Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dallas Willard

A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of

Cybill Shepherd

I'll always push the envelope. To me, the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe.

Cyndi Lauper

Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time...

David Cheriton

I am a believer in Adam Smith, who says that if you look at something that really contributes value to society, and you can deliver it at a reasonable price, then society will recognise that at some point because rational behaviour will come into play.

David Cassidy

I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.

David Byrne

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

Darin Strauss

A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS guys unfolding equipment, tubes and wheels.

Darrell Hammond

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.

Dave Evans

Always play to the cheap seats. That's where the critics sit. The people who sit up front don't come to hear you play; they come to sit up front.

David Lindsay-Abaire

My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.

David Lee Roth

Let's play with the career, if we can't find anything else to do

David Levithan

One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.

David Letterman

The new 'Mad Max' movie takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. I have a small part in 'Mad Max.' I play the old geezer who remembers what steak tasted like.

Doc Severinsen

I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.

Doc Rivers

(Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.

Doc Rivers

If you're a great defensive player, you're a great defensive player 100% of the time. You can't be a great defensive player half of the time because you didn't get the ball once or twice. That can't sidetrack you. It's got to be 'I live for my defense, and my offense I'll get. But I can't let it affect my defense. Nothing affects my defense.'

Desmond Tutu

Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will point to him or her and that person will play "ting." That might seem so insignificant, but in the conception of the composer something irreplaceable would be lost to the total beauty of the symphony if that "ting" did not happen.

Derrek Lee

If they watch me play, people will say I'm not into it or whatever. That's okay. I kind of like it. People don't know how much work I'm putting into it. They don't need to know.

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.

Amber Valletta

Can't we all just play nicely and leave the playground the way we found it, clean and safe?

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.