Play Quotes

Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.

If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.

Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I'm not an actor who can just play the kid.

I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.

We play some smaller songs larger than they are the record, and vice versa. It took me a while to get used to playing live.

Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is in play. Society has no obligation to try to rehabilitate evil.

On the days I'm pitching, it's almost a coin flip as to know if the guys behind me are going to be there to play 100%.

The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.

You're an idiot. You've screwed up every play we ever ran. You're too stupid to even remember the plays. We ought to get rid of you.

I did Chekhov's Three Sisters once. Two months in, I remember going, "Human beings shouldn't be forced to do or watch this play every night." It's so dark and so bottomless.

Homophobia is very, very difficult to root out, to extricate. That's why we have to bear witness. That's why we have to be so public about it, and that's why we can't just play footsie with it.

A lot of entrepreneurs let ego get in the way. You've got to be the conductor. You can't play all the instruments yourself. You have to get others to work together.

Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.

Everybody has to play a side because if you play both sides you a snake if you not a peacemaker.

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)

You kids shouldn't play so rough . . . somebody's gonna start crying.

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.

I chop and change between what is called 'work' and what is called 'recreation.' There are no discontinuities in my day. I only play tennis with people I find interesting.

It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.

Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?

I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.

I'm a Gibson guy. I play anything from Hummingbirds to J200s.

I think one of the great things about a football season is that you see teams play in all types of environments, and if you can't handle one of them, you probably don't deserve to win anyway.

United have more experience but we have a much better team and play much better football.

Diet plays in my opinion an important role during pregnancy

I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

It is just so cool to play on the beach right next to the water. I am deeply moved by water as I think most people are - so to play music with it is a most powerful experience.

I always say separate your abilities from your disabilities. You know, if I could play the violin, I don't have to play it standing up. I can play it sitting down and so on.

All chess masters can play one game blindfolded.

Don't play the way it goes. Play the way it is. And the way it is every time you play it, it's slightly different. Look for something. So that's the challenge not to be bored.

People are really much more respectful than they're made out to be and much more discerning about the fact that I'm not the character I play.

In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

The need to eat, sleep and dry out plays havoc with your sense of wonder.

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.

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

Don't mistake activity for achievement - practice the right way. - John Wooden I only play well when I'm prepared. If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

I generally play strong people and scary people.

I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

I got poked in the left eye on the collision. My vision is blurry in that eye. I had to play. It was for coach, and because it was a district game.

I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

I play bad golf for good charities like the LA Police.