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.

Danny Elfman

In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And there are other pieces which are really about - okay, the melody is going to start here and play through to here.

Amanda Plummer

I don't play roles everybody likes. I'd rather have a career I'm proud of. Like everyone else, I need to eat. But I'm a very unbusinesslike person, and I keep my price low. I'm not a mass product. I'm not everyone's cup of tea.

Amanda Peet

I wrote a play before that and it never saw the light of day. And then I started working on this play and it came out really quickly. Eventually I got it, and I wrote a letter to Sarah Jessica Parker and she wanted to do it. So that's how it happened.

Andrew Zuckerman

Play in curiosity is where everything happens.

Andrew Wyatt

I don't judge people who just hit "play," but I would judge myself if I did that. I wouldn't feel like I was earning my money, I'd feel like I was putting one over on people. I have to play the notes.

William Shakespeare

Play out the play ...

Robert Fripp

The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.

Robert Frost

I play better tennis because the court is there.

Stu Jackson

This was another perfect storm of sorts in that the timing was such that he wasn't available.

Nikola Tesla

Throughout the infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe.

Miranda July

The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy to imagine that the other person is living a perfect life.

John Ruskin

Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.

Mark Twain

Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

Mark Martin

I'm far from perfect but I have managed to earn a good deal of respect by trying to implement the kinds of things you learn about.

Ben Roethlisberger

I don't think we're there yet. But we got the win today. That's what's most important. It wasn't a perfect game. But it was a win.

Laura Linney

Fortunately, I'm in a perfect position for me. I'm able to work, have a wonderful time, and I'm not really a celebrity, and that's great.

Jean-Claude Juncker

The European family may well be anything but perfect.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Alvin Lee

I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do

Ally Condie

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

Anthony de Mello

A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. "Tell me, O Master," he said, "why you have come into this world." "To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters.

Anna Lindh

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

Angela Lansbury

It was an extraordinary experience to have backup singers like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. I have never experienced anything quite like it before and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

Angela Davis

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

Anne Roiphe

I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on.

Anne Sexton

All in all, I'd say, the world is strangling.