Quotation Explorer - 'Play'

The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor. - Michael Patrick King
When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you’ll be blameless. - Seth Godin
If you play with dirt, no matter if you win or lose, either way you will get dirty. - Debasish Mridha
At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. - Thomas Tusser
Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Emotions are like muscles. Most of them go highly unattended, it's usually the weaker, undefined ones that cause injury to the rest, and there is most certainly memory response in play. - Erica Goros
Work and play is the same thing just with a different perspective. - Debasish Mridha
Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation. - Calvin Coolidge
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can."[Keynote Address, University of the Arts, 134th Commencement (Philadelphia, PA, May 17, 2012)] - Neil Gaiman
History plays for keeps; individuals play for time. - Gregory Maguire
And when you play this song, hold your head high, motherfucker, don't ever look down, be comfortable with who you are, our flaws are what makes us perfect - Machine Gun Kelly
In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.
Children play from the library of their imagination and it feels real to them. - S. E. Entsua-Mensah
Play the game of life as if you have nothing to lose, no attachment. - Jay Woodman
Inspiration is an inner string which must be tuned often in order to play it. - Debasish Mridha
To her you're just a play thing; she'll make you out to be a king, then she'll set fire to your throne. - Phar West Nagle
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. - Sir Arthur Eddington
One doesn't play music; one surrenders to it. - Marty Rubin
To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart. - Marianne Williamson
Play More, Pray More; Get More, Give More…Live More! - RVM
Talk is cheap. Let's go play.
I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations. - Joss Whedon
I play the fiddle....I'm not much to listen to yet, but we got no mice in our house. - Annie Proulx
Chess, I never thought that I will beat somebody on chess. I just thought that I'm too stupid to play chess, but it looks like the best in the class of math I beat him. He has in math as a result 5, I have 3 - Strange? I don't think so! - Deyth Banger
If u want to work in Corporate, then u should know how to play Chess. - honeya
Competition and rivalry between the members of a group are the antithesis of the cooperation and team play needed in an effective management group. This is why team building is an empty abstraction for a group whose leader controls with power. - Thomas Gordon
All creative work begins as play. The more one plays, the better one works. - Marty Rubin
This wasn't a legalistic play. He simply wanted more and more of God. - Matt Chandler
The police.....always wanting to play games.
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play, and to look up at the stars and sun. - Henry Van Dyke
I wait, you play. You speak, I cave. I promise, you break. You game me, daily, you play me. - Coco J. Ginger
Normalization takes place not because there is Western-ideology that normalizes third-world texts in any special way (other than the usual play with exoticism) but because this academic seeks to domesticate everything, even Marx. - Aijaz Ahmad
Someone needs to buy a radio station, then play nothing but audio books, with a different genre of book played at set times. That way we can always have something new to read, no matter where we are. - Shana Chartier
Why are we surprised when politicians play politics? It's not like they are supposed to be real adults... they are, after all, politicians and don't have real jobs and aren't playing around with their money.
I admit it's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, or the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit, but maybe the best any of us can do is not quit. Play the hand we've been given and accessorize the outfit we've got. - Allan Heinberg
I write because I love to play with language. - WH Auden
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play - John Cleese
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. - Theodore Roosevelt
On life's stage for your real life play, always choose the best, most excellent actors for top success. - Mark F. LaMoure
Without the right succession planning put to play in human resources, we build for the future without a future - Mmanti Umoh
I think sometimes, despite our good intentions and wise choices, something's are up to fate and we learn to play our part the best we can. - Nikki Rowe
If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out. - Mark Zuckerberg
Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it. - Sai Baba
The art and craft of early childhood teaching is in making decisions about fun, play and work. And it is this crafting that distinguishes the professional from the baby-sitter, parent or child minder. - Susan Grieshaber and Felicity McArdle
When we all play our part the world will run as designed. Do your part and do it now! - TemitOpe Ibrahim
Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can play weird-- that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple complicated is commonplace--making the complicated simple, awesomely simple--that's creativity. - Charles Mingus
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cars in order to win the game. - Voltaire
Millionaires don't play the blame game but the gain game. - Dee Dee Artner
Not only does God play dice with the Universe - he sometimes casts them where they can't be seen. - Stephen Hawking
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow. - Evan Esar
If we are exhorted to play simple melodies with beauty rather than difficult ones with error, the same should be applied to writing; simple words greater effect. - Sonia Rumzi
A mistress has NO RIGHT to speak out or play the victim and pity party. NONE !! - Efrat Cybulkiewicz
When you're tired, sleep. Don't watch stupid tv or play games on your phone. Sleep, and then get up early, and do the stuff you hope you'll be known for after you die. - Maggie Stiefvater
The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it. - Alexander Woollcott
If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! - William Shakespeare
You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty. - Kelly White
You don’t choose the music your enemies play, but you choose which songs you dance to. - Matshona Dhliwayo
As children play games with imaginary things, initially a seeker indulges in little things. So simple people believe in simple things. - Fakeer Ishavardas
Dont' play for safety- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action. - Ambrose Bierce
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. - Heraclitus
Play More, Pray More; Get More, Give More…Live More! - - RVM
Kindness went out to play all on a summer's day. With her about many smiles came out and joined in sweet array. - Sara Loo
