Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The true object of human life is play.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

John Dryden

[T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez , or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely, of Time, Place, and Action.

John Mayer

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.

John Mayer

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

John Mayer

So scared of getting older I'm only good at being young So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.

John Mahoney

I've played a lot of roles I haven't wanted to play, either because they needed someone in the theatre or because they couldn't do it without me 'cause they don't have anyone else the right age.

John Malkovich

I don't mind what I play, really.

John Malkovich

You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.

John Malkovich

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

John Malkovich

There's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work.

John Lurie

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

John Lloyd Young

It was great to play for a live audience on a stage.

John Lydon

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

John Lithgow

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

John Lithgow

If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.

John Legend

I have a great band, with very talented players, and we give everything we have every night.

John Legend

I never went through a period where I didn't want to play music. I've always loved it and it's always been a huge part of my life.

John Leguizamo

I had to work with Ben Mendelsohn who's one of the great actors of our time. I had a lot of scenes with him and I was thrilled to be on the set with him; I just wanted to see how we were going to play it.

John Leguizamo

I don't know if tennis players feel like that but when you have a great opponent - although I didn't feel like he [ Ben Mendelsohn ] was an opponent - you just know your game is going to jack up and it's just going to raise the bar. I couldn't wait for that elevation.

John Lee Hooker

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

John Lee Hooker

I don't like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don't have no style. It's a deep feeling-you just can't stop listening to that sad blues sound. My sound.

John Kruk

You hear players, media people, say that it's tough to play in Philly in front of these fans, to those people I say: you didn't have the guts to succeed here!

John L. Lewis

No tin-hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes or bibble-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of labor, or divert its purpose to play its natural and rational part in the development of the economic, political and social life of our nation.

John Lahr

I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen.

John Barrowman

Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.

Jodi Kantor

Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romneys is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired.

Jodie Foster

Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.

Jodie Foster

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

Jimmy Dean

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

Jimmy Connors

There was never anything I wanted to do more than play tennis. Never once walked out there and thought, 'I wish I was doing something else.' Not once.

Jimmy Connors

Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.

Jim Leyland

I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if theres media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.