Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Bowie

When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.

David Elkind

Play is not only our creative drive; it's a fundamental mode of learning.

David Bentley

We feel unbeatable at Ewood Park - even when we play away

David Baldacci

I'm a wicked ping-pong player.

Deion Sanders

Tom Brady rises up to the occasion and plays well. That is just who he is.

Deion Sanders

Russell [Wilson] plays really well in the pocket [and] outside the pocket. He’s just a play waiting to happen.

Deion Sanders

Yes I would have been able to play for Bill Parcells.

Deion Sanders

Look good, play good. Play good, eat good. Eat good, die good.

Deion Sanders

If you look good, you feel good, If you feel good, you play good, If you play good, they pay good.

Deepak Chopra

Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn't come up to scratch. They never realize that they can see only what their paradigm tells them to look for. If you judge a person only by how well he plays pool, Mozart won't pass scrutiny, but the fault is in your lens.

Debbie Allen

Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

Debbie Reynolds

I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.

Debbi Fields

There is always competition. Whatever you do, there will be competition, and you have to decide how you’re going to play. For me, I had to be the very best. I had to be the very best. Because, if I was not the very best, I would end up being number two.

Dean Norris

When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.

Dean Norris

I play DEA, CIA, FBI, LAPD; I got 'em all.

Anna Pavlova

Play the last measure very softly.

Cindy Margolis

I know I play into that image out there, but I try to say it is a fantasy. I look at my own pictures and wish I could look like that. There are probably five people in this whole entire world who actually look like that.

Chuck Lorre

I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did.

Chuck Todd

It's hard not to get down on the government when you see dysfunction play out on our TVs every day. Frankly, sometimes at every level of government.

Alfre Woodard

I rather go to see a good play than be in one.

Alfie Kohn

Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.

Alexis Korner

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

Alexis Korner

In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.

Andrew Hill

It is good to be different, because difference is great; that's what this music is based on. But lose that energy between the audience and the players, and you have nothing.

Amy Schumer

I call myself a comic.But I started as an actress. I did plays since I was 5.

Amy Tan

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5

Anthony Braxton

I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.

Andy Van Slyke

I can only guess that, for guys in their 30s and 40s who watched me play, they understood that the score never mattered and my paycheck never mattered (in relation) to how I played. I played with Little League enthusiasm and professional flair. That's what fans are really looking for.

Andy Van Slyke

If everyone were like him (Mitch Williams) I wouldn't play. I'd find a safer way to make a living.

Andy Van Slyke

He (Ozzie Smith) plays like he's on a mini-trampoline or wearing helium kangaroo shorts.

Andy Summers

In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.

Andy Summers

I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.

Andy Summers

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.