While games are fun to play, children should grow up not just being the consumers of technology but also the creators of technology. - Newton Lee
Human existence is partnered with spiritual laws; it’s the foundation of the human experienceWe all ultimately want a pain free existence, unfortunately circumstances of unrest bring to light the spiritual laws designed to play themselves out in the everyday experiences of the human race. - Brian Edward Arsenault
The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure. - George Bernard Shaw
We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on. - John Keats
I have never seen anyone bothering to play at putting heavy women’s makeup on a pit-bull, now, looking at this specimen of womanhood, I could surely understand why - Gary Edward Gedall
If you play "I Don't Want To Know" by Fleetwood Mac loud enough -- you can hear Lindsey Buckingham's fingers sliding down the strings of his acoustic guitar. ...And we were convinced that this was the definitive illustration of what we both loved about music; we loved hearing the INSIDE of a song. - Chuck Klosterman
I want a relationship where we talk like best friends, play like kids, argue like husband and wife, and protect each other like siblings. - Anonymous
Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible. - Dorothy Draper
People say we are playing God. My answer is: If we don't play God, who will? - James D. Watson
That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way. - Syd Barrett
History is a pack of lies we play on the dead. - Voltaire
Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled...in a unique and inimitable way. - Vladimir Nabokov
To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable. - Ludwig van Beethoven
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. - Richard M. Nixon
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace. - John Mason Brown
The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended. - Hugh Macleod
Every body has role to play in the history of the world. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it's surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you. - Wil Wheaton
Let us play hide and seek in a mountain which is like a women's back. - Santosh Kalwar
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. - Carl Jung
At last started to play and she gestured to dance with me. As we slow danced I couldn’t tell what day or year it was. For all I know, Etta could have been singing it live. We danced like lovers do and as the song neared it’s melodic end, she whispered in my ear—I just got lost with you. - Kayko Tamaki
You must be willing to play with Failure before you reach Success.- - RVM
love for 2015 it's just a game who play every one smoothly and enjoy - raj giri
He who cannot swim should neither chase the dolphins nor play with sharks. For him disaster awaits like sunrise. - J. Loren Norris
Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again too. Who decides?
Life is a game and there is full of cheat .. if you don't the cheap book you will play for the rest of your life but you will never get certain score to compete with high scorers. so find the cheap book to succeed in life . - Parker Bernard
When I am not paying attention to my children, they appear to desperately need it. When I am giving them my full attention, they seem just as happy to play by themselves. It is as though they need to be certain of my attention in order to play their own games and ignore me. - Sarah Ruhl
If you go to anybody and ask them, what is your dream life? They would say I want to sit by the TV all day. I want to play with my friends all day and they think that is the best way to spend their lives. They do not know that what they have just listed is not living life but wasting life. - Sunday Adelaja
Some part of me knew that I could play this part well, or better than well. But I was almost afraid to play it. The line between stage and life was so fragile here that I felt a risk of losing myself somehow. - J.B. Cheaney
Play is the creation of value that is not necessary. - Dallas Willard
They say golf is not a contact sport. Not the way we play it.
Never ever play with the feelings of others. If you think you have played with the feelings of another and have won, you better think again you might of won the game but you surely may have lost that person forever. - Angie karan
You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
In music, push yourself but not too hard; if you play too many sharps you may cut your fingers. - Sneha Abraham
At the age of my play this country gave me a stone on my head. - Tanmaya Guru
Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?' - Terry Pratchett
Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world. - George Soros
Play to your strength; then you are always strong. - Silvia Hartmann
want people to rock out in the car and not care that people are watching, I love that feeling when the sequences are all perfect and you can just press play. I want the music to take you on a journey. - Blake Lewis
Don't play any game if you don't understand the rules no matter how nice winners trophy looks like - Sonja Smolec
I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital. - Demetri Martin
Einstein said God doesn't play dice with the universe, but I don't know--maybe not as a whole, but I think he gets a pretty big kick out of messing in peoples' back yards. - Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde
If you ever want to see heaven, watch a bunch of young girls play. They are all sweat and skinned knees. Energy and open faces. - Amy Poehler
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes. - Mae West
If you're feeling discouraged and defeated—don't quit. Play on, hope on, and move forward. The music you play—even in the midst of incredible darkness—can and will turn the tide of your own battles. - Seth Adam Smith
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play and to look up at the stars. - Henry Van Dyke
Learn well and play well. - Lailah Gifty Akita
If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar.. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Life is a Game you play only once you don't get the second chance and if you get you will never come in the same identity. So perform well. - Sandeep Kakkar
When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. - Bob Hope
It was once stated that God didn't play with dice, but then I discovered that most of the Gods did play with dice. However, they didn't see Destiny playing chess the entire time behind them. They never stood a chance, seeing that Destiny was on both sides of the board. - Lionel Suggs
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will. - Jawaharlal Nehru
Sex is the most important sort of adult play. If you can't relax here you never will - Alex Comfort
You are perfectly cast in your life. I can't imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play. - Lin-Manuel Miranda
Learning to read music in Braille & play by ear helped me develop a [very] good memory. - Ray Charles
Don't be reckless. Don't play it safe. - Walter E. Jacobson, M.D.
