Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shaquille O'Neal

A lot of coaches play percentages when it comes to me, but that's just a way of saying that you can't stop me.

Shannon Sharpe

This was a no-brainer, ... When it came down to it, I said to myself, Hey, you can still play, you can still play at a high level and you still enjoy playing. Why not play?

Shannon Hoon

There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.

Seth

In a world of free, everyone can play.

Lewis Mumford

Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system by asserting our primacy as people in quiet acts of mental or physical withdrawal-in gestures of non-conformity, in abstentions, restrictions, inhibitions, which will liberate us from the domination of the pentagon of power.

Leslie Caron

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

Leonard Rose

Performers should realize they not only have to prepare themselves for concert purposes as far as memorizing their programs goes, but for the business of just walking out before the people …. It is important to play before an imaginary audience too. Before I play in public I very often play a program three or four times as though I were seated before a actual audience.

Len Elmore

I'm not nearly as much of a fan of the NBA as I was maybe 10 or 15 years ago, or certainly as I was when I was a player. It's become more entertainment focused, and less focused on the purity of the game.

Len Cariou

I was an actor for over a year before I ever saw a play.

Len Goodman

Your money is like your willy, it only grows if you play with it

Lemmy Kilmister

It is a well-known mystery that guitar players suddenly get better once they are dead. Buddy Holly was the first. Stevie Ray Vaughan is known by a lot more people than had ever heard of him when he was alive.

Lee Pace

With TV, you have so much to get done during the day that you don't really have a lot of time to feel your way through it. I know before I walk on the set exactly what I'm going to do. With film you can kind of find your way in it a little more, play with it some.

Lee Konitz

I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.

Lee Konitz

I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.

Lawrence Durrell

Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.

Larry David

Luck always plays a part for everyone, whether they want to admit it or not. I was very lucky, and I know it.

LaDainian Tomlinson

Rex brings out the macho talk and tells everyone this is what we're going to be and what we're going to do. And you see what happened. The players did it. It worked.

LaDainian Tomlinson

I am just a player trying to do what Im told.

Lady Gregory

The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.

Lady Gregory

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

Kyle Gallner

I play mostly bad guys on TV and mostly good guys in movies.

Neil LaBute

And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to.

Neil Postman

There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.

Neil Peart

I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.

Vanessa Redgrave

I was surprised when I was asked to play Miss Daisy and wondered if I could – only in part because she was Jewish but, also because she was a Southern woman who has hardly opened her mouth before she declares she's not prejudiced, and yet everything she does shows how totally prejudiced she is.

Vannevar Bush

Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown.

Vannevar Bush

Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something.

Vanessa Paradis

I liked to play dress-up.

Vanna Bonta

Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?

Vanna Bonta

My body is the fruit of spirits' play.

Val Kilmer

The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

Vaclav Havel

If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.

Vaclav Havel

I have found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable reason is that good taste is a visible manifestation of human sensibility toward the world, environment, people.