Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. H. Lawrence

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

Cristina Saralegui

Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.

Cullen Jenkins

In a perfect world, you can finish out your career where you start. ... It's one of those things you only have so much control over. You have to see how everything plays out and let the system work its course.

Conor Oberst

We [Desaparecidos] have to make the message and the music and the packaging as appealing as possible - as Taco Bell as possible: mediocre and no one can be offended by it and everyone can sort of enjoy it and we can play it on the radio.

Clint Dempsey

All you can do is play how you know how to play.

Clancy Brown

Can I, just one time, play the good guy?

Clarence Clemons

Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.

Danny Huston

I seem to play a lot of losers.

Danny Kaye

I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.

Danny Elfman

In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And there are other pieces which are really about - okay, the melody is going to start here and play through to here.

Daniel D. Palmer

Study first, play afterwards.

Daniel Dennett

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire has been ethically ambiguous. If you want to reason about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason responsive) defense of faith as an extra category of belief worthy of special consideration, I'm eager to play. I certainly grant the existence of the phenomenon of faith; what I want to see is a reasoned ground for taking faith seriously as a way of getting to the truth , and not, say, just as a way people comfort themselves and each other

Tim Duncan

What it's about for us is playing 48 minutes. Whether they got tired or not, I don't know. But we wanted to keep the pressure on them and keep pushing it back at them.

Michael Bruce

What I don't like is getting over and not having enough time to rehearse properly. Just because they know the songs it's not like playing the album.

I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.

John Tortorella

What we've been trying to do is be a tougher team to play against. I thought we played a good, solid road game.

Alexander Ovechkin

The NHL is the best in the world, it has the best players. I love the NHL.

Alexander Ovechkin

We're going to play our game and we're going to come back and we're going to play Montreal or Tampa,

Alexander McCall Smith

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; weve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.

Alexander Pope

And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

Alex Timbers

I like musicals that look more like plays.

Alex Van Halen

Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.

Alex Winter

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

Alex Trebek

I have an Apple computer, which I use to play Spider Solitaire and do research on the Internet.

Alex Lifeson

I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing.

Alex Kapranos

Why play a chord when you can play one note?

Alberta Hunter

The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.

Albert Pujols

I don't play for records.

Debby Ryan

I feel like music does have a role to play in waking people up; it can be an alarm clock or it can be a lullaby.

Debbie Ford

When you trust the universe, you get to play in the magical world of God's plan.

E. O. Wilson

To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.

E. O. Wilson

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

E. M. Forster

If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.