Play Quotes · Page 865

The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep…

— Vera Nazarian

You don't have the opportunity to win an Emmy unless you're given the opportunity to play certain kinds of roles.

— Joe Morton

Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may…

— Rodney Brooks

Given a full summer to practice basketball, and especially my jump shot, I know that I could play in the NBA and…

— Tony Gonzalez

In books, or work, or healthful play.

— Isaac Watts

All the top players in the world play 45-50-60 games. You need that many games, even the strikers need that many games.

— Sunil Chhetri

Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.

— Jon Winokur

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

There's never a perfect play for me.

— A. J. Green

I always try to be different and play varied kind of characters.

— Rishi Kapoor

and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own…

— Ani DiFranco

Whatever's asked of me, whatever my job is going to be on a given play, in a given game, I just want…

— Cooper Kupp

I tattooed my body so I couldn't fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn't get a normal job…

— Travis Barker

The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's…

— Harry Lloyd

On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play…

— Maya Angelou

I always look at the motives behind each scene. You can play that out tonally with how you express yourself or you…

— Aidan Gallagher

The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be…

— Plato

My target is to play as much as I can and perform well.

— Aaron Wan-Bissaka

I don't know what I am going to play, so how can he know what I am going to play!

— Arthur Bisguier

I've been doing it since I was prepubescent when I loved to scratch records and play good music. As it happens, you…

— A-Trak

I was teaching myself notes from three and then by seven I'd figured out how to play some chords, and at school…

— Ella Henderson

Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by…

— Diane Paulus

In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no…

— Rahul Dravid

Every striker is stronger when we play with wingers.

— Edin Dzeko

I have said from day one I see myself as a center back. But, if I am asked to play in midfield…

— Phil Jones

I had read the scripts that Nora Ephron had written as a movie about Mike McAlary. We were never able to make…

— Colin Callender

In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at…

— Laura Wade

Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we…

— William Shakespeare

It's the biggest challenge for any manager to play against the best team in the world, but for every player as well.

— Roberto Di Matteo

I started out as a folk singer, and kinda got sidetracked playin' honky tonks and such, but I was always a working…

— Ray Wylie Hubbard

If you play something well, I don't care what it is. I mean, I don't play an electric [violin] - I tried.…

— Itzhak Perlman

Fearless doesn't mean careless. There is a thin line between fearless and careless. I think we need to play fearless.

— Smriti Mandhana

But I still have to practice hard if I'm going to play my best tennis.

— Anastasia Myskina

Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game.

— Grenville Kleiser

Whether it be there with the New York Jets or if it be with another team, I have to do what I…

— Darrelle Revis

I know it sounds very typical to say, but the best part of being an actor, and the reason why I think…

— Jerry Ferrara

Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays…

— Arnaud Desjardins

I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I'm an Aussie who loves to play drums and other instruments first and foremost. The fact I want to be a queer…

— G Flip