Play Quotes

Economics is not a morality play.

Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

No fool can play chess, and only fools do.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

I don't ever want something that I didn't do because I was afraid of it or I didn't think I'd be good at it - within reason. Obviously I'm never going to be able to play the trumpet.

I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.

You tie me up in knots. I want to play you a thousand different songs so you can get a clue of what... I feel inside me.

It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what 'Kind of Blue' did.

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

It's a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it's a privilege to have an audience. Respect that.

I learned how to play against players better than me.

In practice, I run every play like I'm scoring a touchdown.

When I find something good, I stick to it for like a month. I'm usually late on like other stuff. Kendrick Lamar, I can play that often.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

You've got to capture an audience. You don't go out there and just sing, or just play. If you can't capture an audience, you might as well not be out there.

Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

I left hating the game of football…I never ever wanted to play football after that and I kind of rode off into the sunset.

I don't need to play Beatport Top 10 to get the crowd going

The dumber you are on court, the better you're going to play.

I play out my role, I've even been out walking -They tell me that it helps, but I know when I'm beaten.

I draw and play the piano badly. But when I’m doing those things, I’m concentrating so hard there’s no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.

When you're playing against a team that has two great central defenders, the best option is to play without a striker.

It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.

I came up in a small town ghetto and I never did think I'd be a celebrity or famous athlete, I was just loving to play the game of basketball. And I worked hard at everything I did.

Most people play a fair game of golf - if you watch them.

As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.

I'm just trying to play my best and have fun.

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

If you create the stage setting and it is grand, everyone who enters will play their part.

Your self-image is as ephemeral as the play of light dancing on the surface of the water.

We should not play like Australia or India or England - we should play like Sri Lanka.

Kittens play with yarn, they bat it around. What they're really doing is saying, "I can't knit, get this away from me!"

Linebacker is a lot more detail oriented and you have to know a lot more than a defensive end necessarily would on any given play.

I don't get stage fright. I do get nervous before I play in front of big audiences [though].

I think there's good music out there. I just think that radio stations don't play it.

I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.

Neville will play Quidditch for England before Hagrid lets Dumbledore down.

"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf

Practice like it's a game; play the game like it's practice.

The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for research in biological warfare, and don't give their parents a moment's worry.

Let's play a game of whose life sucks worse ... I'll win, I always win.

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.

The drum is the heart of music. The saxophone can play and then rest, as can all of them except the drums; the drummer keeps going - he can't afford to stop.

Unless you plan to out-rebound and out-shoot everyone you play, then you better learn to handle the ball.

Play is basic to all normal and healthy children. It provides pleasure and learning and a minimum of risks and penalties for mistakes.

Sure, I'd play an ape if they asked me. Maurice Evans did.