If you keep wanting to get back in the nest, you're missing the amazing experience of coming out to play at life for a while. - Jay Woodman
To share is precious, pure and fair.Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there? - Marvin Gaye
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. - Jimi Hendrix
I root through your remains,looking for the black box. Nothing leftbut glossy chunks, a pimp’s platinumtooth clanking inside the urn. I play youover and over, my beloved conspiracy,my personal Zapruder film - Erin Belieu
The reason I dont play ballads? Because I love to play them. - Miles Davis
This life is like a game, so you better play it right! - Jonathan Anthony Burkett
A lamp cannot play the role of the Sun and the Sun cannot play the role of a lamp. - Amit Kalantri
If you are a kind person and love animals, you may be lucky enough to find the Magic Valley. There you will discover a land where snow leopards play and mountains smile. I should tell you, though, that it will be a very hard journey. But I should also tell you that it is well worth the effort. - Helen Freeman
The notion of children being "kindergarten ready" is a bizarre oxymoron. It's like saying you have to know how to play the piano before you can learn how to play the piano. - Peter Campbell
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. - Stanley Kubrick
Play is the highest form of research. - Albert Einstein
We would go out and play these songs and people could interpret them however the hell they wanted. - Carrie Brownstein
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge. - Stephen Nachmanovitch
Do you wanna play? Everyone's dead, so I got bored. Did you come to play with me?--Wrath - Hiromu Arakawa
Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition. - Arthur Lydiard
I play with the fire of my own truth," she told me, "I will burn for the things I love. - Mia Hollow
Play and productivity are no longer two separate worlds that rarely meet. They can come together like happy fistfuls of Play-Doh, beautifully blending to reveal the brand-new colors of a meaningful life. You get to play AND do. Play matters. Your life matters. It's time to manifest. - Marney K. Makridakis
Your life is not a simulation; it's the real game. Play wisely. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Live Loud, Love Loud, Laugh Loud, Play Loud, Cry Loud Isn’t that what life’s about! - Samuel Nazer Walsh
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form. - Stephen Nachmanovitch
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. - Warren Beatty
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. - Kahlil Gibran
Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance. - Michael Bassey Johnson
I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window. - Alice Munro
I'm not a lawyer, but I play one in my novel COPYRIGHT. I also play a serial rapist, a drug addict, a teenage boy and lesbian model. - Lori Lesko
We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play. - Muhammad Ali Jinnah
What we play is life. - Louis Armstrong
Practice hard,Train hard,work hard and Play harder. - Alcurtis Turner
Play to win but never fear to lose. Win or lose-either way you are a winner. - Debasish Mridha
I would love you all the day, every night we would kiss and play, if with me you'd fondly stray, over the hills and far away. - John Gray
Business is like a game and you play the game only in two ways. Either you play to Win or Play not to Lose - Qasid Parkar
One play down and 497 to Go! - Ray S. Jones
I will not play it safe!I want to experience the length, depth, and breadth of life. I'm not just here for the victories... I'm here for the scars. - Steve Maraboli
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players. - Doc Searls
My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince and a soldier. - Orlando Bloom
What I'm trying to do is make impressions. I think of myself as a colourist, adding different colours and shades by using different techniques and touching the guitar in different ways. I'd like to play sounds you can see if you've got your eyes closed. - Lenny Breau
Do you remember when we learned how to fly? We'd play make-believe, we were young and had time on our side - Paradise Fears
I don't usually play games. I got added to one and was played.When I realize the creator I will be the coach, now that I've mastered the game. - Rohan B Rebello
If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. - William Shakespeare
If I remove your eyes or make you in such way that to don't see... in reality you don't see the evil... you don't see me... so do whatever I don't give a fuck... that's wonderful... I like to play games... so run!... and welcome home!? - Deyth Banger
Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time. - Meryl Streep
It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts. - Patricia Briggs
They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines.""Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.""We need more special effects and dance numbers. - Bill Watterson
Work hard to play harder. - Linda Rawson
A man limits his abilities himself according to his created interest, and then he pays very little attention to unliked things. Understand that man can become whatever he wants to be, just Interest and Want play the role. - Faisal Nawaz Maitlo
Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.
