Play Quotes

You cannot play for safety and make art.

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

I like the idea of being a student, and I play with very good musicians. So playing with them allows me to get better. My aim is to get better, but I really love it for its own sake.

I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars.

Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.

It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.

I think by its very nature, it's redundant, you know, being the play-by-play guy on television.

Today's top players only want to play in London or for Manchester United. That's what happened when I tried to sign Alan Shearer and he went to Blackburn.

We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.

You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.

You can have fun, respect the game and also play it hard. When you have that combination, you're going to put yourself in a position to be successful.

I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.

I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it and I'm learning more and more everyday.

I want my team to play like a cornered tiger...when it's said it's most dangerous

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.

You're not going to win by automatically going out there. It's hard to know what people really expect of you, and I've never tried to live up to expectations anyway. That's no way to play baseball.

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.

I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always play strong-minded characters. I think it's maybe because I'm like that. I love being by myself.

I dont play any two suited cards. I play any two non-suited cards. That way I am drawing at two different flushes.

Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.

Play is the establishment and exploration of relationship.

For me, the most important thing is to continue to play well and to be a positive figure and hopefully a role model for kids as well.

Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.

Pay now, play later; play now, pay later.

Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?

If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.

We play because we love the game, we love each other, and we love to win.

When we play games, our brains respond differently to stress and obstacles. We're better able to control our attention and ignore distractions.

To play well you have to have good balance in your life. Tiger has found that. If you play golf long enough you'll learn that life is more than golf.

I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into it.

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

One thing's for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.

Hi, my name is Jaime and I play bass, and I have dumb hair.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.

Everything you do is different, and you find different chords in every character that you play that strike true with you.

Perspiration is the best form of differentiation, especially in the creative world.

It's better to go out like a man, trying, than to play it safe and get second.

I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.

Right now if you ask me Carmelo Anthony is GONE. He's going to L.A. to play w/Kobe Bryant.

A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.

Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.

I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better.

A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.

Mali is a very social society. We share everything. I think sharing our resources in music forces us to collaborate more, play with other people more, share ideas more.

Each match I play is the most important one yet.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.