Play Quotes
13839 Play quotes by 7251 unique authors
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The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.
— C.S. Lewis
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The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.
— George Washington
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Men play the game; women know the score.
— Unknown Author
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Winter has caused damage everywhere: meadow and forest are all grey, where before you heard many sounds. If I could see the girls play ball…
— Unknown Author
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The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities…
— Albert Einstein
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A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything…
— Virginia Woolf
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Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the…
— Mary Caroline Richards
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The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night…
— Emily Bronte
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I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play upon…
— Stephen Coonts
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Don't market yourself. Editors and readers don't know what they want until they see it. Scratch what itches. Write what you need to write, feed…
— Donald Murray
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Though government has an important role to play in meeting the many challenges that remain before us, we are coming to understand that no organization,…
— William J. Clinton
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Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What…
— Robert Collier
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I was sleeping in the woods one night after a gig we'd played somewhere, when I saw this girl appear before me. That girl was…
— Syd Barrett
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If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an…
— Duke Ellington
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You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it...I always believed that I have something important to say and I said…
— Lou Reed
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As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
— Walter Scott
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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Everyone in this world is dealt a different hand-some better, some worse than others-but what's more important is how you play that hand. This is…
— Unknown Author
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When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost…
— Simon Baker
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Life is a journey towards truth, we have something to learn from each other, and everybody ought to have a chance to make the journey.…
— William J. Clinton
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Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright…
— Grenville Kleiser
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I think that everyone has an equal right to play and I think we've been supportive of that. With the Olympics and the controversy around…
— Sidney Crosby
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It bothers me when I hear these reporters and jocks get on TV and say: 'Oh, no guy can come out in a team sport.…
— Charles Barkley
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I've never been turned down for a role because I'm gay. I'm a character actor, and that's probably why. I don't find Hollywood, in my…
— Jane Lynch
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