With foxes we must play the fox. - Dr. Thomas Fuller
Play always as if in the presence of a master. - Robert Schumann
Always take some of the play, fun, freedom and wonder of the weekend into your week & your work - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Everything is perfect. Everything is fine. The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind.Of course there may be courtesies And closures and laws to abide,But the zeal with which you play Relies on where YOU draw the line - Jason Mraz
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle. - Mitch Hedberg
Life is like a game - we should be curious to play it - you explore and learn and grow - that is what it is for - that and having fun. It all expands consciousness- your own, the collective, and the cosmic. - Jay Woodman
Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought. - Albert Einstein
It is pleasant at times to play the madman. - Seneca
And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. - William Shakespeare
Okay, so he wasn't dreaming anymore, but did this fall into same song second verse? He would just have to play this out and see what happened. - Kindle Alexander
With acting, you gotta wait until someone gives you a role in a play or movie. With writing, you're not dependent on others, you don't have to wait. You can sit down and just create. - Donal Logue
I do not know how it all started, but I would certainly play my part in how it all ends. - Mamur Mustapha
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself. - Robert Henri
Eat till you're full. Play anytime you want. Sleep as much as you like. Cry. Get angry. Laugh. Live. Live. Live. - Kazuya Minekura
I'm collector of stuff that people make with their brain. I keep them in little jars and I take them out and play with them sometimes too. The stuff, not the people. - Frances Winkler
It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong. - Miles Davis
Oh but it is Mr Bernstein, it is the ultimate game. And, once you take this folder you will have precisely 14 days in which to decide whether or not you would like to play. - Adrian Dawson
Never had she let herself go in this way with another body, and never had another body let itself go with her in this way. Her lover could play with her belly, but he had never lived in there; he could touch her breast, but he never drunk from it. - Milan Kundera
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference. - Jane Goodall
The genius of play is that, in playing, we create imaginative new cognitive combinations. And in creating those novel combinations, we find what works.
It’s not enough to hear someone else’s voice or to sing someone else’s song or to play the note that you heard someone else play. I had to tune into my sound and by doing so, I have recovered not only the sound of my voice but the sound of my life. - Suzette Hinton
Too many people die in our world today because, they don’t eat well, rest well, play well and live well. - Sunday Adelaja
Don't play with others, or at one day, you will be played by others. - Usama Ejaz
Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves. - Kelly Link
In order to be really good as a librarian, everything counts towards your work, every play you go see, every concert you hear, every trip you take, everything you read, everything you know. I don’t know of another occupation like that. The more you know, the better you’re going to be. - Allen Smith
At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice. - Albert Einstein
Each player must accept the cards life deals him. But once they are in hand, he alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. - Voltaire
I am unique...I play by a different set of rules; I am not intimidated by anything. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
[...]make sure you raise your children by having them play in their studies, and don't use force. - Plato
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part. - Voltaire
When you play with a gentleman, you play like a gentleman. But when you play with bastards, make sure you play like a bigger bastard. Otherwise, you will lose. - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
I play chicken with the train - Cowboy Troy
The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression. - Brian Sutton-Smith
Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design. - Oprah Winfrey
Play by the rules, but be ferocious. - Phil Knight
When you play, never mind who listens to you. - Robert Schumann
Life is an intricate play with actors waiting for an explanation. Each added act confers a new interpretation of the story. ( "Waiting for the pieces to fall into place" ) - Erik Pevernagie
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. - Arnold Toynbee
Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk. - Joan Erickson
Novelists and the literary world play an important part in shaping languages. The Swahili they write influence the readers and their languages. The literary obstacle in Tanzania is not that people do not read, but that they don’t read because there are no interesting writers. - Enock Maregesi
Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from times long gone. - Carl Sagan
No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Play More, Pray More; Get More, Give More... Live More!!!-RVM - R.v.m.
Nothing is more important than creative play through imagination. Never stop playing, and never stop imagining! - Carmela Dutra
A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly. - Friedrich Nietzsche
I was captured by music at a really early age. I was really captured by it. Everything about it. It was my mother… It was my father… It was my play thing. It was my toy. It was the best thing in my life. - Jeff Buckley
I want my list of works to be lean and mean and everything was urgent and had to be done. Nothing to play the market. My family’s had to suffer for that, that I haven’t done commercial jobs just to bring home the bacon. - Josh Alan Friedman
With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
If you wanna fly high with me you have to play blind on me !! - Wasim Malik
Practice makes perfect, but it doesn’t make new. The gifted learn to play magnificent Mozart melodies and beautiful Beethoven symphonies, but never compose their own original scores. - Adam Grant
It's my job to play this role that I'm cast in to the very best of my ability, the same as any other actor. You can't possibly be yourself in the public eye. All the little things that make us human don't stand up under the scrutiny of the camera. [on being a public figure] - Adrian Lamo
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. - Nelson Algren
Home is not where you have to go but where you want to go; nor is it a place where you are sullenly admitted, but rather where you are welcomed by the people, the walls, the tiles on the floor, the followers beside the door, the play of life, the very grass. - Scott Russell Sanders
Do not let the roles you play in life make you forget that you are human. - Roy T. Bennett
who ever play with play will cry with play - Bello Salihu
Sometimes life may look complicated than it is, but you'll have to play it just the way it is and make it proper, the way you would wish it to be in your own words. - Auliq Ice
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them. - Abraham Flexner
You learn a lot about people when you play games with them. - Laura Moncur
