Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rahul Dravid

In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.

Rahul Dravid

I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.

Rahm Emanuel

We're proud of the work we're doing to make Chicago a great city for people of all ages. Nothing's more important than keeping in mind the needs of older adults - and how valuable a role they play in improving the city, based on their amazing collective talent and wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbours, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play, and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

Sean William Scott

I consider myself to be a good guy so it's not hard for me to play that.

Scott Ritter

If you want to play the game of truth, I'll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.

Scott Rolen

I hope I haven't maxed out, because I'm not satisfied. I hope I can be a better ball player, and I hope I'm on my way.

Scott Rolen

I enjoy coming to the ballpark every day. I don't go to work. I come here to play.

Sayed Badreya

Usually I play the bad guy role, a terrorist or someone.

Lily James

I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it's a balancing game.

Lily Rabe

I had never done a 90-minute play with no intermission, so it is a bit like you get onto the train and you don't get off until it's over - and it's over very quickly, so don't miss a moment of it. That experience is very rare and specific so don't miss a minute, because there aren't very many minutes of it.

Lin Yutang

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

Lesley-Anne Down

We've all listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, haven't we? We all know how not to play a psychiatrist.

Les Paul

I don't know of a guitar player that has only one guitar. They're never happy with one. I'm never happy with just one of them. I woke up and ended up with six, even if you can only play one at a time!

Les Paul

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

Les Claypool

My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that.

Les Claypool

Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

Lennie James

I've written virtually as long as I've acted, it wasn't a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was 16 and I wrote my first play when I was 17.

Lennie James

If you're very clearly good or you're very clearly bad, then there isn't that much internal dilemma going on, and that's not necessarily as interesting to play.

Lenny Kravitz

If you go to Japan, they're still buying vinyl, and they want the education. They know who's playing on what tracks from the '60s and the '70s - who the guitar player is, who the drummer is, who the producer was, what studio it was recorded in. That's how I grew up listening to music. We bought albums. We read the liner notes. It was important to know the whole history behind it.

Lenny Kravitz

I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.

Lenny Kravitz

I don't play the tuba.

Lenny Kravitz

God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

Lenny Kravitz

I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

Lenny Kravitz

We've always just gotten up there and played. We don't have any dancers, we don't have all that stuff going on, we just get up there and play.

Lee Corso

I wouldn't want to play LSU right now even if I were the Indianapolis Colts.

Lee Hall

Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else.

Laurie Holden

I'd love to play a femme fatale. And I wouldn't mind working with George Clooney.

Laura Benanti

What's the worst, is when people clearly haven't researched you. One time an interviewer asked me if I do a lot of plays. I'm like, yeah. Have you Googled me? There's this thing called Google, and you can ask Google that question. Then you could come to me with informed questions that didn't make me feel like I am brand new to the world.

Lara St. John

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.