Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kasey Keller

I don't know what some of our players thought. That they could just run around and do what they wanted to and these players were just going to roll over and let you do that?

I don't know what it was. I don't think we played very well for some reason. We had some injuries. But that's no excuse.

Niklas Kronwall

I couldn't have been more ready when I returned. But the only way to get back to playing shape is to play.

Nick Saban

Ideally, we would like to keep many of those players on our roster, but we are simply not able to do that.

I can just go out and play and relax, ... I'm not thinking; I'm playing more and reacting more.

I am happy. Now I have to get consistent. We played really well tonight, the whole team.

Ben Goldacre

You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.

Ben Folds

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.

Carl Sandburg

Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.

Carice van Houten

I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

Carey Mulligan

I wanted to be a musical theatre actress - I wanted to play Sally Bowles, forever and ever always.

Carey Mulligan

I was trying to find ways of not being pigeon-holed like that. I didn't want to be tied down by my accent. I wanted to play Americans. I don't want to ever be doing the same thing twice, and I just didn't want to repeat myself.

Carey Mulligan

I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The Seagull.

Carey Mulligan

It's actually easier to play a leading role than it is to play a supporting role.

Cameron Monaghan

I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.

Cam Gigandet

I was meant to play the bad guy, for always and ever.

Cam Gigandet

It's such a challenge to play a good guy - it's hard to be believable.

Cameron Sinclair

Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.

C. S. Lewis

Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

We've struggled offensively this year. It's been a season-long struggle. We've been playing just well enough to pull through.

Buster Keaton

I gotta do some sad scenes. Why, I never tried to make anybody cry in my life! And I go `round all the time dolled up in kippie clothes-wear everything but a corset...can`t stub my toe in this picture nor anything! Just imagine having to play-act all the time without ever getting hit with anything!

Burt Reynolds

If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or have a tracheotomy just before the nominations.

Carol Burnett

I always preferred working with somebody so I could look into their eyeballs and play tennis.

Carla Bley

I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.

Carla Bley

When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.

Alan Davies

I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.

Alan Cumming

I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

Alan Cumming

I was so scared of going back to the theatre after 'Hamlet.' I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.

Alan Cumming

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

Alan Cumming

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.

Alan Dershowitz

I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy.

Alain de Botton

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.