Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Hamilton

There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.

Eddie George

I've established a company - The Edward George Wealth Management Group - which facilitates in helping players maintain their finances, and more importantly, maintain their lives during the duration of their careers and beyond.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

Holland Taylor

I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.

Holly Johnson

I think the main thing you have to remember when going into the post-season is to stay relaxed. All of the energy and excitement can be overwhelming but the thing I'll try to relay to the younger players is just stay calm and focused.

Jonathan King

My YouTube videos have literally millions of views... Yet I'm still airbrushed out of the BBC Stalinist revision of history; the chart shows have been instructed not to play my music!

Jonathan Davis

I feel like I'm waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play.

Jonathan Adler

There is no right answer except to play and experiment.

Jon Voight

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

Jon Stewart

You're your own play.

Kate Upton

Nikolaj [Coster-Waldau] plays one of the ugliest villains. We had to create such a horrible guy, because he is the bad guy in the [The Other Woman] movie. We took him as far pathologically as possible.

Katee Sackhoff

That's a terrifying prospect for myself, and I'm sure many other people, as well. We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player, constantly, to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by the idea of solitude. I'm excited about that.

Katey Sagal

When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.

Katey Sagal

Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

Katey Sagal

It's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.

Kate Beckinsale

I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I cant sing that great and I havent yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.

Justin Verlander

I think that a starting pitcher has to do something special to be as valuable or more so than a position player.

Justin Townes Earle

There’s a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play,

Justin Vernon

Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.

Julie Bishop

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

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.

Lara St. John

Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.

Larry Bird

If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it.