Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arturo Toscanini

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

Diana Taurasi

Every generation has their own great players. Who's to say that anyone's better than Cheryl Miller or Nancy Lieberman? Whose anyone to say Michael Jordan is better than Oscar Robertson or Magic Johnson or Larry Bird? Every generation has its great player. There's never going to be one player that's so above and beyond anyone else.

Diane Ackerman

I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.

Diane Ackerman

American writer 1803-1882 Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.

Derrick Rose

I feel like I have everything else as far as being creative and athletic. But it's the little things that's going to push me over, like ball-handling, passing, boxing out when I'm setting screens. Little things like that that you would overlook that can make me a complete player.

Derrick Rose

Why can't I be MVP of the league? Why can't I be the best player in the league?

Desiderius Erasmus

Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?

Demarcus Ware

When you put the pads on...it's time to make plays.

Demi Moore

Look, when people came after me for doing 'Indecent Proposal' or 'Disclosure,' I thought, 'Ridiculous.' These people are trying to limit me as an actor. Are they saying I can't play these roles? Well, I've proved I can.

Demetri Martin

I love Buster Keaton and I love physical comedy when it's done in an emotionally understated way. I just like to play it, and I need the attention.

Demetri Martin

When I stub my toe it's like I pressed a button that plays all the curse words I know.

Dean Koontz

You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.

Daniel Handler

There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.

Daniel Handler

It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn’t know...

Dan Uggla

All the stuff about who's hitting behind you and who's hitting in front of you-it plays a little bit of a part. But you can't just base your approach off that because you'll end up getting beat in the end.

Dan Stevens

I do listen to a lot of music. Actually, I very often ask directors if they can offer up a play list. They very often have one anyway that they're listening to.

Cobi Jones

This is something that's very special; people saying they watch me play who are now turning professional.

Cobi Jones

The people I still talk to are some of the old Galaxy players all over the place. That's a bond that's pretty special.

Cobie Smulders

I’ve read a lot of scripts and I’m really luck to be able to play a woman who’s funny and can be charming and has a mischievous side to her as well. I’m really lucky.

Claire Forlani

I'd be quite excited to play somebody British.

Clara Mamet

I wrote two plays before I was cast on The Neighbors. They actually got published, which was cool.

Elizabeth Jagger

I've been asked to pose for Playboy.

Eli Wallach

Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd always rush off to do a movie somewhere

Eli Manning

You know your goals and what you need to do to get better-just eliminate the bad plays.

Eli Manning

I've always been a player and a person who wanted to be the best at whatever he did.

Elia Kazan

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

Apolo Ohno

I've always wanted to play a role in inspiring people to be better, to live higher quality lives and to feel good about the way that they look and feel.

Antonio Banderas

Movies serve many purposes, and I've visited many of those genres, from the most light, frivolous comedy that is just trying to make you laugh, to movies that explore the most complicated side of the human soul. As an actor, I play all of those things, and I still like it.

Basil Rathbone

Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.

Bear Bryant

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

Barbara Corcoran

I've never had a really creative idea sitting at my desk. All the big ideas that made a difference happened when I was playing outside.

Avery Johnson

I thought I would make it (to the NBA). I believed that I would make it. But I had a Plan B. I was going to get my Master's degree at Tulane University had it not worked out. I think the pressure of making it wasn't on me as great as some other players that had no other options. I was going to do something special in life and I wanted to play in the NBA. I had a backup plan but I went full speed ahead with my Plan A.

Ashley Cole

I came to AS Roma to play in the Champions League