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.

Albert Einstein

Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.

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.

Alex Timbers

I like musicals that look more like plays.

Alex Van Halen

Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.

Alex Winter

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

Alex Trebek

I have an Apple computer, which I use to play Spider Solitaire and do research on the Internet.

Alex Lifeson

I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing.

Alex Kapranos

Why play a chord when you can play one note?

Alberta Hunter

The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.

Albert Pujols

I don't play for records.

Debby Ryan

I feel like music does have a role to play in waking people up; it can be an alarm clock or it can be a lullaby.

Debbie Ford

When you trust the universe, you get to play in the magical world of God's plan.

E. O. Wilson

To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.

E. M. Forster

If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.

E. M. Forster

As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was something wrong with the story, so that's going to be no drawback as far as I'm concerned. "Good Lord, why am I so bored" "I know; it must be the plot developing harmoniously." So I often reply to myself, and there rises before me my special nightmare that of the writer as craftsman, natty and deft.

Drake Bell

Play every day. I don't know. I'm not sure what kind of advice I would give. You just have to do it every second that you can.

Drea De Matteo

I definitely play roles that are close to my persona. I was dying to be an actor, my whole life. I just always wanted to be someone else. Then, once I decided that I really thought I was pretty cool, I wanted to see myself.

Drew Bledsoe

The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play.

Drew Carey

When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.

Donna Karan

I'm very involved in my business and with my family and my friends. I don't play the social world very much, and not to promote my product. I do it for the philanthropic problems because there I feel that I'm making a difference, and that I'm helping. So I do it in a soulful way.

Don DeLillo

I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.

Donald Sutherland

I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working.

Don McLean

I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.

Dylan Walsh

It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to decide what you play. I don't know. I can only say this: I don't want to and have no interest in playing a plastic surgeon. That's for sure. I'm open to anything else.

Dylan O'Brien

I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.