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Play Quotes by John Thorn
- The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.
- Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of…
- It says, I think, that at root that we're children, or we'd like to be. And the best of us each keep as much of…
- Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles…
- More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when…
- We play because we are wired for joy; it is imperative as human beings.
- Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we…
- As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of…
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- Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke. — Arthur Ashe
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just… — Margaret Atwood
- Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of… — Saint Augustine
- I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. — Paul Auster
- I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter… — Dan Aykroyd
- I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him. — Jensen Ackles
- It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and… — Johann Sebastian Bach
- I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father. — Amitabh Bachchan