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

Charles Dickens

Discipline must be maintained.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We should discipline ourselves to read the Word until it comes alive...until we can almost feel the breath of God.

Chinua Achebe

Generally, I don't attempt to produce a certain number of words a day. The discipline is to work whether you are producing a lot or not, because the day you produce a lot is not necessarily the day you do your best work. So it's trying to do it as regularly as you can without making it - without imposing too rigid a timetable on your self. That would be my ideal.

Carolina Herrera

I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.

Bill Keller

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

Bill Keller

Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

Edward James Olmos

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do

Edward James Olmos

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them

Edwin Markham

The thing that is incredible is life itself.

Dionne Warwick

I've had some incredible moments in my life - thus far. I hope a lot more are coming.

Alison Brie

Ted Danson is amazing. He's incredible.

Donald Trump

I'm a big fan of General Douglas MacArthur and General George Patton.We have a few generals that have been so incredible to me. Now we have 200.

Claudia Cardinale

What's incredible is that I'm 75 and still working.

Craig Charles

My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.

David Geffen

It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Anyone ever tell you you're an incredible kisser?

Jorge Luis Borges

It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .