Play Quotes

Play the charts like the Beatles.

Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing

Being a son of the pastor, I was never allowed to play Joseph or any of the big parts for political reasons.

What twelve year old wouldn't want to play an evil wizard?

I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what I'm playing.

I wouldn't play in Minnesota unless my career was at an end and I had to go to Minnesota to play the game.

The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.

In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else's play.

It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.

How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.

In an inconspicuous way, Gretchen Parlato knows how to play the same instrument that Frank Sinatra played. There's no one out there like Gretchen.

Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

I think my own personal style always ends up seeping into characters that I play. I've always had a very distinct idea of fashion for myself, and what a character should wear.

What a fool honesty is.

Life is more fun if you play games.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.

I always play women I would date.

I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.

When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap.

I don't like to play slow or softly. I like to play hard. Always.

Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.

In jazz improv, there is no such thing as wrong notes, only notes that are better chosen and it's not about the note you play, it's about the note you play next.

When somebody can be intimidated, I use this. Because I'm very wise person. I know how to intimidate my opponents. I know how to play tricky stuff for them.

The only thing that was on my mind was, 'I want to play for India one day,' and I was pretty sure and confident that one day I will.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.

There was Shawon Dunston and Mark Grace, and together we were a double play combination for ten years

I love the Elvis movies. I used to watch them. In every single one of his movies he wasn't acting as a car salesman - he was acting as a car salesman who loved to play guitar.

I have a passion for life that allows me to make the most of my days and fill them with work and play.

The doctors told me I'd be fine if I play only golf and tennis doubles for the rest of my life. But I dive. I dogsled. I trek. I guess I'll have surgery.

I don't really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own sense of morality. In terms of the kinds of characters that I play, well, they could be anything.

If I just go out and play, the rest will take care of itself. That's what my parents taught me. They haven't been wrong yet.

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school.

All of my favorite songs can bring me to tears. Some are rock, some are blues, some are love ballads. That's why I play music - to touch other people as I have been touched.

I'm not against work, I think work is great, I work a lot; but if you want to play, the consequences must not be important.

If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.

Know that the outward form passes away, but the world of reality remains forever. How long will you play at loving the shape of the jug? Leave the jug; go, seek the water!

I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that genetics, upbringing, choice, social conditioning and environment play a major part in which way we sway.

I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into building a hole or two and teach him how to play.

Your money is like your willy, it only grows if you play with it

We play at the world's most beautiful beaches but in the world's most challenging conditions. It is not like you play one match and you go back to air conditioning. We do it all day long.

Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!