Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Irwin Thompson

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.

Wilhelm Steinitz

No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years ahead of my time. I played on certain principles, which neither Zukertort nor anyone else of his time understood. The players of today, such as Lasker, Tarrasch, Pillsbury, Schlechter and others have adopted my principles, and as is only natural, they have improved upon what I began, and that is the whole secret of the matter.

Wilhelm Steinitz

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack

Will Arnett

I often get, 'Oh, you always play the asshole.' An asshole is somebody who knows that they're doing it, but continues to behave a certain way. The one sort of common thread to me has always been that these are imperfect people.

Walter Savage Landor

When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!

Walter Scott

As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.

Walter Scott

Fair play is a jewel.

Walter Hagen

The course is playing the players instead of the players playing the course.

Walter Dean Myers

What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.

Yo-Yo Ma

I play an instrument that has four strings, and I'm still trying to get it right. What I've tried to do in the process of playing these four strings is to try and understand the people I meet, the stories they have to tell. And then become an advocate for them and their stories through music.

Yogi Berra

I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.

Winona Ryder

Even though 'Heathers' didn't make a lot of money, I really was able to transition into a situation where people thought I could play an attractive role because of it.

Winston Churchill

I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.

Willie McCovey

I loved coming up with players in scoring position and I had to drive them in.

Willie Green

Thanks to all the fans from Detroit and Philly who are recognizing what type of player I am, and I hope they keep supporting the Sixers.

Willie Mays

Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.

William Sanderson

When you play so many outcasts and derelicts, or even a murderer, you need to play someone healthy.

Vinoba Bhave

Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.

Vincent D'Onofrio

So, it's always different. Some stuff, you want to do because it's a part that you've never played. It's always for story. Sometimes there's a story that you really dig, but there's no part that you're interested in. Sometimes you read a story and you say, "I could do that. I've never done that before. I could do play that part."

Vinnie Jones

In 'Hell Ride,' I play a biker - it's about the bikers. It's with Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen, Larry Bishop and myself. We're bikers, and I play Billy Wings; I've got all sorts of wings, and you have to watch the movie to find out what the wings are about.

I would advise all young musicians to not only experience and play chamber music, but to go to operas, speak to the singers, to explore and expand your horizons.

Woody Hayes

The players fire the coach, and as long as I'm on the same wavelength with them, I can coach as long as I want to.

Woody Guthrie

If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.

Woody Harrelson

In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

Winston Churchill

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.

Wilmer Valderrama

I play opposite Beverly D'Angelo, and that was definitely a great time.

Will Oldham

I do an opening, and then I go up to the high balcony in the back and watch the bulk of the play, but then I have to leave my seat about seven to 10 minutes before the end of that final big scene...and it's a bummer.

Will Oldham

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

Wes Montgomery

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.

Wes Moore

The importance of high expectations plays a big role.

Wes Moore

The importance of education plays a huge role.

Wes Anderson

I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done it - not since I was in 5th grade, really. But I've had many plays in my films. I feel like maybe theater is a part of my movie work.

Rudolf Steiner

We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are human in the truest sense of the word.