Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Murray

I don't play any tournaments to come second best.

Andrew Flintoff

There are times when I have felt the pressure, but at the moment I play cricket the only way I can.

Ambrose Bierce

PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

Anthony Hopkins

I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.

Anthony Hopkins

I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative.

Anthony Kiedis

You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play.

Alicia Witt

Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.

Alicia Keys

The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.

Alice Cooper

We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different.

Alice Cooper

So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see.

Alice Cooper

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.

Andy Pettitte

I count it an honor to play with some guys that I've watched play on television, and may be in the Hall of Fame some day.

Andy Roddick

No, actually I wanted to play five. I definitely wanted to try to lose that fourth set and test the waters in the fifth.

Andy Roddick

Why would I get a wild card into an American tournament, (as the) top-ranked American? Why would that happen? That makes too much sense. Maybe I should play more Davis Cup, that's the story. Oh wait, I do.

Alastair Reynolds

The cards always look different when it's your turn to play them; loaded with subtly different possibilities.

Albert Brooks

If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.

Albert Camus

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

Albert Camus

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

Amelia Earhart

Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage.

Anna Pavlova

Play the last measure very softly.

Cindy Margolis

I know I play into that image out there, but I try to say it is a fantasy. I look at my own pictures and wish I could look like that. There are probably five people in this whole entire world who actually look like that.

Chuck Todd

It's hard not to get down on the government when you see dysfunction play out on our TVs every day. Frankly, sometimes at every level of government.

Alfre Woodard

I rather go to see a good play than be in one.

Alfie Kohn

Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.

Alexis Korner

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

Alexis Korner

In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.

Amy Schumer

I call myself a comic.But I started as an actress. I did plays since I was 5.

Amy Tan

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5

Anthony Braxton

I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.

Andy Van Slyke

I can only guess that, for guys in their 30s and 40s who watched me play, they understood that the score never mattered and my paycheck never mattered (in relation) to how I played. I played with Little League enthusiasm and professional flair. That's what fans are really looking for.

Andy Van Slyke

If everyone were like him (Mitch Williams) I wouldn't play. I'd find a safer way to make a living.

Andy Van Slyke

He (Ozzie Smith) plays like he's on a mini-trampoline or wearing helium kangaroo shorts.

Andy Summers

In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.