Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Eugenides

Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the most craven of junkies, though after shooting up he would play the concert piano in the auditorium with astounding artistry, as though insulin were the elixir of genius.

Jeff Healey

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.

Jeff Lynne

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

Jim Evans

Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly.

Jim Abbott

Slowing it all down and analyzing our mental approach is a surprisingly effective way of becoming a better player.

Jim Abbott

I always wanted to be a shortstop so I could play more often!

Jennifer Jason Leigh

I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.

Jennifer Lawrence

I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play or a musical.

Jennifer Lawrence

There's always male roles I want to play. I'm so annoyed when I watch movies and go, "That could have been played by a woman."

Jennifer Lopez

Don't push your weaknesses, play with your strengths

Jeff Cunningham

College is a time in life where you get to know yourself as a player on the pitch and off the pitch. My coaches at USF were instrumental in making me understand the discipline it takes to succeed at the next level. Those were four special years for me.

Jeff Fahey

That is a gift to have four weeks to rehearse something. But remember, when you're doing a play half of that time you're getting to know the play and the other actors and then finally in the third week you have it pretty much on its feet. So it's all relative in different ways.

Jean Houston

We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.

Jamal Lewis

I also wanted to play with Peyton Manning because I thought he could teach me a lot, and he did.

James Agate

Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.

James Agate

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

Jacques Rogge

Please, compete in the spirit of fair play, mutual understanding and respect. And above all, please compete cleanly by refusing doping.

Jacqueline Bisset

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

Jacqueline Carey

For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day.

Jackson Browne

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

Jackson Browne

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.

Jackson Browne

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?

Jack Smith

would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate.

Jack Wagner

I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.

Jack W. Szostak

Years ago R.N.A. was kind of a bit player in the cell. Now our picture's completely inverted, and we think R.N.A.'s really the important thing.

Christopher Hampton

I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

Christopher Guest

Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.

George Harrison

I'll play what you want or I won't play at all.

George Harrison

Badfinger was pretty good. It was a very sad story, though, because the guy, he ended up killing himself, Pete Ham, who was a lovely fellow, he was a good guitar player and a great singer, he wrote, the most famous tune I would imagine is "Without You", you know the Harry Nilsson record.

Gaston Gaudio

My problem is not that I don't want to play, it's that I don't want to live!

Gary Vaynerchuk

I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

Gary Burton

It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.