Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark E. Smith

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.

Ned Colletti

Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.

Pierre Corneille

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

Philip Yancey

As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.

Pedro Martinez

I'm open to play for anybody that would give me respect, treat me the right way, and actually going to make me feel comfortable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

Les Paul

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

Joseph Campbell

Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.

Joseph Pilates

Contrology is designed to give you suppleness, natural grace, and skill that will be unmistakably reflected in the way you walk, in the way you play, and in the way you work.

Katey Sagal

When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.

John Fahey

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

John Elkington

Behavioral change is more important than individual product choices. They both have a role to play.

John Millington Synge

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

John Carpenter

From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with them, electronic, but like an orchestra. And I could play it all myself. That was exciting.

John Astin

I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.

Johan Cruijff

If you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball

Joel Kinnaman

I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time. Even though it's only 200 people in the audience, and a movie like RoboCop is going to be seen by many, many people, I know I'd be much more nervous doing a play than being on set shooting.

Joan Rivers

God always comes up with a third act twist -- and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy.

Jimmy Smits

It's great to be able to play the bad guy role because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always looking at the why. How does a person get to that particular point? It's those little cogs in the wheel that make it interesting for me to play. Ultimately, I hope for the audience to be engaged with it because it is going to take a turn.

Geoff Downes

Now with Pro Tools, you can play with layers and 100s and 100s of tracks. When we used to do it back in the day, you had one shot, or you would have to wipe it and carry on over that track.

Gavin DeGraw

I love to play music.

Tubby Smith

When a team shoots 72 percent, you're not really playing much defensively.

David Mamet

The correct unit of study is not the play; it is the scene.