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

Ronald Koeman

We know we can surprise them, but we must also respect Barcelona and acknowledge that they have a great team. Nothing is impossible.

Carlo Ancelotti

Milan and Barcelona are two great teams, maybe the best in Europe at the moment. I expect two beautiful games, exciting and entertaining matches.

Neymar

Right now I'm living my boyhood dream, which was to play for a European club. The fact that it's a huge club like Barcelona makes it a tremendous honour. I like everything about the city: the climate, the people. It's quite similar to Brazil, which helps a lot. There's even a beach!

Leigh Lezark

Barcelona is one of my favourite cities in the world. The fashion and people are just so effortlessly cool.

Bill Alexander

The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people.

John Tesh

When I was first writing, I was writing mostly about sporting events, which was really what my assignments were. I was working on the Tour de France bike race and the Barcelona Olympic Games, and those songs tend to be very big, very bombastic-type music, which is the type of music that I love to write.

Luis Suarez

Barcelona are always a candidate to win the Champions League.

Thomas Schaaf

I am delighted with the result and how we played. It is good that we could focus on this match with the Barcelona tie just around the corner.

Colm Toibin

'One Minus One' and 'Barcelona, 1975' are more or less autobiographical.

Chris Cleave

I'm not happy with just repeating myself.

Benjamin Walker

I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they're doing.

Carlos Ghosn

I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

Dyan Cannon

Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.

Donna Tartt

If I'm not working, I'm not happy. That's it. That's the prerequisite for me for happiness.

John Candy

If you're not happy without it, you'll never be happy with it.

John le Carre

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

Julia Ward Howe

I never could be good when I was not happy.