Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Capriati

She started playing better in the second set, playing like she had nothing to lose, ... I had to stay in there and stick it out.

She's so unselfish and such a team player that we have to remind her to look to score.

She understands that if she plays well, this team plays well. Defensively, she buckled down and the rest of them followed.

She thought I was playing on the phone.

Pat Summitt

She was tough. She's a freshman, but I thought she played more like a veteran tonight.

She's type of player that you wish the whole team could be like.

She's probably the most versatile player I've ever coached.

She's probably the most underrated player in the county. But she just makes all the right plays when we need them.

She's pretty good. She played the summer with us and she did pretty well.

She's just a very tough player. She'll probably be player of the year (in the WIAC). She's going to get her points.

She's been doing well and her spirits are up. We'll see how she reacts when playoffs begin.

Dick Van Dyke

I played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.

Dick Van Dyke

I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play.

Dennis Quaid

I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies.

Dennis Rodman

If Lebron was playing in the late 80's and early 90's, just an average player

Dennis Rodman

Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas. ... Why does he get so much publicity? Because he's white. You never hear about a black player being the greatest.

Dennis Haysbert

It's really quite an interesting dynamic. I wanted to play to the truth of who Manute was in the first film, while it's also a prequel and the originator [of the story]. It was an interesting dynamic to work with, definitely. I haven't seen the film yet, but the way it felt when I was doing it, it felt like it worked.

Denis Johnson

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

Denis Diderot

What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.

Deborah Tannen

When those closest to us respond to events differently than we do, when they seem to see the same scene as part of a different play, when they say things that we could not imagine saying in the same circumstances, the ground on which we stand seems to tremble and our footing is suddenly unsure.

Dee Dee Myers

When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.

Dikembe Mutombo

I remember when I came into the NBA, eighteen years ago, there were maybe nine to twelve international players playing in the NBA. Today we've got more than 85, so that tells you how our game has grown at that level.

Dikembe Mutombo

The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.

Dikembe Mutombo

As a matter of fact I've been asked to come when I'm free to play at the White House.

Edgar Allan Poe

There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.

Elbert Hubbard

An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love.

Elbert Hubbard

One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.

Elbert Hubbard

Play needs direction as well as work.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might be, if you could earn enough to keep body and soul together and had to be pretty busy doing that, you would not be very apt to have time to plot the overthrow of any existing government.

Edward Abbey

One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.

Edward Abbey

Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark? Or why the barons ganged up on Richard II?

Eddie Redmayne

I draw and play the piano badly. But when I’m doing those things, I’m concentrating so hard there’s no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.

Aristotle

Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.