Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sonny Rollins

I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with.

Sonny Rollins

I miss playing with Miles. I did play with him a little while before he left the planet, but even at that time I longed to maybe do some things together.

Sonny Rollins

But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn.

Steve Kazee

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.

Steve Kerr

I'm just thrilled for so many people. Our players, mostly, but the people in our organization - Rick Welts, Joe Lacob and Peter Guber and the whole group. It's just a phenomenal group of people. I think as a coach you just appreciate kind of the big picture a little bit more.

Steve Irwin

And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare...oh, it's just an oboe player.

Steve Jobs

When you're in a start-up, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. Each is 10 percent of the company. So why wouldn't you take as much time as necessary to find all the A players? If three were not so great, why would you want a company where 30 percent of your people are not so great? A small company depends on great people much more than a big company does.

Steve Jobs

A-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work

Steve Chabot

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

Steve Case

Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you.

Steve Coogan

When I play myself, I want to be a slightly better person. It just agrees. Everything I play about myself is kind of true, but it's amplified. We all edit, don't we? If you're self-aware, you stop yourself - you know how to behave properly.

Stephen Potter

In our small chess community in Marylebone it would be mock modesty on my part to deny that I have built up for myself a considerable name without ever actually having won a single game. Even the best players are sometimes beaten, and that is precisely what happens to me.

Stephen Rea

I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.

Stephen Sondheim

Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.

Stephen Sondheim

Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

St. Jerome

Playing keys is more than just knowing what notes to play. You have to know about the buttons too.

St. Jerome

It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.

Sri Aurobindo

The consciousness of the supreme Purusha remains above, but in the mind there may be a Purusha consciousness which they call the cosmic consciousness - it is wide, all-pervading, one. Outside this goes on the play of Prakriti.

Sri Aurobindo

The navel region is the centre of the vital. It is from here that the movements of the vital rise upward. Above the navel and behind the chest is the centre of the play of emotions and below this takes place the play of the physical. Mulādhāra is the base of the physical. In between the Mulādhāra and the navel, there is another centre of the vital.

Sri Aurobindo

The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself - for this is your true self.

Ruud Gullit

If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.

Ruud Gullit

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.

Ruud Gullit

Every week you have to play well to be the champion.

Ruud Gullit

I like stubborn players. At least they have an opinion. If they are right or wrong, this doesn't matter for me.

Ruud Gullit

To play Holland, you've got to play the Dutch

Rutger Hauer

I don't make the decision about what percentage of good guy or bad guy I play. For some reason, if I put my energy into the bad guy, that scares people. It's magic.

Ron Moody

Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.

Ron Jaworski

The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.

Roger Milla

You can be a top, top player for 10, 20 years, then you become a coach, lose two or three games and you're out.

Roger Maris

I feel that I was a good all-around player, I had good speed, a good arm and could play the outfield.

Roger Daltrey

You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.

Roger Clemens

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.

Sam Shepard

I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.