Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Carmichael

Id love to work in the States; Id love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.

Larry Evans

Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived

Larry Fitzgerald

When it's time to focus in and play ball during the season, 100% of my focus is on that. When it's the offseason and I've got time to be away and I can do other interests - they don't conflict. I'm good at compartmentalizing. I can put everything in its appropriate box at the time and open it up when I need to at a later time.

Larry Gagosian

I play hard. So the critical stuff doesn't surprise me or bother me.

Lamar Odom

You walk in our locker room and you see Pau Gasol, you see Andrew Bynum, you see Kobe, you see Ron Artest ... we have so many players that can play.

Liberace

I had to dare a little bit. Who am I kidding-I had to dare a lot. Dont wear one ring, wear five or six. People ask how I can play with all those rings, and I reply, Very well, thank you.

Liev Schreiber

Particularly with the plays I choose, they're good parts, and they're parts that have been around long before a bad actor played them, and will be around long after I play them. Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

Lester Bowie

You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.

Lester Bowie

The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.

Lester Bowie

We have the freedom to either play a tempo or not to play a tempo; to play a note or not to play a note; or to play what some people would say is a sound.

Lester Bowie

It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.

Lester Bowie

Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.

Gary Cherone

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.

Gary Cherone

The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

Gary Cherone

I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar solo in a pop rock record again.

Friedrich Schiller

Accursed be he who plays with the devil.

Harvey Fierstein

So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.

George Foreman

The world is full of people who want to play it safe, people who have tremendous potential but never use it. Somewhere deep inside them, they know that they could do more in life, be more, and have more -- if only they were willing to take a few risks.

Genie Francis

You can lose your ability to play romantic scenes... you have to ensure that your mind is in the right place.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Chris Chelios

You watched the game. It was undisciplined. It was uncharacteristic of how we have been playing and of what we wanted to do. It was very unacceptable. We had our chances.

You want to put yourself in a position to win. I feel like today I did that by playing the big points well.

You want to go to the playoffs winning, so you can get that swagger about yourself.

Henry Rollins

It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face.

Henry Rollins

Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello.

Henry Rollins

Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

Henry Rollins

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

Henry Adams

As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.

Henry Adams

The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism of yesterday and the materialism of today, were all emanations of divine thought, doing their appointed work. It was the duty of the church to deal with them all, not as though they existed through a power hostile to the deity, but as instruments of the deity to work out his unrevealed ends.

Henry Adams

As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further.

Henry Adams

My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.

Henry A. Kissinger

Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.