Play Quotes

Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the chrystal streamlets plays; Come let us spend the lightsome days In the birks of Aberfeldy.

One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn't have. He couldn't play basketball because he didn't have tennis shoes - so I had five pairs of tennis shoes.

All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God that'd be a boring career.

There's the inherent value of the arts in terms of what that does for the quality of life and culture. The arts - in my case theater, play-writing - is all about community.

Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.

I play a lot of computer games. I love computer graphics. I've had Pixar in me for a long time.

I don't just want to play in the playoffs. I want to win the World Series.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.

I have to tell you, and I don't mean this as sour grapes or anything, but it is hard to play for fans who see you all the time, makes it much harder.

Once you try, golf is the hardest game you'll ever play.

It's very important to set your place in a concrete environment. I think Chekhov said that the important thing when you have a play or any kind of novel is to set the roots in a concrete place.

The play takes place on a ramp, hanging from a ramp, below a ramp, and to the sides of a ramp.

Your body is your instrument, you play it expertly.

We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!

Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.

I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.

You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.

It would be really nice to make a record that would be super-fun to play live - a record that would be funny, with a little bit of heart.

When you have a play, you have to be on every night.

I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in Canada to call me every four years - which they do - and I go up there and play a leading role.

When I am on set or rehearsing for the play, the only thing I can talk about is the work I'm doing. In that way, I home in on what I am doing at the time. So maybe I am a terrible multitasker.

I've been dealing with so much press for Brooklyn, and now I am rehearsing for a play, and it is hard.

I could never have thought, "I wanna play a two-headed woman." That just never would have occurred to me, in a million years.

Whether that's an action film or a comedy or a drama or anything in between, I'm willing to prove that I can play with the big boys.

I must play the instrument I've got.

To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.

My dream was to play Major League baseball. I've lived that dream.

You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don't want them in power.

It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

I think this generation can play a very important role. If we act now, this could be the first generation to witness universal education.

Villains are not fun for me to play, as such. But caricature-ish, intense behaviors that are based on real human traits are interesting. That makes an interesting story.

I want to play a strong, kickass girl in heels. I'm better in heels. I can run faster in them than in flats.

Mixed doubles are always starting divorces. If you play with your wife, you fight with her; if you play with somebody else, she fights with you.

Everyone is fighting like crazy because it's the last Grand Slam. When you play the Grand Slams, you just have to give everything you have.

I don't play games with people's lives like you do.

The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.

Id rather be able to play great tennis at a slam than make eight finals of little tournaments and then lose first round of a slam. That doesnt sound too good.

I want to play everything. I really want to do it all.

And, in order to possess the Truth, the plays of the lower nature must be stopped.

Tennis has always been a big challenge to me and to be able to play that kind of tennis - well, only tennis can produce these feelings for me.

Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from.

I'm always very self-conscious and assume the way faith or religion might come up in my plays will seem very harsh to people of faith, or who are currently practicing.

I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have to be ruthless.

I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.

Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.