Famous Quotes & Sayings

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

Evelyn Glennie

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

Evgeny Morozov

We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.

Eva Mendes

I hope to never stop growing. I hope that with every role I play, I keep adding layers to my craft. I love acting and I study religiously with my coach.

Evan Esar

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

Eugene Jarvis

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

Esther Hicks

Once you envision something and the Universal forces come into play to help you in the creation of it, there's never again going to be enough action for you to keep up with it. You can't use the Energy that creates worlds to create a situation and then find the action to keep up with it. You have to keep envisioning. You have to keep imagining it better.

Eugene Chadbourne

I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it.

Eugene Chadbourne

People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.

Ethel Waters

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.

Erykah Badu

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

Ernest Newman

The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.

Federico Fellini

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

Fabien Barthez

Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me.

Famke Janssen

I would rather not work than play in a movie that nobody watches.

Eve Myles

Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter.

Francine Pascal

The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

Fran Tarkenton

That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want to talk about mechanics.

Fran Tarkenton

Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays.

George Washington

Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't.

George Santayana

A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.

Chrissie Hynde

I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

Christian Bale

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

Chris Lowe

I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.

Chris Isaak

I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good.

Chris Isaak

The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's hard for them to figure out how to play what they like when there's somebody up above them yelling 'you have to play this.

George W. Bush

My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt.

George Shearing

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.

George Soros

Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

George Soros

The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.