Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Player

The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.

Gary Payton

It is much easier to be the hunter than the hunted. When you are the one not expected to do anything, you play better.

Gary Numan

I want them to play Britney Spears at my funeral. This way I won't feel so bad about being dead, and everyone there will know there is something worse than Death.

Gary Oldman

You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.

Gary Oldman

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

Gabe Newell

A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'

Gabe Newell

If you look at a multi-player game, it's the people who are playing the game who are often more valuable than all of the animations and models and game logic that's associated with it.

Franz Schubert

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

Franz Liszt

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.

Frank Capra

Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone; it bosses the enzymes; directs the pineal gland; plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to film is more film.

Frank Iero

It's always awkward to pretend to play. I feel like Ashlee Simpson. Oooh, zing.

Frank Iero

If I couldn’t play, I wouldn’t be alive.

Frank Robinson

I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.

Frank Robinson

I had no trouble communicating, the player's just didn't like what I had to say.

Frank Rijkaard

I can't fault my players. We created a lot of chances but we missed out on a victory because of the woodwork and goalkeeper Bonano, who did very well.

Frank Rich

The truth is that a lot of plays aren't political at all. In American theater history, political theater has tended to crop up when there's a crisis, a national crisis.

George Herbert

If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuf, which would endure a shake. Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest; A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best.

Chris Hardwick

If you have laser-like brain it's not always focused on the most productive things. If you want to play Halo: Reach all day, that's fine, but if you want to accomplish some other things, here are some ways to do that using your innate nerd gifts.

Christopher Atkins

All of a sudden your whole life becomes a public issue. Money, wealth, people, prestige - all of that suddenly comes into play.

Christine Lavin

I was in a play with Julia Roberts and Paul Newman and Tony Randall.

Christian Serratos

I'd love to play someone who's insane or something, just so I can go flake out. I like a superhero. I know that's ironic. That's where we are, but seriously, it'd be really cool to play a superhero.

Christie Hefner

Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.

Chrisette Michele

A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.

Chrissie Hynde

I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

Christian Bale

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

Chris Lowe

I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.

Chris Isaak

I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good.

Chris Isaak

The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's hard for them to figure out how to play what they like when there's somebody up above them yelling 'you have to play this.

Fabrice Muamba

Not just me but every professional footballer will tell you they miss playing the game, I miss the game especially as I retired early, not because I was a bad player but I retired solely for health reasons.

Fabio Capello

When I was a player, I'd have a pre-match meal of the biggest lump of fillet steak you could find, followed by rice pudding. Other times I'd have a steak and kidney pie. I'd finish the meal at 12.30 and be playing two-and-a-half hours later.

Fabio Capello

If you're speaking of a fantasy player, then it has to be Leo Messi as he's so unpredictable. He's an absolute genius.

Fabio Capello

In my entire life I have never seen a player of such quality and personality at such a young age, particularly wearing the 'heavy' shirt of one of the world's great clubs.

George W. Bush

My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt.