Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roy Ayers

I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.

Roy Ayers

I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good.

Roxane Gay

I play on my phone in public quite a lot. I pretend that I'm getting a very important message that I must attend to immediately. You will often see me in the middle of a huge crowd just staring intently at my phone because I just don't even know how I should interact with other humans.

Robert Jordan

Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.

Robert Pattinson

They [Barnes Theatre Club] were a very good group, and for some reason when I finished the backstage thing, I just decided to that I should try to act. So I auditioned for Guys and Dolls and got a little tiny part as some Cuban dancer or something and then in the next play I got the lead part, and then I got my agent. So I owe everything to that little club.

Robert Manne

The Australian sees itself not as a mere newspaper, but as a player in the game of national politics, calling upon the vast resources of the Murdoch empire and the millions of words it has available to it to try to make and unmake governments.

Robert Englund

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

Tony Gilroy

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

Tony Gonzalez

It's important to me to be a complete player.

Steve Vai

It's always funny to me when people use the phrase 'Best guitar player in the world'. There are too many variables such as technique, uniqueness, emotional investment in the notes, etc. But If I had to pick one, it would be Tommy Emmanuel. Watching him perform can be a study in artistic and virtuosic human achievement.

Steve Lacy

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

Steve Lacy

I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.

Stephon Marbury

I could play ball all day. That's all I want to do.

Stephen Collins

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

Vannevar Bush

Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown.

Vannevar Bush

Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something.

Vanessa Paradis

I liked to play dress-up.

Vanna Bonta

Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?

Vanna Bonta

My body is the fruit of spirits' play.

Val Kilmer

The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

Vaclav Havel

If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.

Vaclav Havel

I have found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable reason is that good taste is a visible manifestation of human sensibility toward the world, environment, people.

Usain Bolt

Cristiano is better than Messi, without a doubt. He's more of an all-round player

Suzan-Lori Parks

My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, theres a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.

Suzan-Lori Parks

The first time I went over to [my director's] house, he said to me, This is a very strange play. I was pleased that he reminded me of that. [He] understands the play [VENUS] intellectually and emotionally and the humor, the funny bone.

Taryn Manning

I never wanted to stop. I feel like to the day I die I'll play guitar and sing.

Tariq Ramadan

Those organisations, al-Qaeda being the first one, have all settled in areas full of mining and oil resources or in geostrategic zones. They settled in Afghanistan which underground is filled with oil and lithium. North Mali is filled with mining resources (uranium). It is essential to question the impact and role of some international players that create or let those organisations settle there.

Taylor Swift

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

Steve Spurrier

We're not anxious to play L.S.U. again.

Steve Spurrier

Recruiting can be a little deceiving at times. You never know what you've got until you really, really play it out.

Steve Spurrier

I don't know. I always sort of liked playing [Georgia] that second game because you could always count on them having two or three key players suspended.

Stephen Mangan

I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldnt dignify it with the term band - get together and play.

Stephen King

If you want to play, you gotta pay.