Quotation Explorer - 'Plays'

I am an Author a person that plays with words that dance in the minds of others - Stanley Victor Paskavich
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players.They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts... - William Shakespeare
We meet lots of people in a lifetime and we lose some of them over a period of time . But every person who comes in lives has a purpose to serve.. NO MEETING IS AN ACCIDENT, EVERY PERSON THAT WE MEET PLAYS A ROLE IN OUR LIVES, WHETHER WE REALIZE IT OR NOT. - Raj Kiran Atagaraha
The creative mind plays with the object it loves. - C.G. Jung
Please. Put the gun down and we'll talk. A beautiful woman holding a small cannon plays hell with my concentration. Christovao (Chris) Santos, Sanctuary - Sharon K. Garner
we are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars. - Alan Chadwick
I'm in my 40s and I'm constantly surprised by how much my childhood still plays a part in my life. - Sara Sheridan
The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds. - Jacques Derrida
When love plays your life, and left you nothing but a memory of a broken heart heart,let the pain runs out in your eyes, it will make you feel better.Don't think you're strong when you're not, it will only makes you feel weaker.Be wise, accept, forgive and forget with no regret. - Bradley B. Dalina
When a man plays with your heart it is for one of two reasons: He knows he can or he is undecided. - Shannon L. Alder
Half the point in reading novels and seeing plays and films is to exercise the faculty of sympathy with our own kind, so often obliterated in the multifarious controls and compulsions of actual social existence. - Germaine Greer
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. - Bertrand Russell
All creative work begins as play. The more one plays, the better one works. - Marty Rubin
It has been acknowledged by many that an actor often plays the character in a reel life better than other contenders only if that projected picture role or image is opposite to his/her actual nature in a real life. It is usually a good method to know the true identity of a Cine and TV personality. - Anuj Somany
Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating realityitself. - Stanislav Grof
There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. - Alfred North Whitehead
Time plays no favorites and will pass whether you act or not. Take control of your life. Dare to dream and take risks...Compete! If you aren't willing to work for you goals, don't expect others to! Believe in yourself. - Anonymous
The wind plays its own music. - Bert McCoy
There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. - Alfred North Whitehead
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden. - Buddha
There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth. - Oscar Wilde
The mind may never achieve or express anything great unless emotion plays a part. - Ben Johnson
Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves. - C.S. Lewis
It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it as with a ball. - Henryk Sienkiewicz
Love does not wait for the right person and the right time. It happens with anyone when the heart plays the rhyme. - Debasish Mridha
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. - Tom Stoppard
Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse. - Patrick Rothfuss
God wants us to delight in living His purpose for us, which is why our passion plays a huge part! - Paige Omartian
I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare. - Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul. - Wassilly Kandinsky
Memories lurk like dustballs in the backs of drawers. The stereo is a special model that plays only music fraught with poignant associations. - Jay McInerney
When the melody plays, footsteps move, heart sings and spirit begin to dance. - Shah Asad Rizvi
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
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. - Wayne Gretzky
beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part. - William Carlos Williams
Curiosity is the intellectual need to answer questions and close open patterns. Story plays to this universal desire by doing the opposite, posing questions and opening situations. - Robert McKee
The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his purpose, which is as strong as the dream. He is not someone possessed, like Cassandra, but a passionate, easily tempted explorer who fully intends to get home again, like Odysseus. - John Gardner
When love plays your life, and left you nothing but a memory of a broken heart,let the pain runs out in your eyes, it will make you feel better.Don't think you're strong when you're not, it will only makes you feel weaker.Be wise, accept, forgive and forget with no regret. - Bradley B. Dalina
The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the part. - Miguel de Cervantes
When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny. - Tina Fey
Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us? How dare we let it into our decision making; into our livelihoods; into our relationships? It's funny isn't it? We take a day a year to dress up, in costume and celebrate fear.
What we think & how we think plays a major role in creating the life we live. If you want to change your life, change the way you look at things around. - Taranpreet Singh
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart! - Eliza Cook
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful. - Dame Rose Macaulay
DRAMATIST, n. One who adapts plays from the French. - Ambrose Bierce
An illusionist can make himself disappear; a musician can do the same thing: When he plays a piano, after a while we start seeing only the music, not the man! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Possession is not only when the devil plays hide and seek in your brain or poison your medula oblongata with negativity, but it is also when you are under the influence of the same specie as you! - Michael Bassey Johnson
Your heart plays a song like a broken music box, but nothing ever sounded quite so beautiful to me. Together, in the dance of wounded-wing swans we’ll rise above the ruins, melting into the golden light. - John Mark Green
I am an Author a person who plays with words so they can dance in the minds of others - Stanley Victor Paskavci
Like a father with his daughter, the writist plays peek-a-boo with the world. His aim is to evoke that sweet smile, the one that says "i remember you. I am glad you are here again". - D.A. Botta
History plays for keeps; individuals play for time. - Gregory Maguire
To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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