Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur C. Clarke

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.

Anton Chekhov

Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals.

Anton Chekhov

Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.

Bela Karolyi

The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.

Bela Lugosi

I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

Bela Lugosi

I never play without my cape.

bell hooks

Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.

Barry Zito

I need to have perspective. That's one of the big things former players told me, to not try to live up to anything, just live up to yourself.

Ban Ki-moon

My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics.

Arturo Toscanini

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

Diana Taurasi

Every generation has their own great players. Who's to say that anyone's better than Cheryl Miller or Nancy Lieberman? Whose anyone to say Michael Jordan is better than Oscar Robertson or Magic Johnson or Larry Bird? Every generation has its great player. There's never going to be one player that's so above and beyond anyone else.

Diane Ackerman

I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.

Diane Ackerman

American writer 1803-1882 Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.

Derrick Rose

I feel like I have everything else as far as being creative and athletic. But it's the little things that's going to push me over, like ball-handling, passing, boxing out when I'm setting screens. Little things like that that you would overlook that can make me a complete player.

Derrick Rose

Why can't I be MVP of the league? Why can't I be the best player in the league?

Desiderius Erasmus

Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?

Demarcus Ware

When you put the pads on...it's time to make plays.

Demi Moore

Look, when people came after me for doing 'Indecent Proposal' or 'Disclosure,' I thought, 'Ridiculous.' These people are trying to limit me as an actor. Are they saying I can't play these roles? Well, I've proved I can.

Demetri Martin

I love Buster Keaton and I love physical comedy when it's done in an emotionally understated way. I just like to play it, and I need the attention.

Demetri Martin

When I stub my toe it's like I pressed a button that plays all the curse words I know.

Dean Koontz

You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.

Daniel Handler

There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.

Daniel Handler

It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn’t know...

Bob Dylan

She can play my guitar note for note, she likes to stick her tongue down my throat.

Bob Dylan

The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.

Bob Dylan

I'm not a playwright.

Bob Dylan

Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest. It's two different titles,

Billy Casper

Play every shot so that the next one will be the easiest that you can give yourself.

Billy Crudup

Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.

Billy Corgan

It's wonderful to read interviews by old blues guys - they talk about all their influences, they talk about who taught them how to play, and who they saw, and how they were determined to play that way.

Bon Scott

The more people they can give us upfront the harder we play.

Bobby Fischer

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

Bobby Fischer

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.