Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Lee

My dad had the idea in 1963. As a promotion, it's been a gold mine ever since.

Domhnall Gleeson

I'd seen my dad on stage, and that was fine, but the real excitement was - that was my dad. Even now, when I see his films, he's always my favourite person in the movie.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Whatever I did would be something they'd already done. I mean, my Dad would welcome it if I got a nose ring.

Robert Prunty

It isn't official and until his dad signs it, we don't know.

Robbie Coltraine

My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?

Venus Williams

I'm always on the court with my dad.

Samuel West

I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.

Wayne Rooney

Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.

Wayne Gretzky

Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, 'This is what we're going to do,' and bought an annuity with it.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Aldous Huxley

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

Albert Einstein

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

Albert Einstein

Play is the highest from of research.

Albert Einstein

Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the role they play in the transmission of ideas is lost in the background.

Albert Einstein

X + Y + Z X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Alexander Ovechkin

We're going to play our game and we're going to come back and we're going to play Montreal or Tampa,

Alexander McCall Smith

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; weve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.

Alexander Pope

And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

Robby Benson

I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my first guitar, I started writing music. I just love it.

Dr. John

In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.

Merle Haggard

The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.

M. Ward

I got into one Metallica record. That was about it. I never got into AC/DC or Black Sabbath or any of that. I was interested in the side of heavy metal that had interesting guitar ideas, but that was a very short-lived thing.

M. Ward

It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.

Mac Miller

I've been playing a guitar since I was 10 years old.

Lyle Lovett

I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living

Lyle Lovett

You have to be really good to get away with smashing a guitar.

Lucinda Williams

When the muse hits me, or the mood, or whatever it is, I get my guitar out and I empty it out. I just start going through things to see what's going to happen.