Prakruti [the relative self, innate nature] has opinions and may store them but we should stay in an opinion-free state. ‘We’ are separate and the relative self is separate from us. ‘We’ should play our part as a separate entity. We shouldn’t get involved with those problems. - Dada Bhagwan
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. - Oscar Wilde
Our hearts and imaginations need to dance and play if we are to live awake - Jaeda DeWalt
I should and can play better. That is going to be the challenge for me. - Andrew Strauss
Women have a role to play in global development. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football. - Fran Lebowitz
I have never seen anyone bothering to play at putting heavy women’s markup on a pit-bull, now, looking at this specimen of womanhood, I could surely understand why. - Gary Edward Gedall
you are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who never quits, who strives to be his personal best, and who believes in fair play. - Rosemary Rawlins
Writing which flows is more like play than work! - Suzy Davies
The irony of life is a twisted game; but my god you learn fast, the ins and outs of how to play your part the best you can. - Nikki Rowe
If you're going to play the game properly you'd better know every rule. - Barbara Jordan
All work and no play will make you sad and grey! - Habeeb Akande
I will not play it safe! I want to experience the length, depth, and breadth of life. I'm not just here for the victories... I'm here for the scars. - Steve Maraboli
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don`t appreciate the moment until it's passed. - Kanye West
Don't study science. Play with it. - Abhijit Naskar
A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously. - Bruce Lee
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make. - Max Beckmann
Why, play we, these games of mere men? - Daniel A. Craig
I am a lover of words.If your words don't play with me,nothing else in you will. - Wordions
A person cannot change his personality. The only thing he can change is 'habit'. He can play around with behaviors though. - Andrea L'Artiste
It's the best way of telling the truth; it's a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. Beyond that [it's] delight in, and play with, language; also, a curiously intimate way of communicating with people whom you will never meet. - Julian Barnes
Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary. - Iveta Cherneva
Play With WORDS - P.M.Ashraf
I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not. - Fran Lebowitz
Life is a game, you live so you play. Follow your dreams and win what your happy heart desires. - Roel van Sleeuwen
Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back. - Richard Belzer
Life is a magical game so play it with love. - Debasish Mridha
When haters start to rear their ugly head, just play around with them and throw them a bone so they can go away and chew on it. - Richie Norton
There's a rule in acting called, "Don't play the result." If you have a character who's going to end up in a certain place, don't play that until you get there. Play each scene and each beat as it comes. And that's what you do in life: You don't play the result. - Michael J. Fox
For she could not really know how profound had become my mistrust of a world in which wars could still come into evil flower, and in which individuals could play with and brutally alter the myriad personal fates of whole nations of men and women. - Kenneth MacKenzie
An ad for cigars appears in 100,000 newspapers; sales of that brand increase by 3% for a short time thereafter. A new play receives a viciously negative review in a theatrical journal that prints 500 copies; the playwright shoots himself. Who’s the better writer? - Jason Lutes
As private parts to the gods are we! They play with us for their sport. (Lord Melchett, Blackadder.) - Richard Curtis & Ben Elton
Once, I took the penny whistle you gave me and discovered a spotby the roaring falls where I could play as loud as I wanted. I lay in the bifurcated trunkof a low-slung birch tree. The sun peeked through applauding leaves, high overhead. - Kristen Henderson
To lose a problem, do not oppose, let go of any need to control, perhaps it's all an illusion we project, more like a game we play than real? - Jay Woodman
I am usually more impressed with people who are artful in shuffling a deck, than those who can masterfully play chess. - Lionel Suggs
THE THINGS POETS & WRITERS DO THAT I LOVEListen to the AncestorsAcknowledge their influences Trust their gut-feelings and act on themMaintain openness. Play Dance with languagesBe bold Refuse servilityAvoid arroganceEmbrace the unknownLove the journey Respect one’s fellow journeyers - Billy Marshall Stoneking
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. - Robert Frost
I sometimes ask these questions to myself: Are you chasing a dream just to prove that you can catch it? Will it really bring you happiness and fulfillment? Is it really your dream or just an illusion that you want to play on people's eyes? Isn't it time to forget it and embrace your real calling? - Jorge P. Guerrero
Play life on hard. Easy might be safer but where is the fun in that? - Neila Rey
That’s great, Grace, but in case you’ve forgotten, we’re supposed to kill vampires, not play nice and have lunch with them. - Archer - K.A. Last
i want to go to the gymand pretend the weight machines are drumsand play the longest drum solo on them - Megan Boyle
Don't be afraid, just play the music. - Charlie Parker
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. - Truman Capote
In the first play, the crisis is Thomas More. In the second it’s Anne Boleyn. In the third book, and the third play, it’s crisis every day, an overlapping series of only just negotiable horrors. It’s climbing and climbing. Then a sudden abrupt fall - within days. - Hilary Mantel
Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.
Life is just like a game,First you have to learn rules of the game,And then play it better then any one else. - Albert Einstein
Do not let the roles you play in life make you forget who you are. - Roy T. Bennett
Let us play the flute of love to spread the music of peace, joy and happiness. - Debasish Mridha
Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win. - Robert Heinlein
When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner. - William Shakespeare
My ex calls the ochre winter 'autumn' as we queue to hear dock boys play jazz fugues in velvet dark.— Broken Verses - Kamila Shamsie
A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't. - Mark Twain
Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it. - Unknown
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like go for a walk, say a little prayerTake a deep breath of mountain airPut on my glove and play some catchIt's time that I make time for thatWade the shore and cast a lineLook up a long lost friend of mineSit on the porch and give my girl a kissStart livin', that's the next thing on my list. - Toby Keith
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut - Albert Einstein
On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess. - Michael Lewis
Some people said beware of enemies. Some said beware of friends and some said beware of frenemies, but the most dangerous people are those that will hurt you and still play the victim. - Uzoma Nnadi
Sorry! But I'm not a game played when ever you want to play it! - Gina Karablieh
"The harp at Nature's advent strung has never ceased to play; the song the stars of morning sung has never died away."
