Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pinetop Perkins

I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel.

Pinetop Perkins

I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.

Pierre Berbizier

If you can't take a punch, you should play table tennis.

Pierre Corneille

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

Philippe Falardeau

In the province of Quebec where I come from, we speak French and the only cosmopolitan city is Montreal. Every time we tackle the subject of immigration and racial tension, it's an issue that concerns Montreal. Also, in Quebec, we have this added issue that we want people to speak French, because French is always on the verge of disappearing to some extent. I work, play and do everything in French.

Philippe Falardeau

I work, play and do everything in French.

Philip Rivers

I've already developed trust in my teammates -as a player and as a person.

Philip Rivers

Anybody who has watched me play knows I'm not one of the fastest guys, but I understand what's going on around me and what to look for. I know what the defense is doing.

Kelly Reilly

I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take risks.

Keith Emerson

I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.

Keith Jarrett

If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.

Keith Jarrett

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

Keith Jarrett

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

Ramakrishna

God had created the world in play.

Ralph Ellison

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

Raine Maida

When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.

Rainn Wilson

I used to play a lot of chess and competitive chess and study chess and as you get to the grandmasters and learn their styles when you start copying their games like the way they express themselves through... The way Kasparov or Bobby Fischer expresses themselves through a game of chess is it's astonishing. You can show a chess master one of their games and they'll say "Yeah, that is done by that player."

Rachelle Lefevre

I'm a workaholic because I love to play, if that makes sense.

Rahul Dravid

In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.

Rahul Dravid

I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.

Terry Brooks

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

Teresa Medeiros

You care enough to play hard to get.

Tennessee Williams

Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as "that old derelict." Not to my face, but behind my back.

Terence McKenna

Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.

Teddy Wilson

Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.

Teddy Wilson

If it's enough money, I'll play the North Pole.

Teddy Wilson

[Goodman] became famous (or notorious) for staring at a player he didn't like. It was called 'the ray' by his men.

Teena Marie

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

Ted Williams

You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.

Temple Grandin

The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play.

Ted Lindsay

I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

James Merrill

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

James MacGregor Burns

Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.