Play Quotes

The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

You never play age, you play character.

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.

As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.

My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.

Every natural movement is graceful. Did you ever watch a kitten at play?

I've always tried to play golf with a golf club. I have a hard time driving with my rifle. I mean, 18 is really narrow ... I have no problem with the course, except for the tee shot on 18.

I always practice as I intend to play.

I don't know how to play the guitar, so having to be on stage in front of people doing something you don't really know how to do, it's terrifying.

Augusta National is a young man's golf course, and you really need a young man's nerves to play on it.

I put the ball in play. That's what I want.

I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible

You play with your soul as well as your body.

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

I come to play everyday.

It's the opportunity to play something completely different, responding to what happened just before you started to play, and I love that.

Harriet Miers isn't qualified to play a Supreme Court justice on The West Wing , let alone to be a real one.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.

I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.

I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

I wanted to stay close enough so mom could see me play - where I could go home if I needed to.

Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.

Sometimes you just have to play in pain.

I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.

For an individual fully to play himself, rather than to sound like someone else, is possibly the hardest thing to do.

But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was.

Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you.

I wanted to play baseball!

As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.

If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.

Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe.

You're like my favorite song, Nova. The one that I never want to forget. That I want to play over and over again.

Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

Good big blokes are better than good little blokes. Then again, good little blokes are better than dud big blokes. And dud big blokes should play something other than Rugby

God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.

I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much.

A few guys will get up there with turntables as purists, to play vinyl or whatever.

We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.