Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Euwe

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player

Maurice Baring

A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards make an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play.

Maurice Ashley

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.

Matthew Macfadyen

I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.

Matthew Macfadyen

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.

Matthew Macfadyen

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

Matthew Lewis

Alan Rickman told me to do a play, so I did. Because when Alan Rickman tells you do something, you go and do it.

Matt Millen

Mark my words: If Shaun Rogers is healthy, he'll be the NFL defensive player of the year.

Matt Lucas

If I ever play Hamlet, it'll be in a dress!

Mayer Hawthorne

Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.

Maya Lin

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

Maynard James Keenan

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

John Ruskin

The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.

John Peel

All I ever wanted to do was hear music that I like and play it to other people

Norbert Leo Butz

If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play.

Norma Shearer

Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler.

Nolan Bushnell

In 1989, SimCity introduced an entirely new brand of game play.

Noel Gallagher

I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's so f... happy.

Noel Gallagher

People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell 'em. I don't like 'em. I'll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player's mam or summat, but I'm afraid that's just me.

Noel Gallagher

The Who always play 'I Can't Explain'; and we'll always play 'Wonderwall'. People ask us if we get bored of it. You can't get bored of 15,000 people shouting for 'Wonderwall'. That's better than drugs. You get a hard-on when you hear that.

Noel Gallagher

I've always been into guitars... we want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.

Noel Gallagher

No matter how much you sit there twiddling, going, 'We're all doomed', at the end of the day people will always want to hear you play 'Creep'. Get over it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.

John Frusciante

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

John Frusciante

Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.

John Frusciante

I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.

John Evelyn

I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.

John Fahey

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

John Entwistle

I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that.

John Entwistle

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

John Densmore

I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies.

John Elkington

Behavioral change is more important than individual product choices. They both have a role to play.

John Eldredge

Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is.