Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected.

Charles Spurgeon

It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well.

Alan Watts

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.

Alan Watts

You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!

Alan Rosenberg

Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.

Alan Pardew

It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

Alan Rickman

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

Alan Rickman

I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.

Alan Rickman

I don't play villains, I play very interesting people

Venus Williams

I won Wimbledon because I wanted to be like her in Australia. I just want to be like her. But if she loses, then I'm like, 'Oh, man, now I have to do it.

Venus Williams

I won Wimbledon because I wanted to be like her in Australia,

John McEnroe

The only thing championship about Wimbledon is its prestige.

Ivan Lendl

I am not playing Wimbledon because I am allergic to grass.

John Newcombe

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

Steffi Graf

Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.

Richard Krajicek

But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest

Cathy Freeman

When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.

Bill Watterson

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

Dennis Prager

A bad mood is like bad breath. Both are wrong to inflict onto others

Dan Harris

I am still mostly a moron, I do get into bad moods, I am not a perfected being.

Douglas Coupland

Sometimes you can't realize you're in a bad mood until another person enters your orbit.

Dallas Willard

Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'

Maisie Williams

You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.

John Green

I stood under the awning for a moment, but finally I decided that being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

Thomas Frank

I was in a bad mood when I wrote that.