When you ‘lie’ to me, you don’t ‘lie down’ or lay.Even after the game you still want to play. - Munia Khan
If you are capable people are happy to play with you. - Tina Fey
Life is an unknown game, and every day you play on a new field. - Debasish Mridha
After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward. - Zeena Schreck
Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.
You are a victim only when you have decided to play the part. - Gary Hopkins
Be fair. Play hard. - Dan Venezia
This is new. Old Quinn would not have worn a skirt on her first day of sophomore year. Old Quinn would have worn a pair of jeans (hole in the knee? even better) and a t-shirt advertising the Providence Prep volleyball team, or some other sports team I didn’t play for. - Selena Brooks
Identity is the role you chose to play in the story of the Universe. - Maria V Shall
You can worship God twenty four hours a day but your destiny depends on the cards he lets you play - Stanley Victor Paskavich
What is more likely? That tomorrow will be called 'Thursday' or that Maxine Waters will play the race card in her ethics investigation? - Jonah Goldberg
I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.
Every day of life is a gift! Be sure to... unwrap it. Play with it. And, most importantly, give thanks for it! - Valerie Rickel
I want every one of our members to grow into maturity more quickly than they seem to, but the Lord has taught me to shepherd people, call them to repentance and let Matthew 18:12­–14 play out. - Matt Chandler
Opera, n. A play representing life in another world whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures, and no postures but attitudes. - Ambrose Bierce
The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with. - Ryan Lilly
Her smile was like a Samuel Beckett play - easy to read but difficult to interpret. - Bob Smith
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike. - John Muir
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. - Henry Van Dyke
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. - Kahlil Gibran
I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it. - George Brett
Kindness went out to play all on a summer's day. With her about many smiles came out and joined in sweet array., "Mother Goose Move Over or you're gonna love poetry - Sara Loo
The mind creates a story in a strange way. Love keeps us together in this eternal play. - Debasish Mridha
Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. - J.R. Rim
A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results. - Benjamin Disraeli
Some are born to play it safe Others are born to live it wild. - Nikki Rowe
Play it fuckin' loud! - Bob Dylan
The world is a stage and the play is badly cast. - Oscar Wilde
Don't we all know that art is dangerous. You play it - then you live it. - Stefan Balint
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. - Plato
Life is a magnificent and magical game. To win, play with utmost care and profound love. - Debasish Mridha
You can tell far too much about a person by which monopoly piece they play as. - Harry Styles
You invite a few players in to start a game of Texas Hold'em by telling them that the deck doesn't have any jacks or queens in it and that you won't tell the other people who come to play with them. How do you get people into the casino? You pay the brokers to bring them there. - Michael Lewis
Imagination is tapping into the subconscious in a form of open play. That is why art or music therapy, which encourages a person to take up brushes and paint or an instrument, and just express themselves, is so powerful. - Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney
the lost sense that we play out our lives as part of a greater story - David Whyte
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. - Immanuel Kant
Liberty is only possible on the condition of regularity. We cannot be free and play the game of life without abiding to the rules, but the rules have to be adapted constantly in line with our experiences and the events we encounter. ( If he doesn't play ball ) - Erik Pevernagie
...So to be fast to don't be long and to try to be short... If you want to play the best game, create it - make the rules, make what they will do... That's how I do it. I make people to play my games and then often loooose! - Deyth Banger
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Everyone has the right to play their cards their own way. - Marty Rubin
Life is but a play and we are merely the characters of our own scene. - kamar brown
Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence. - Og Mandino
You're the only one that can put pressure on yourself... No one else can put pressure on you. It's self-inflicted. For me, I just want to go out and play football. - Maurice Jones-Drew
You won't find angels in hell, only demons that know how to play with yours. - Shannon L. Alder
A Broken Record can still play the best soundtrack. Broken can be beautiful when you allow God work on you. - Kemi Sogunle
You've captured my flag but I captured your imagination. It's true you regulate what I grow, regulate what i know, and to pray or to play I got to pay you a fee, pero we both know that you wish you could dance like me. - Vincent Torres
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God - Henry Kissinger
The future will be bright, if you play it right! - Debasish Mridha
In achieving your greatest potential in life, the more enemies you'll make but just Take care and play the game smart. - Auliq Ice
If music is the way of life, play on. - By Iqra Mirza
Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain. - Aristotle
while you play bowling with one ball you will be late because untill come in that ball it's need time so you need more than one ball in order to defeat the whole army . - Ragir saeed
I like to play saxophone because you don't inhale.
We have to play what is actually in demand, and we have to play it as well and as beautifully and as expressively as ever we can.
