Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vladimir Kramnik

An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.

Vladimir Kramnik

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

Vladimir Kramnik

In the current FIDE World Championship, on the knock-out system, weaker players have good chances. Those, who in a long match would practically have no chance, here may creep through.

Vladimir Kramnik

Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

Vladimir Kramnik

For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.

Vladimir Kramnik

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

Vladimir Lenin

We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison.

Will Patton

I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.

Will Patton

I love things where I can be physical and I so love high stakes, and you usually don't get that unless you're doing a play or an action movie.

Walter Becker

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

Walter Becker

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well-known blues musicians.

Virginia Woolf

It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

Werner Klemperer

You know, I find it so difficult being a... as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.

Wayne Shorter

In an inconspicuous way, Gretchen Parlato knows how to play the same instrument that Frank Sinatra played. There's no one out there like Gretchen.

Wayne Rooney

For me, Scholesy's the best footballer England has produced in my time. The way he controlled games, passed the ball, saw things that other players didn't see; it was a pleasure to play with him and United were lucky to have him for so long.

Wayne Rooney

Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player.

Wayne Rooney

I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.

Wayne Rooney

Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

Wayne Rooney

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

Wallace Shawn

My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.

Wallace Shawn

I love going to plays. There's a subconscious side to it, obviously-some people like to be spanked for XYZ psychological reasons, and I like to go to plays, and I can't entirely explain why.

Wallace Shawn

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

Samuel Beckett

I cannot explain my plays. Each must find out for himself what is meant

Samuel Eto'o

The best player in the world; whenever Iniesta is on the pitch he creates a spectacle.

Samuel Eto'o

Id rather be selling groundnuts in my village than play for a pathetic club like Chelsea FC

Ryan Phillippe

Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician.

Rudy Rucker

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

Waqar Younis

He can play that leg glance with a walking stick also.

Josie Maran

I would love to play the Femme Fatale or an action role like Trinity in the Matrix or something like that. You know, a part with a lot of costume changes.

Joss Stone

If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.

Kojo Annan

I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.

Konrad Lorenz

The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but even that which is good and advantageous to the individual. [...] One asks, which is more damaging to modern humanity: the thirst for money or consuming haste... in either case, fear plays a very important role: the fear of being overtaken by one's competitors, the fear of becoming poor, the fear of making wrong decisions or the fear of not being up to snuff...

Kobe Bryant

I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. No matter what the injury - unless it's completely debilitating - I'm going to be the same player I've always been. I'll figure it out. I'll make some tweaks, some changes, but I'm still coming.