Play Quotes

We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives, either directly or indirectly.

The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.

In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye to take in the meaning of the print as do the black letters.

The Imagi-Nation is a little country in your head. When you're young, you go there to play. When you get older, you go there to worry.

Profile of a winning team - They play to win. They have a winning attitude. They keep improving. They make their teammates more successful.

If you're going to play together as a team, you've got to care for one another. you've got to love each other.

There are two paths people can take. They can either play now and pay later, or pay now and play later. Regardless of the choice, one thing is certain. Life will demand a payment.

With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play.

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

I do remember realizing one day that I loved plays more than I loved playing concertos.

I'd never even seen a play by the time I was 24 years old.

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself.

I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the play-ground.

Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent in forming manners.

A good song is a good song, and good musicians can play all different styles.

If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

Over the years, autism has almost been a diagnosis in the eye of the beholder, which allows for all kinds of arguments and dissension and theories and competing therapies to come into play.

[T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez , or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely, of Time, Place, and Action.

Even kings but play; and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne.

Hell, I'm going to play pro basketball. I'm going to maybe be famous. I'm going to write books.

There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their weeks exercise.

You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.

We need to talk to all the players in the Middle East, not because we agree with them, but because they play a role.

Have you heard Alanis Morisette trying to play the harmonica? She doesn't know how to play the harmonica. Well guess what, Alanis, I INVENTED the 'don't-know-how-to-play-harmonica-harmonica-solo.'

You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other.

Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.

I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18.

Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind.

She waited for me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the breadcrumb tail until it dead-ended into her.

We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time

There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.

Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. It seems like spelling out mysterious, musical details can destroy a play by making the motivations too clear, too simplex.

Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.

Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed.

Oh god, I'd just hate it if a certain dramaturg got a hold of a Pinter play, for example, which are all mystery and all music. That's how the life get's sucked out of plays.

I think that some of these plays are lost in this new horror called development, which is a place for dramaturgs to say "let me tell you what your play means," and the life gets sucked out of a play.

People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it. Like it was left it in the oven too long.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.

I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.

I was always fascinated with the way that things pop on the Internet - the ways you build communities and create little stories and ideas that people play around with and send back to you.

I stopped asking a long time ago, "why would you want me to play that?" I'm an actor. That's what I do.

If you put on an Oscar Wilde [play], it will interest those who are interested in Oscar Wilde. But it won't interest anybody else, because they won't get that wit.

In the States it's more and more difficult to get an independent film off the ground, and you certainly wont get the opportunity to play something like that in a studio movie.

I listened to lots of other kinds of music, but punk is what allowed me to actually play music.

In the end it is the musician who actually plays the notes. The impresario - or the project leader - is only there to make sure that happens. That is a very different type of management mind-set.

Performers may play in the studio, but they need to go out and tour every once in a while to keep their edge, or a performer who is a stranger may be asked to "sit in" on a set.