Play Quotes

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

I love the music, I love the times, so to me that was exciting personally just to play something that starts in 1986 with graduating high school, we've got a great soundtrack in the pilot.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play.

I was seen dancing at school by a director, who asked me to be in a TV play. And it had a huge impact. So I think that's what really started me off.

I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked.

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear.

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.

If you play in the NFL and start for 10 years, it's not good. It is not good.

If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

The stars handle it very graciously. They let you know. They know how to play the game.

What I'd like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact.

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.

If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands.

Coming back in that AFC Championship Game against the Steelers, that was a poignant moment for me for a lot of reasons - the magnitude of the game and having not been able to play for quite a while and to be able to get on the field for that game. That one stands out.

The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.

It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.

When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.

As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member.

Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.