Play Quotes

Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.

To amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusem...

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something ha...

When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing th...

You always play it open, don’t you?” he asked.“I’ve never noticed you doing otherwise.”“I thought I ...

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

She wanted me to remember that pleasure is political--for the capacity to relax and play renews the ...

The heterosexual emotions of young children can find a natural, wholesome and innocent outlet with o...

How come we play war and not peace?""Too few role models.

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

In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-...

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they...

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the produ...

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to th...

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

This sort of information gathering is precisely what we call play. And the important function of pla...

After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an...

The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I f...

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing bree...

How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound togethe...

I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.

You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult r...

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that's th...

All drama is about lies. All drama is about something that’s hidden. A drama starts because a situat...

Play hard. Play, play, play like your life depends on it. Because it does.

Still, he was pleased to know that he could recall so much of the play and passed the rest of the jo...

He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.

The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry...

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

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

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the new...

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

Knowing it--knowing it's true is one thing, but believing what you know... well, there's the tough p...

I don't care about movies. I tend to play badminton once a week.

In childbirth grief begins.

Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.

Old loves are dropped when new ones come

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, ...

I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor an...

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

Pretending doesn't require expensive toys.

The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood:how shortsighted that is...

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how ...

When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards ...

I play a little guitar, write a few tunes, make a few movies, but none of that's really me. The real...

When you have the chance to play a Champions League final, you have to win it.

She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there.

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets a...

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the ta...

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the criti...

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.

It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a l...

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. ...

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it a...

The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

Aion is a child at play, playing draughts; the kingship is a child's.

Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow ...

He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot ...

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is complete...

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is complete...

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is complete...

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is complete...

As children get older, this incidental outdoor activity--say, while waiting to be called to eat--bec...

Did I tell you what happened at the play? We were at the back of the theatre, standing there in the ...

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never tr...

In order to understand the intensity of ritual forms, one must rid oneself of the idea that all happ...

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Play is the work of childhood.

I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge respon...

Ben Schwartzwalder was a decent guy, but he was from another era. He was like a Marine, with a real ...

If you want experiences to make you a better person, then you play two or three sports.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special func...

Our point of departure must be the conception of an almost childlike play-sense expressing itself in...

For us the chief point of interest is the place where the game is played. Generally it is a simple c...

For us the chief point of interest is the place where the game is played. Generatly it is a simple c...

Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledgefor mankind in polished speechesthat are no more than v...

It would be better to have no school at all than the schools we now have. Encouraged, instead of fri...

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.

I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched t...

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without f...

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing ...

A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.

Virat Kohli has so far shown that he has more ability and talent than anybody else, and if he can pl...

Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of...

I think it's great to dress up and play on all the girly features.

The relationship with the cast has everything to do with how a performance develops, and in a sense ...

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as toug...

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning an...

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street an...