Famous Quotes & Sayings

John McGraw

He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.

John Millington Synge

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

John Desmond Bernal

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.

John Dewey

The difference between play and what is regarded as serious employment should be not a difference between the presence and absence of imagination, but a difference in the materials with which imagination is occupied.

John Calipari

The best players I've coached make really hard things look easy. Like you may say, well, that was easy, and then, well, go try it. You think it's so easy, go ahead and do it.

John Carpenter

From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with them, electronic, but like an orchestra. And I could play it all myself. That was exciting.

John Carpenter

You play with everything you've got. I'm not a lover of cheap tricks. I've always loved playing with people, but there's no rule about it. You try everything you can.

John Battelle

We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives, either directly or indirectly.

John Berger

The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.

John Astin

I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.

Johan Cruijff

To play well, you need good players, but a good player almost always has the problem of a lack of efficiency. He always wants to do things prettier than strictly necessary.

Johan Cruijff

Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs

Johan Cruijff

In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly. A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.

Johan Cruijff

The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends to kick the ball in his own goal. It's because when you put intense pressure on him, he loses control. So you have to increase the tempo of the game and he'll automatically give the ball away.

Johan Cruijff

If you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball

Johan Huizinga

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Johan Huizinga

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

Joel Kinnaman

I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time. Even though it's only 200 people in the audience, and a movie like RoboCop is going to be seen by many, many people, I know I'd be much more nervous doing a play than being on set shooting.

Joe Lando

If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part.

Joe Jonas

I wanna go play my music in a club.

Joe Klein

Americans who feel the most ignored these days are not the screamers. They are the solid citizens who are sick to death of pols who play to the rant.

Joan Rivers

God always comes up with a third act twist -- and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy.

Jimmy Smits

It's great to be able to play the bad guy role because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always looking at the why. How does a person get to that particular point? It's those little cogs in the wheel that make it interesting for me to play. Ultimately, I hope for the audience to be engaged with it because it is going to take a turn.

Jimmy Fallon

They're making a movie about Barack and Michelle Obama's first date, called 'Southside With You,' and the producers say they've already cast someone to play young Barack Obama. Now, I'm not saying the president has aged a lot but that young actor is Morgan Freeman.

George A. Sheehan

Play is where life lives

Geoff Downes

Now with Pro Tools, you can play with layers and 100s and 100s of tracks. When we used to do it back in the day, you had one shot, or you would have to wipe it and carry on over that track.

Garry Kasparov

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.

Garry Kasparov

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

Garry Kasparov

The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and worked. All the changes of a cultural, political, and psychological background are reflected in the style and ideas of their play.

Garry Kasparov

Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play, assuming the rules and regulations allow them to play serious chess. But it will likely be a long time before anyone spends 20 consecutive years as number, one as I did.

Garry Kasparov

Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the opponent - it is precisely these qualities that distinguish great players.

Garry Kasparov

Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

Gabriela Sabatini

I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.