Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Idol

They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.

Billy Gibbons

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

Billy Joel

I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice.

Billy Joel

I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.

Bill Rancic

A lot of entrepreneurs let ego get in the way. You've got to be the conductor. You can't play all the instruments yourself. You have to get others to work together.

Bill Parcells

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

Bill Parcells

When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.

Bill Parcells

Usually older players, late in the season, start to get cold.

Bill Parcells

There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those.

Bill Parcells

I don't have to make examples out of players to establish my own place. I don't feel like I have to.

Bill Parcells

Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked

Bill Parcells

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

Bill Parcells

Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.

Bill Kreutzmann

I am just a guy who plays drums.

Bill Keller

Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter.

Tim Finchem

I've never played golf with Tiger Woods. To tell the truth, I'm not sure that watching him pound it 100 yards past me all day is something I'd like to do.

Elaine Stritch

When I'm playing comedy, it is such a crap shoot of what will work and what won't.

Erik King

I've played a lot of cops. In fact, my father was a cop.

Edmond H. Fischer

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.

Ed Speleers

The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

Edward Hall

Oh, come off it, I've only directed three plays for the RSC.

Lesley Nicol

The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'

Katherine Parkinson

Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!

Jimmy Breslin

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

We are not a pretty team and to be successful we have to do the little things. We need to stack some wins together because playing .500 won't get it done the rest of the way.

Jane Asher

The rehearsal time is almost my favourite part of being an actress, particularly if you're working on a play that hasn't been done before.

Jane Addams

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

Jane Austen

Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.

Jamie Redknapp

You can't just play on the edge of games - you have to be in the thick of it.

Jamie Redknapp

You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.

Jamie Redknapp

Only one thing can stop Luis Suarez from being voted as the Players' Player of the Year... his fellow players

Jamie Lee Curtis

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

James Wolfensohn

As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little.