Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cynthia Nixon

I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

Cory Lidle

On the days I'm pitching, it's almost a coin flip as to know if the guys behind me are going to be there to play 100%.

Count Basie

Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I've ever heard.

Count Basie

If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.

Clive Barnes

I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?

Clinton Portis

I can be a receiver, a cornerback, a safety and quarterback-I can play everything.

Clinton Portis

Everybody who I play always wants to use me, so I always tell them that I'm the only one who knows how to stop Portis, so go ahead.

Clinton Portis

I don't feel like I have to live up to anything because I've proven that I can play. Give me the ball and let's go.

Clive James

A luxury liner is really just a bad play surrounded by water.

Clive James

A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.

Clint Eastwood

There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

Darby Stanchfield

From a personal standpoint, playing someone judged negatively by her friends is not difficult.

E. B. White

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

E. B. White

Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.

Dustin Pedroia

I hope to play for the Red Sox a long time.

Dustin Pedroia

I put the blinders on and just work as hard as I can, and hopefully I'll just continue to be a better player.

Dusty Baker

Managers are never 100 percent in control. You're at the mercy of the players. When you're a player, you're driving. I'm the navigator. I hardly ever think about driving anymore, unless there's two out in the bottom of the ninth.

Duncan Sheik

If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record

Dustin Hoffman

Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why

Drew Gooden

When I was young, I kept trying to be in the most helpful place for me, when sometimes, as players, you have to look in the mirror and say, "It's not always going to be comfortable."

Drew Houston

Software touches all of these different things you use, and tech companies are revolutionizing all different areas of the world...from how we shop to how farming works, all these things that aren't technical are being turned upside down by software. So being able to play in that universe really makes a difference.

Douglas Hofstadter

The paraphrase of Gödel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause its indirect self-destruction.

Donald Trump

When you have momentum going, play the momentum

Dan Castellaneta

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

Dan Buettner

So learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.

David Mamet

Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.

David Fincher

I want stuff to play as wide as possible. I want to be able to see... if I could play the whole thing in a master and it could be compelling enough, that'd be great. Then it simplifies my day, it simplifies life for the actors when you could just focus on that. But by the same token I don't want to be forced into coverage. So I want it to be as good from every angle and I need to get as many of the kind of shadings that I want from every angle.

David Ayer

It's important for me to take very famous, well-known people and not have them play themselves and not have them be seen as themselves.

Dashiell Hammett

The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.

Dave Brubeck

You could play probably a span of 50 years of me playing St. Louis Blues, and most of the time it will be different every time.

Dave Brubeck

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

Dave Brubeck

When I was first aware that I couldn't read music I didn't know I couldn't read because I could play the music that was in front of me.

Dave Brubeck

My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.