Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carla Bley

I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.

Carla Bley

When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.

Alan Davies

I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.

Alan Cumming

I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

Alan Cumming

I was so scared of going back to the theatre after 'Hamlet.' I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.

Alan Cumming

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

Alan Cumming

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.

Alan Dershowitz

I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy.

Alain de Botton

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.

Jim Tressel

Maurice is going to be playing tailback on our scout team.

Megan played great. We're a young team, so I'm not too surprised that we had some problems.

Michael Lehmann

My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.

Scott Rolen

No different than any other year. Played it the same as every year, no swings the first time out.

Dave Tippett

One of the ways to make playoffs is to win your division. That was something we set out to do right from the start. We've got to keep pushing in that direction.

Terry Teachout

One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor.

One high-profile player tests positive, and look at the chaos. The problem, once again, is in the system.

Obviously. we're playing better. We're still not where we want to be. We're still a work in progress.

Bret Bielema

Obviously, you've seen him make plays out there. He's going to make some for them (opponents), unfortunately. We're trying to get those out of his system.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

Obviously, you can't replace a player like that.

My apologies to him. It's unfortunate it happened, but that's the risk we all take playing this game.

Dick Vermeil

Now the players are going to say we don't need to practice on Thursday.

Jim Tressel

Obviously, it was a different scenario than we've played under recently.

Obviously, after playing over there and losing, we had a little more to prove.

Eddie Van Halen

Jimmy Page is an excellent producer. Led Zeppelin I and II are classics. As a player he's very good in the studio, but I've never seen him play well live. He's sloppy. He plays like he's got a broken hand and he's two years old. If you put out a good album and play like a two year old, what's the purpose?

Eddie Van Halen

Bass is for people who can't play guitar

Eddie Vedder

Yeah, we'll play that. You want fries with that?

Eddie Vedder

If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.

Ed O'Brien

There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.

Eliot Spitzer

As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.

Elena Roger

I would like to play Broadway!

Elena Anaya

Surgery is a complicated thing to talk about, but I guess it could also be a dangerous thing to play with if you're not very secure about what you're doing.

Elfriede Jelinek

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language

Deepak Chopra

Delight comes only when our soul dances and plays with another.