Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miles Davis

Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.

Miles Davis

Play what you know and then play above that

Miles Davis

It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.

Miles Davis

If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.

Miles Davis

If you don't know what to play, play nothing.

Miles Davis

The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play

Miles Davis

I'll play it first and figure out what it's called later.

Miles Davis

You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.

Miles Davis

It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.

Milan Kundera

The river flowed from century to century, and human affairs play themselves out on its banks. Play themselves out to be forgotten the next day, while the river flows on.

Mike Leigh

I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.

Miguel Cabrera

I have a glove. I'll play anywhere.

Miguel Cabrera

If I worry about what everybody is saying, there is going to be a lot on my mind. I don't want that. I want to do everything I can to play basebal.

Mick Taylor

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female.

Marat Safin

You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.

Marat Safin

Many say that (Pete) Sampras is the greatest player. But I say with all due respect to the rest, that he (Roger Federer) is the most complete player in the world so far.

Marat Safin

There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.

Marat Safin

Wimbledon is not the tournament I love. I don't like how they treat the players. There are small things that don't cost them anything and they make such a big deal out of it. If they treat us this way, well, we have to treat them the same. We want to be respected, the way we respect Wimbledon, even if it is not the best Grand Slam on earth.

Marat Safin

Roger [Federer], he brought tennis... one level higher. Normally he toys with everybody. With all respect to other players, he does whatever he wants on the court against them. It's incredible what kind of game he can play.

Joseph Barbera

I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.

Joseph Addison

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

Laverne Cox

So often, trans roles don't even go to trans actors. Most of the fabulous trans roles that have won people Oscars, we didn't get to play. A lot of folks have said we're not trained enough and that we're not prepared to do whatever.

Laura Linney

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

Lance Berkman

I want to play every game of my career in an Astros uniform.

Lance Berkman

When I started to play consistently and produce consistently, that's when I knew that I could compete and do well in the big leagues.

Lance Henriksen

I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest chess player that could take random pieces of information and string them together into a scenario that was accurate. I never thought of him as a psychic at all. We need people like that.

Laini Taylor

We only get to be one person; we don't even get to choose that person. By the time we get ahold of ourselves, we are pieces already in play.

Lisa Leslie

If, by the way I play, I can be a role model or encourage someone else, that would be great.

Lisa Loeb

The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.

Lisa McMann

Feels like I'm in a play and I don't know all my lines.

Johnny Depp

I literally went from being unable to play my rent to being on a plane the next day, being paid peanuts.

Johnny Depp

Do what you really want to do. Don't play their game! Don't do what they want. Find your own way.

John Tukey

The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.