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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I cannot speak in happy tones.

Tyler, The Creator

I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.

Adolf Hitler

Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

Charles Grant

But the tone will change, and in diplomacy, the tone is often the reality.

Cornel West

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

Mike Dunham

I think we took the play to them in the first period. We didn't give them anything, which set the tone for the game.

David Tom

First hole, making birdie, that kind of set the tone for the way the day was going to be.

John Knowles

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

David Farber

Don't look at me in that tone of voice

Darren Lockyer

St George won 11 premierships with one Raper, imagine how Canterbury will go with 13.

Andrew Johns

Not too many people know how hard I have worked since I broke my jaw. I have been flogging myself on the training paddock.

Graham Lowe

I'm 49, I've had a brain haemorrhage and a triple bypass and I could still go out and play a reasonable game of rugby union. But I wouldn't last 30 seconds in rugby league.

Gavin Henson

I've always said Scott is something of a rugby revolutionary.

Javier Bardem

I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.

Jonathan Davis

It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league.

Jonah Lomu

Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didnt just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.

Wendell Sailor

His body is changing. He will strip down and start getting even bigger and stronger over the next few seasons and, seriously, how scary is that? He will be unstoppable. He has just got to realise how good he is and what he can do in the game if he puts his mind to it.

Virginia Graham

The women sit, getting colder and colder, on a seat getting harder and harder, watching oafs, getting muddier and muddier.