Play Quotes

I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group.

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.

I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright most of my plays have two acts because i couldn't think of an idea for the third act.

Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.

That's the life really isn't it? You write. You record. You play. And it never grows old.

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.

Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.

Anyone watching '30 Rock' always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She's the boss; Liz Lemon just works here.

There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead

Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant role.

Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence.

When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.

For me, I've learned that the best thing is to focus on the team you play for and yourself and what you need to do.

Every day can't be the best day Do what you can right now, don't hesitate That's why we try to make love and get paid Take the bad with the good, now let's play

Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.

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

It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.

When God plays guitar he uses Jeff Beck's hands.

The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.

Pressure is what you make of it. It makes me play harder.

We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event . . . we'll play 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' before we sign off.

To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It isn't true, we don't care at all!

I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.

I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.

The importance of high expectations plays a big role.

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

Play is just another version of work

In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.

Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.

I'm sorry I didn't feel any better or play any better, but that's what happens at the end of careers.

Just play every hand, you can't miss them all.

I knew I wanted to play around with genre-esque imagery, and the identity theft stuff came in the middle, when I was figuring out how the characters were connected to those images.

Play within the system. Be a decision maker.

Just love what you are doing, and try to play more.

I know that, as captain, you are in a privileged position and must always abide by Fifa's code of fair play, something which I have always done throughout my career.

Don't go so deep in yourself that you no longer exist for your partner and for the character and for the play.

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.

Our goal is not to win. It's to play together and play hard. Then, winning takes care of itself.

When I stub my toe it's like I pressed a button that plays all the curse words I know.

I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him.