Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Scott Westerfeld

Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.

John Eggers

They usually start one company and keep it. Innovators tend to start three companies in a lifetime because they get bored and they want to start over again.

Jeff Smoller

It started in '77 as just a rainy-day party, a bunch of friends, because we were bored and tired of the rain.

Tim Henman

There were times in 2005 when I was sick of tennis but I looked at it in the context of over 20 years competing. My school holidays used to be about which tournaments I'd play in. It's human nature to get just a little bored with it and that is the first time it had happened to me.

Mike Matheny

They're probably going to get bored with me because I'm going to start giving them pretty much plain, drab answers, just premeditated boring stuff.

Stacy Keach

It was Christopher's brilliant concept that he did not want this to become like every other sitcom where you do one take, and the audience gets bored with seeing it ten times, you know, over and over again.

Salman Khan

The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.

Flip Saunders

Our guys have to be stimulated mentally. I've always said this team gets bored at times. When you're forced to react, forced to move, you don't really have a chance to maybe think about getting bored. You just go out and your instincts take over.

Bonnie Raitt

I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I hear in my head I don't always know how to play. But I love to play over something else. I'm not a self-starter. I get kind of bored with the same three folk chords that I know.