Where'd the days go, when all we did was play? And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at all just a run and a jump into a harmless fall - Paolo Nutini
Some people say beware of enemies. Some say beware of friends and some say beware of frenemies, but the most dangerous people are those that will hurt you and still play the victim. - Uzoma Nnadi
Yes, even in your mouse moods you only play with the idea of not being." She cleared her throat again. "Biology, you see. It’s because of biology that we want to live and not to die. And it is because of biology that we come to a time when we want to die and not to live. - Aiden Chambers
Earth is wonderful stadium to play, till you are on pitch. - Waseem Latif
work, pray and play not from here - Eman Herzallah
Death likes it when you play hard to get. - Randy K. Milholland
When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
It's just incrediable if I play a game, I think don't I?If I watch a film, I just finish a book... - Deyth Banger
And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama. - Gordon Atkinson
I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.
Mourning is never really complete. The mappings of the old play remain in the cortex, like those mappings of the phantom limb. - Robert A Berezin
Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. - Craig Claiborne
The biggest power play in the world is understanding your own power and then unleashing it to reach your goals and follow your dreams. - La La Anthony
Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly. - Robert W. Cox
When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean ... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing. - Theodore Roosevelt
As I’m beginning to find out, parenting is no child’s play, it couldSometimes determine whether couples continue to live together orgo their separate ways. - Oche Otorkpa
Play to win, not "not to lose". - Dondi Scumaci
With age, gone are the forevers of youth. Gone is the willingness to procrastinate, delay, to play the waiting game. Now each day is a treasure beyond compare . . . because there are so few such diadems left. - Joe L. Wheeler
This twisted cat and mouse game always starts the sameFirst we're both down to play and somehow you go astray - Iggy Azalea
The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard.' The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable. - Simon Sinek
My favorite part of the game is the opportunity to play.
English is only a weak second language, so that the third language--which at the moment is getting the most play, since French is what I speak, read, and hear almost 24/7--is trying to take over the no. 2 spot. - Apol Lejano-Massebieau
To find the rainbow and life’s incredible beauties, learn to play with adversity. - Debasish Mridha
I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back. - Lindsay Lohan
Do not be complacent about your achievements and not to strive for continual improvement when you get to the top. As soon as you let success go to your head, you sink into following familiar patterns and play it safe. In other words, you risk losing your edge. - Roy T. Bennett
But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it. - C.S. Lewis
In the darkness of night when universe sleepsYou come and play with my stringsNo one can see or feel it but I doYou are my love. - Debasish Mridha
We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play. - Charles E. Schaefer
We may not play with the new theology even if we may think we can turn it to our advantage. - Francis A. Schaeffer
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. - Alan W. Watts
The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need. - Ann Richards
The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas. - George Bernard Shaw
Anyone can do whatever they want in life, this is our world to play in. - Chad Hofmann
Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play. - Nora Roberts
Okay, time to play doctor.Her entire body quivered, sending yes please vibes to her brain. Luckily her mouth intercepted them. Sure, if I can be the doctor.His mouth curved. I’m willing to take turns, but me first. - Jill Shalvis
Never ignore the elephant in the room. That’s rude; play with it and introduce it. - Donna Lynn Hope
He didn't want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth. - John Boyne
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it. - Charlie Chaplin
The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life because that is the only reality; all else being the play of thought. But it might as well be our greatest folly because that which exists only a moment and vanishes as a dream can never be worth a serious effort. - Irvin D. Yalom
Life: You either play the hand you're dealt, or fold.....I choose to play.~ - Rick Ferreira
How come we play war and not peace?""Too few role models. - Bill Watterson
I am just like you,Destined to play my part.And leave,In the nature of my departure at least,Some kind of sweet message behindIn the fathomless pattern I make. - Scott Hastie
Words are the timeless beauties; they tell a thousand stories, deliver your purpose, speak the heart and build character. The play and interaction of words amuse me, hence the power of words is my love. - Sharlene Leong
Play a bigger part in doing more good in the world, it is good for you and for business. - Wesam Fawzi
In order to survive our youth, many of us became sensitized to which conditions we had to play to, to receive attention. No wonder we mistook this attention for love. We thought love came in finite quantities—it had to be competed for among siblings, or it had to be paid for with exacting dues. - Maureen Brady
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Insights are everything. They play central parts in the actualization of destiny. A dangerous insights becomes a colossal executioner. Latching your fate with noble thoughts spares you a life of self-limitation. - Darmie Orem
Who makes you Storyteller? You do. You are. Go play. - Will Hindmarch
It only takes a tenth grade course on evolution to know that the prostate g-spot’s existence alone is proof that ass play has been done for a very, very long time. - Maggie Young
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself. - Marty Rubin
If You Want To Play With Me, Let's Play.But Remember One Thing There is No Rules in This Game! - Stephenie Meyer
How does a poor country defeat rich ones? Indeed, the answer is not by acquiring wealth in the sense that France has it. Meaning vineyards, farms, peasants, cows? But rather to play a sort of trick and redefine wealth to mean something novel. Currency! Indeed. - Neal Stephenson
Play More, Pray More; Get More, Give More…Live More!-RVM - R.v.m.
