Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pee Wee Reese

If I had my career to play over, one thing I'd do differently is swing more. Those 1,200 walks I got, nobody remembers them.

Paulo Coelho

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

Mariska Hargitay

Eric Lewis doesn't play the piano, he devours it. He doesn't play music, he channels the divine.

Maria Sharapova

As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I'm going to play.

Maria Sharapova

Physically, I have to get a lot better, ... I have to play these three setters and the points are going to go on and on. This is not something that is going to happen overnight. I am only 18 and this is going to take time. My body is still growing and I'm still adjusting to my own body.

Maria Sharapova

The more matches I play, the more confident I get.

Rafael Nadal

You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.

Rafael Nadal

I play each point like my life depends on it.

Sherwood Smith

If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people." "And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

What are you doing out here? (Gallagher) Not much. Akri is off with that red-headed demon so he said I could go play just so long as I don’t eat nothing not cooked by a human. But all my favorite places are closed so I thought I’d go find the bears myself and see if Jose, since he’s human, would make me up something good that wouldn’t make akri mad if I ate it. (Simi)

Nigel Short

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

Nigel Short

I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw ...

Nicolas Chamfort

Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.

Nick Ferguson

The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.

Nomar Garciaparra

It's great that fans have people they can enjoy and watch play.

Norah Jones

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

Norah Jones

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.

Norah Jones

I don't want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that's it.

Nora Ephron

Food is one of my favourite things. Though I certainly know lots of people who happen to be happily married who don't have food play the role in it that it plays in my life. And I don't know how they do it, and frankly I feel so bad for them because I just love food and one of my favourite things is asking, "What do we want for dinner? What do we feel like eating?" That wonderful negotiation that goes on several times a week about what "we" feel like.

Niels Bohr

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

Nastassja Kinski

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

Nat King Cole

If I could read it, I could play it.

Nadia Bjorlin

I would love to play Wonder Woman; I have the abilities and the strength because I am definitely not the typical Hollywood actress.

Myrna Loy

Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant? How about a black person walking up the steps of a courthouse carrying a briefcase?

Monique Coleman

I play so young because of my looks.

Monica Seles

You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.

Miranda Leek

My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.

Mireille Enos

Every role that you play comes with its own set of challenges.

Miles Teller

I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero.

Mignon McLaughlin

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

Johnny Galecki

I'm not at all competitive. I'd rather play Solitaire than ping-pong.

John Wozniak

I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'.

John Wozniak

My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.