Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Spader

For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to that and that is what I work from. Any research I do or any preparation I do on my own is all ultimately in service of that.

James Surowiecki

If you work for Google or Apple, stock options give you a chance to share in the increasing value of the company. In the N.F.L., nothing like this happens; the players, though rich, are just working stiffs like the rest of us.

James Merrill

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

James MacGregor Burns

Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.

Novak Djokovic

This time last year I would have said Federer would beat Sampras's record. Now I'm not so sure. His aura has gone. He's not as dominant as he was, and since I beat him in Australia he's looked frustrated. Players are beginning to challenge him now, especially myself and Rafa. He's got 12 Grand Slams to his name and maybe he will beat Sampras, but now I'm here it will be tough for him.

Novak Djokovic

I like my groundstrokes, I can say. I like it. That's my game - I'm a groundstroke player and I play pretty aggressive.

Novak Djokovic

Coaches are very important to players. They're people that are mentors, people that are advising them, people that should be their friends and somebody you can rely on on the tour.

Novak Djokovic

I don't like to compare years, honestly. I think every year is a different experience, a different challenge. You grow. You evolve as a person and as a player.

Novak Djokovic

I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man.

Novalis

Play is experimenting with chance.

Eric Roth

She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.

Epictetus

What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else

Emily Dickinson

It is easy to work when the soul is at play.

Elliott Smith

You can't get better at things you never play.

All the big players are now in the water.

All season we've played a lot of people. I'd say, out of our 29 games, I think 27 of them, everyone has played on our team.

And by the time the playoffs come, we'll be ready to make a run for the championship.

Gus Frerotte

And I didn't play well. I've got to step up and make better plays for these guys.

Hermann Hesse

At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological.

Hermann Hesse

Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was equivalent to being a very good mathematician.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.

Henrik Larsson

He(C. Ronaldo) makes the most difficult plays look easy.

Henrik Larsson

Cristiano is unlucky to be playing in the same era as Messi. Ronaldo is a very good player, but Messi is even better.

Henri Matisse

The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.

Heidi Montag

I’ve even written a role for Dolly Parton to play the town mayor!

Hattie McDaniel

I'd rather play a maid than be one.

Hod Lipson

We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.

Hoagy Carmichael

Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.

Herschel Walker

I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.

Henry Ford

Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry.

Helen Mirren

I don't get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great.

Helen Mirren

You have to allow life to play itself out.

Helen Mirren

With that incredible voice that he [Alan Rickman] could play like a sort of wonderful instrument, like a cello or something. He played his voice, and he could be the most subtle of actors. And he could also be quite a big actor. He could do the grandiose performances as well.