Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rod Laver

There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.

Robin Trower

Oddly enough, Hendrix is not my favorite guitar player. There are very few guitar players I get feeling from.

Robin Trower

I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

Robin Trower

I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.

Roberto Alomar

Some plays just come out of me, just on instincts. I'll make a play and wonder, How did I do that?

Robert Schumann

You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.

Robert Schumann

Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.

Robert Schumann

When you play, do not trouble yourself as to who is listening. Yet always play as though a master listened to you.

Robert Schumann

Play always as if in the presence of a master.

Robert Pires

I did not dive and I am not a cheat. That is not the way I play.

Robert Pinsky

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.

Robert Plant

The essence of Bonham is what he didn't play rather than what he did play - what he left out.

Robert Plant

I want to play tennis and fornicate.

Robert Loggia

We rehearsed our Scarface to the nines. Long period of rehearsal, so that by the time we started to shoot, it was almost like doing a play. We all had a grand time doing it. It was a wonderful cast.

Roger Goodell

I talk to players all the time.

Roger Goodell

I have to make a lot of decisions that aren't in the best interests of individuals, whether they be owners, club executives, players.

Satoru Iwata

Some argue that our success is short-lived and temporary. So, we now need to make efforts to constantly expand the player base by offering services and titles that can appeal, not only to those who have never played games, but also to those who play them hard.

Sarah Lewis

Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning.

Sarah Kane

But you have friends. You have a lot of friends. What do you offer your friends to make them so supportave. What do you offer your friends to make them so supportave what do you offer. " ...if I could remember any more of my lines I'd add them so basically this is a preface to the whole play. I would like to quote the whole play. Currently my mind is afraid to remember the play.

Sarah McLachlan

I play piano every day.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.

Yusef Komunyakaa

I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.

William Hague

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

William Hazlitt

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

William Hazlitt

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them

Wendell Pierce

The whole idea of jazz came about was the interpretation of the human dialogue, trading fours. When someone's soloing and someone picks up the solo and plays it back at 'em, it was the imitation of the human dialogue. It was how people spoke, through music.

Wendell Pierce

When you're doing comedy on stage, it's great because you have the audience there and they're like another actor in the scene. You feed off of them, laugh. But in film when everyone's quiet, it's all about timing. But the key to that is to be authentic. Be in the moment, and if you play the moment truthfully, the humor will be there.

Walter Pater

But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour, odour, texture... And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world... the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind.

Walter Raleigh

Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.

Vladimir Nabokov

Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!

Young Jeezy

Anybody that I ever dealt with knows that I'm a very focused individual, and when it comes to my work and what I do, you might have to play the back burner to that.

Yani Tseng

You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.

Xavi

The way I see it, Messi is the best player in history. He is the one who changes the course of games; he's the best. There is no comparison in my view; he's the world number one and by a margin.