Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Collins

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

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?

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.

Usain Bolt

Cristiano is better than Messi, without a doubt. He's more of an all-round player

Suzan-Lori Parks

My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, theres a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.

Suzan-Lori Parks

The first time I went over to [my director's] house, he said to me, This is a very strange play. I was pleased that he reminded me of that. [He] understands the play [VENUS] intellectually and emotionally and the humor, the funny bone.

Sushma Swaraj

I don't know whether our watching the play in these times was a coincidence or divine intervention but time and again, we were introspecting.

Taryn Manning

I never wanted to stop. I feel like to the day I die I'll play guitar and sing.

Tariq Ramadan

Those organisations, al-Qaeda being the first one, have all settled in areas full of mining and oil resources or in geostrategic zones. They settled in Afghanistan which underground is filled with oil and lithium. North Mali is filled with mining resources (uranium). It is essential to question the impact and role of some international players that create or let those organisations settle there.

Taylor Swift

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

Steven Moffat

My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible.

Steven Pinker

Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare and so on.

Steven Pinker

Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.

Susan Lucci

Erica Kane was a spectacular role for any actress to play, and I felt so lucky to be the one who got to do it.

Sun Ra

All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.

Sun Ra

The music is not part of this planet in a sense that the spirit of it is about happiness. Most musicians play earth things about what they know, but I found out that they are mostly unhappy and frustrated, and that creeps over into their music.

Sue Kelly

As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet.

Sue Wicks

It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent.

Sue Wicks

For me, the money isn't a big issue. I'm at the end of my career and I'm just happy to play.

Sue Grafton

Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.

Stuart Pearce

I want them to be fully committed to the work place and fully committed to the people they work for. (on Manchester City players)

Stuart Pearce

I have made it totally clear to the players that my door will always be open.

Stuart Pearce

I am nothing without the players.

Steven Van Zandt

I'm not pretending to be an academic, or to have this down to a science. It's strictly my taste. But there is a connection between everything I play and the sets I put together.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Lots of times I'll play lead and rhythm together.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

I play as many different things - piano, sax and harp parts - as I can at once. Whatever I can fit, whenever I need to.