Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.

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.

Deepak Chopra

Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

Al Franken

Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.

Chuck Clarke

We told them that we would work with them and they have not come back with us, so nothing's really on the horizon right now.

Ryan Evanochko

Hopefully, this tells (the Horizon League) that we're dangerous.

Joe Montana

Unless they do a better job up front, neither one can throw from the horizontal position,

John Doran

He just comes at it from a more horizontal level.

Joe Davis

My original projections were for us to do about $2 million the first year and maybe $4 million the second. Toyota wasn't even on the horizon when we first started planning to come to San Antonio. That was another surprise.

Colin Wilson

Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?

John Byrne

Ultimately it's going to be better for the patient. It's going to transform otherwise high-risk operations into lower-risk operations.

David Rubenstein

For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.

Cecilia Bartoli

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

Benjamin Britten

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

Howard Thompson

The proceeds are used for the operation of the Bedouin Shrine Temple and to support our transportation department,

Charles Petzold

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

Bruce Beresford

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

Elizabeth Bowen

Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.