Play Quotes

I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.

~ Joe E. Lewis

I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups.

~ Rooney Mara

There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.

~ Rebecca Lobo

Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.

~ Peter Ueberroth

Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

~ Harry Vardon

I would love to play alongside Wayne Rooney. He does the running of two or three players and makes a lot of space. We would be the perfect combination.

~ Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Deployable structures have a key role to play in enabling new satellite constellations, particularly with regards to size and weight constraints, and Oxford Space Systems' suite of products will allow their customers to build much greater capability into much smaller satellites.

~ Chad Anderson

I have some NASA memorabilia from the early Apollo days that I can't imagine parting with. I've always wanted to play sort of like a space cowboy, too, like the idea of Captain Kirk. I think that's everybody's dream though, right?

~ Matthew Daddario

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

~ Eugene Jarvis

Technologies evolve in the strangest ways. Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions. Creating amusing illusions is a big business if you play it right.

~ Howard Rheingold

Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been a computer to play 'Pong,' a little microprocessor embedded, and then other games that came after that.

~ Rodney Brooks

We play everybody's Christmas records at our house, and sometimes you think, 'I'm not gonna play my own record; I'd be embarrassed.' But I'm gonna play our record this Christmas, because I love the songs!

~ Trisha Yearwood

I've been playing on Christmas for the last 10, 11, 12 years. So just got to get up early with the babies, and give them their toys and try to get a nap in and just come to play.

~ Shaquille O'neal

The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving.

~ Tinashe

Yep, I'm a geek. Ever since I got the Millennium Falcon for Christmas in 1978. And I still have it, in perfect condition, just without the box... but I still play with it!

~ Joseph Gatt

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

~ Thomas Tusser

Play is the work of childhood.

~ Jean Piaget

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

~ Arnold J. Toynbee

We're going to have to work. We're going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

~ Stephen Curry

For the triangle to really work, everybody needs to be on the same page and know how to play it.

~ Kristaps Porzingis

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

~ Eddie Van Halen

When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.

~ Jason Lee

I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.

~ Ian Mckellen

I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.

~ Jason Lee

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

~ Leo Buscaglia

Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.

~ Matthew Green

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

~ Gilbert White

I've never studied the classics, but I'd like to. My teacher offered to show me how the Greeks were able to sculpt someone perfectly. From there, you can go off and experiment - sort of like jazz. Once you learn to play anything, you can break the form and go and do something even bigger.

~ Channing Tatum

I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.

~ Travis Barker

I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.

~ Ian Mcshane

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

~ Matt Cameron

I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.

~ Novak Djokovic

I think my versatility is a big strength. I don't think anybody can guard me, just because I'm 6'10 and can dribble and play point. If I have a little guy on me, I take him to the post. For me to be able to then pass the ball, it helps me a lot.

~ Ben Simmons

Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.

~ John Forsythe

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.

~ Dave Navarro

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

~ Jean Giraudoux

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

~ Jimi Hendrix

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

~ Duke Ellington

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.

~ John Frusciante

When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.

~ Sam Shepard