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele. - Bagdikian's Observation
your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm you play upon me, drumming me taught. - Jeanette Winterson
Life is a song. Your thoughts are the music. Now play beautiful music and sing a wonderful song. - Debasish Mridha
The bubbly play of wit, the chesty laughs, the resonant voices of men when glass in hand they shut the grey world outside and prod their brains with the fun and folly of an accelerated pulse. - Jack London
Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.
Are we not all actors playing parts in another person's play? - Shannon L. Alder
Life is a piano what you get out of it depends on how you play it - Tom Lehrer
An author is similar to an actor. They play many characters in their lives—photographer, nurse, dancer, doctor, writer, etc. As an author, you have to learn your craft, know each and every element to become that character you’re writing about to be able to live and breathe what they do. - Mischa Temaul
He'd wanted to mend her just like his mother had mended his favorite teddy bear when his arm had come loose after too much play. He offered her his pudding cup instead. - Brooke Warra
One can only ask to play as well as possible the notes one is given. - Peter Høeg
Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you. - Gary Oldman
Life is the most amazing game. Play hard with a deep love so that you may enjoy it. - Debasish Mridha
If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white. - Zenna Henderson
Life's like the piano and the violin, it's about how smart you could play the melodies to make a good harmony. - Lucy 'Aisy
The sound of life, Everyone has got their own song playing in the background of their life , some has melody and some has depressing music and some extra ordinary people are standing their choosing the type of music that they want to play - Be that kind of people. - Alamvusha
When you play music you discover a part of yourself that you never knew existed. - Bill Evans
Life is an amazingly mysterious and interesting game. To win, you have to play with the magical powers of love and kindness. - Debasish Mridha
Play the game of peace, not the war.Play, not with gun, but with laughter. - Debasish Mridha
The sign of a true woman isn't the ability to recite French poetry or play the pianoforte or cook Chateaubriand. The sign of a true woman is learning to listen to her own voice even when society does its best to drown it out. - Eve Marie Mont
Learn the rules. And play by the rules. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province. - Albert Einstein
At every age we play the same game, just by different rules. - Mohammed Khambaty
The worst thing about being concise with people is the game of puzzle you've made them play. - Michael Bassey Johnson
What did I hope to gain from my game and from putting my parents through all this? The truth is that I loved to play. My body was fit and my mind raring to go. But I also hoped that I would get a government job through the sports quota. - M.C. Mary Kom
Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray, where nature heals and give strength to body and soul alike. - John Muir
First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play. - Charlie Parker
God does not play dice, bankers do. - Greg Curtis
You have to put yourself out there as a writer, you can’t play it safe. - Dan Alatorre
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice. - George Bernard Shaw
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. - Albert Einstein
A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't. - Unknown
The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective. - Henry David Thoreau
That's the thing about marriage. It's a shell game we play with ourselves. We're the suckers and we have to lose, but we play anyway because we lie to ourselves that we can win. - Randy K. Milholland
There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches. - Will Rogers
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself. - Johann Sebastian Bach
Today, make time to play. - Na'ama Yehuda
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. - Bob Hope
When it comes to taking chances, some people like to play poker or shoot dice; other people prefer to parachute jump, go rhino hunting, or climb ice floes, while still others engage in crime or marriage. But I like to get drunk and drive like a fool. - P. J. O'Rourke
Fun is closely related to Joy -- a sort of emotional froth arising from the play of instinct. - C.S. Lewis
I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life. - Oscar Wilde
The concert we give is winning. And if all the people in our organization whose instrument is scouting of player development or major league scouting or player knowledge, all play well, we're going to have the most beautiful symphony of success. And I think we have. - John Schuerholz
This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness. - Kate DiCamillo
Following the rules only takes you so far, sooner or later you have to forget them and play by your heart. - G.J. Walker-Smith
Nothing in life is promised. Each day is a valuable opportunity to play an important role in this world. Treat each moment like it's the performance of a lifetime; approach every show like it's your first, respect it as if you've invested years, appreciate it like it's your last. - Carlos Wallace
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. - Fran Lebowitz
The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly. - Theodore Roosevelt
We always glorify war, but why? We have war memorials everywhere but I never saw a peace memorial yet. We teach our children war game. We let them play game which is not other than a legal war but we expect peace from them. How foolish that could be! - Debasish Mridha
Play your music so the earth can dance. - Marty Rubin
Work, home, or play we should all aspire to inspire everyday. - Mark W. Boyer
As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told. - Rita Webb
....Game, game! game!! they say life is game, either you win or lose but you have to play. Other say life is a journey that you have to travel, either you reach the destination or not. Is that all about life? NO life is not that. Life is LIFE which means Let your Inner-self Find the Eternity. - SatishSharma
Don't play dumb. You're not as good at it as I am.
To play it safe is not to play. - Robert Altman
Like never before the trajectories of wealth, business, and poverty can be altered in unexpected ways by women. The field of dreams is being reconstructed by technology and the knowledge economy so that the gates, ceilings, doors, and portals are wide open for all who want to play. - Lillian Gregory
The trick to being smart is knowing when to play dumb. - V. Alexander
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