Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wes Moore

The importance of education plays a huge role.

Wes Anderson

I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done it - not since I was in 5th grade, really. But I've had many plays in my films. I feel like maybe theater is a part of my movie work.

Rudolf Steiner

We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are human in the truest sense of the word.

Warren Farrell

A family that knows how to play together has the tools to stay together.

W. E. B. Du Bois

I have loved my work, I have loved people and my play, but always I have been uplifted by the thought that what I have done well will live long and justify my life, that what I have done ill or never finished can now be handed on to others for endless days to be finished, perhaps better than I could have done.

W. C. Fields

The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.

Virginia Woolf

Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.

Zosia Mamet

I have a ships bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

Zach Parise

If it happens that I score 50 goals, it'll be awesome. Any player in the league would like 50. But I don't keep thinking every day that I have to score in order to reach 50 goals .

Yukio Mishima

Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given period of time into pure continuance; it is certain never to be repeated; like the existence of dayflies and other such short-lived creatures, beauty is a perfect abstraction and creation of life itself. Nothing is so similar to life as music.

Zach Braff

You always see actors complaining about being typecast and ruining their career. Really, I don't see the point in complaining. If the only role you can play well is a black dude, you're never going to get ahead in this town, and you should just accept it.

Zakk Wylde

Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.

Zakk Wylde

Since day one my thing has always been to play the music

Zayn Malik

Life isn’t a music player where you choose whats being played, it is a radio where you have to enjoy whats being played.

Yuri Milner

Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.

Ziggy Marley

I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.

Ziggy Marley

I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.

Ziggy Marley

It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.

Zach Braff

When I played the Shins, I changed someone's life. When I play Belle and Sebastian in a pivotal scene in my next movie...well, let's just say I made sure I that I can't be held legally responsible for all the deaths people will suffer out of shock upon hearing them. They're a terrific band.

Zach Braff

If we're going to solve the problems in North Korea, the first thing we're going to have to do is start helping them get basic amenities like electricity, televisions, and DVD players over there. Otherwise, how can they watch 'Garden State'?

Yusef Komunyakaa

I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.

William Hague

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

William Hazlitt

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

William Hazlitt

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them

Wendell Pierce

The whole idea of jazz came about was the interpretation of the human dialogue, trading fours. When someone's soloing and someone picks up the solo and plays it back at 'em, it was the imitation of the human dialogue. It was how people spoke, through music.

Wendell Pierce

When you're doing comedy on stage, it's great because you have the audience there and they're like another actor in the scene. You feed off of them, laugh. But in film when everyone's quiet, it's all about timing. But the key to that is to be authentic. Be in the moment, and if you play the moment truthfully, the humor will be there.

Walter Pater

But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour, odour, texture... And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world... the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind.

Walter Raleigh

Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.

Vladimir Nabokov

Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!

Young Jeezy

Anybody that I ever dealt with knows that I'm a very focused individual, and when it comes to my work and what I do, you might have to play the back burner to that.

Yani Tseng

You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.

Xavi

The way I see it, Messi is the best player in history. He is the one who changes the course of games; he's the best. There is no comparison in my view; he's the world number one and by a margin.

Xavi

I would loved to have played with Scholes. He plays the game the way it should be played and at his peak he was the best midfield player in the world.