Play Quotes - Page 315

But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.

Serious art is born from serious play.

John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.

The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus.

I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.

My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.

When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.

I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not asked if he wanted to play

As a soccer player, the goal isn't to be very bulky. It is more important to even your body out. Make sure your body is well rounded. You can't really focus on one area. Everything has to be balanced.

It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, empathetic musicians, who are great individually but who also have a great sense for cooperation and collaboration, great listeners as well as great players.

Playful arising is authorized by both risk and trust in the process and in oneself. To be truly playful and improvisational one must not look for results.

Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you're blown away by a particular musician. If I'm playing the Brahms concerto, it's crucial to have a great oboe player, because we work in tandem.

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.

Most of the players in the league use marijuana, and I have and do partake in smoking weed in the offseason sometimes.

My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.

Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.

Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.

The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish.

I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.

Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again.

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

I put the ball in play. That's what I want.

I know the questions will be around the money, the amount Chelsea had to spend to bring him here but that's the reality of modern football. Big teams only want big players, big players are in big clubs, big clubs want to keep their big players.

Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you.

Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use.