Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John Turner

I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.

James Kirk

The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play.

James Iha

And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.

James Gunn

I don't really like movies that are all one or the other. It's really about the play between both of them. Now that I've said that, there's actually lots of movies that I like that are one or the other but it's just not for me as a filmmaker.

James Gunn

The zombie is in a lot of ways the perfect horror movie bad guy. It plays on so many fears all at once. The fear of predators, the fear of disease and the fear of loved ones betraying us - the ones we care about are turning around and trying to eat us.

Laurence Sterne

The director is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's artistic concept of the play that the cast, staff, and crew work to obtain.

Laura Carmichael

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

Laura Carmichael

It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.