Famous Quotes & Sayings

George W. Bush

I'm not a textbook player. I'm a gut player.

George Thorogood

I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar.

George Shearing

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.

George Steinbrenner

David Cone is in a class by himself with three or four other players

George Steiner

Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'

George Soros

Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

George Soros

The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.

George Soros

These public-private partnerships are very, very dangerous. The most rotten part of the financial system in the US consisted of the government sponsored entities. They really kicked off this crisis. The state should set the rules and enforce them but not become involved as a market player.

George R. R. Martin

Better to mock the game than to play and lose.

Jean Cocteau

You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.

George Carlin

Most of the note-taking happens while I'm watching television. It's a broad window on the world, and a lot of things are already established in my mind as things I say, things that I'm interested in, things that are fodder for my [stand-up] machine. And when I see something that relates to one of them, I know it instantly and if it's a further exaggeration and a further addition, or an exception - if it plays into furthering my purpose, I jot it down.

George Carlin

I'll bet there aren't too many people hooked on crack who can play the bagpipes.

George Carlin

I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.

George Carlin

You get to play with people's little danger zones.

George Carlin

Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language.

George Carlin

Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards

Garth Brooks

Somebody that comes and dumps a brand-new album on me and doesn't play the old stuff, I'm pissed!

Garth Brooks

James Taylor and God are the reasons I play music.

Gail Godwin

Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.

Frank Sinatra

You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.

Frank Gehry

I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if I could play with it sculpturally.

Fernando Pessoa

Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.

Fernando Pessoa

I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.

Felix Sabates

All work and no play is not good for the soul

Felicity Kendal

It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

Felicity Jones

There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

Federico Fellini

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

Fanny Burney

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

Fabien Barthez

Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me.

Famke Janssen

I would rather not work than play in a movie that nobody watches.

Eve Myles

Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter.

Francesco Totti

There is only one player who is doing things that I could never do - and that is Messi.

Francine Pascal

The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!