the pants off of the best
I'm still playing checkers while they're playing chess


Billy Joe Shaver

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Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
BILLY GRAHAM
Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they...
BILLY GRAHAM
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
BILLY WILDER
You look marvelous.
BILLY CRYSTAL
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ...
BILLY WILDER
I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
BILLY WILDER
They say there's a heaven for those who will wait. Some say it's better, but I say it ain't. I'd rat...
BILLY JOEL
There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than...
BILLY JOEL
Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
BILLY CRYSTAL
I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes. And I...
BILLY CORGAN
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
BILLY JOEL
What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the ...
BILLY CORGAN
The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's grea...
BILLY EVANS
Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threat...
BILLY CRYSTAL
I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.
BILLY CONNOLLY
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attai...
BILLY CORGAN
When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and fam...
BILLY BALDWIN
No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our chil...
BILLY GRAHAM
When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn...
BILLY IDOL
I had all kinds of allergy problems with certain meats, and with fruits and vegetables with pesticid...
BILLY CASPER
I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and fre...
BILLY COLLINS
I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.
BILLY CRYSTAL
I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.
BILLY IDOL
The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new mor...
BILLY GRAHAM
Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little...
BILLY GRAHAM
Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.
BILLY MITCHELL
Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get do...
BILLY GRAHAM
There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for tel...
BILLY CRUDUP
Everybody wants to be a better version of themselves - everybody. And I hope one day I can lose some...
BILLY GARDELL
I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there...
BILLY GARDELL
We've got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us b...
BILLY BEANE
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other ma...
BILLY GRAHAM
I know my voice has a limited range of motion; I don't write dramatic monologues and pretend to ...
BILLY COLLINS
Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
BILLY SUNDAY
No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, an...
BILLY GRAHAM
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
BILLY WILDER
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declar...
BILLY GRAHAM
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
BILLY GRAHAM
Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being pe...
BILLY GRAHAM