Play Quotes

If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.

Everywhere I go, there are all these Big Star freaks, and they’re nice little guys who are usually in college, and they’re kind of lonely and misunderstood, learning to play guitar.

As long as there are games to play its not over

There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.

I actually have a stash of wigs for Halloween. But only for that. Not to play dress-up.

I've never really had a chance to play a bad guy, and that's something I've always really, really wanted to do. I wanted to experience that really dark side of a person.

I play better left wing. I prefer left, but I can play center or right.

I'm always looking for a chance to play somebody who's completely opposite of me, just because I find it more interesting.

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

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

And I have two eyes. I’ve seen that little melodrama play out between you and that other tracker. Fish? Flounder? What’s his name?

I started playing instruments. Writing didn't come until later. I didn't know how to play a keyboard but I'd listen to hits off the radio, learn them, then my hands would be ready to play.

In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.

Teams tend to fold if you come out and play hard in the beginning.

Davis Cup, you know, does take a lot out of you over the weekend. It's tough, especially if you play all three days.

The roots of art and play lie very close together.

Take away our play stations and we are a third world nation.

... everyone must play his role.

I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen.

When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.

The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.

I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music.

You must play boldly to win.

I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.

I play a lot of strategy games and team and reactionary games. So it's a different sort of skill that you're practicing.

The surest way to remain a winner is to win once, and then not play any more.

I think Iran is the kind of place where it's difficult to predict what's going to trigger structural change. It's hard to also predict the role that civil disobedience or mass protests could play.

You should really treat stand-up like you would a play. It's a one-man play.

The play is so close to the reality. . . . It comes out of the heart.

When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.

You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.

It's so fun to play a character that has so many layers that people won't even know, until the next season.

I suppose I am proud of what has gone on, after all I only ever wanted to play the guitar for a living, and that is what I am still doing.

I had a good run here, fifteen years. That's a great run. I'm not saying that I'm done in center field - if I could play there forever, I would. But I know that's not reality, so I'm happy.

Besides surfing, I play tennis, volleyball, I swim, I run hills, or I do high-intensity, high-interval workouts. I'm up at 5 A.M. every day.

In the Bhagavat culture worship of the spiritual master plays a very important role in our life.

Friday the 13th...I'mma play Jason!

I'm always looking for something that's real and that's got meat on it. I think it's artistic suicide if you're too vain, or if you're afraid to play ugly. I would never fall for that.

Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.

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.'

I had something nobody else could do - I sang in a way that separated me - and, when you're trying to get noticed, you play your trump card.

This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?"

Life is too short to play bad music

Develop a reputation as a person who, rather than talking a good game, actually plays a good game.

If you ever tell anyone about Jonah's sexual dysfunction, I'll never play music again.

Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.

To play nose tackle in the NFL, you have to be unemployed or crazy. I was unemployed. The other part is still up in the air.

I just liked to play football, no matter what the position.

How I measure success is getting to make another record and being able to the come back to the same town and play again cause you sold out the last time.

I don't play in tournaments, but I follow some.