Plays Quotes

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You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy… — Harvey Diamond
It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly to create the… — Marva Dawn
Every team has kind of a style or adjectives people use to describe the game that the team plays. — Rachel Martin
Keep evolving. Keep reading plays, doing plays, but also be sure to expand your horizons as much as possible. You only have yourself to bring… — Gideon Glick
I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing. — Jeff Daniels
It's more than usually possible that I won't do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language. I… — Bill Nighy
Somebody asked me recently, 'Have you done a lot of plays?' I thought hang on. I used to do nothing but plays. I've been very… — Bill Nighy
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at. — Horace
English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Shakespeare scholars just sigh and consign the book to the great pantheon of revelations .. I am accustomed to fanatics who get a funny look… — William Shakespeare
ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an… — Ambrose Bierce
And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion. — Herman Melville
The weekly cartoons, as were my plays, came from a sense of criticism, criticism of the times, critical of the culture, of our manners and… — Jules Feiffer
The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays… — Henri Matisse
As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays… — Auguste Rodin
I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age. — John Evelyn
Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game. — Wendell Phillips
Ben Affleck (who plays A.J. Frost) and I got to actually go into the neutral buoyancy tank in actual $10 million spacesuits the astronauts wear… — Bruce Willis

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