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If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
-- A. A. Milne

#Writing #Play #History

Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.
-- A. E. Housman

#Play #Long #Tunes

Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.
-- A. W. Tillinghast

#Home #Golf #Play

I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.
-- Aaliyah

#School #Play #Parent

Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.
-- Aaron Belz

#Stars #Writing #Play

I don't know why we play better on the road. I really don't. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don't think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you'd like to see our home record be a little better than it is.
-- Aaron Boone

#Home #Thinking #Play

Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
-- Aaron Carter

#Home #Animal #Play

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.
-- Aaron Copland

#Play #Want #Sixty

My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.
-- Aaron Levie

#Night #Weekend #Play

It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
-- Aaron Neville

#Technology #Play #People

If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.
-- Aaron Neville

#Baby #Boys #Play

If you are serious, don't play with my heart, it makes me furious.
-- Aaron Neville

#Relationship #Heart #Play

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
-- Aaron Paul

#Thinking #Class #Play

I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's your homeland or when you're traveling. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life.
-- Aaron Rodgers

#Thinking #Play #People

The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important that mental rest is. It's a grind physically during the season, dealing with the hits and the physical pain that goes with playing in this game. But mentally it's probably more taxing, so you need that ability to find that escape.
-- Aaron Rodgers

#Pain #Games #Play

When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Summer #Writing #Play

The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Writing #Play #Watches

Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Boys #Play #Roles

Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
-- Aaron Taylor-Johnson

#Song #Couple #Play

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
-- Aaron Taylor-Johnson

#Hard Work #Play #Knowing

Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.
-- Aaron Tveit

#Play #Interesting #People

I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.
-- Aaron Tveit

#Play #People #Stuff

I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.
-- Aaron Tveit

#Teacher #Play #Car

In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes. I've had to do it before with stage roles, to get roles. I'm drawn to kind of darker, misfit things. I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.
-- Aaron Tveit

#Play #People #Different

Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
-- Aaron Yoo

#Dream #Play #Want

I don't know how I'm gonna pick up a bat again. I just need to be away for a bit and play with my dogs.
-- AB de Villiers

#Dog #Play #Bats

Della was my go all in. She was my winning hand. You can't play when you go all in and lose. I'm out." "No, you're not. This hand ain't over yet," Rush said.
-- Abbi Glines

#Winning #Hands #Play

I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.
-- Abbie Cornish

#Play #Piano #Keyboards

We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#Islamic #Play #People

I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#Golf #Play #Giving

We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#Children #Fighting #Play

I never want to play the same character twice. I like to do different roles. I have fun with that.
-- Abigail Breslin

#Fun #Character #Play

I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
-- Abigail Washburn

#Girl #Pretty Girl #Play

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

#Science #Self #Play

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
-- Abraham Flexner

#Play #Liberty #Roles

You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can can play the 'Gloria'? No, not Bach's 'Gloria.' Yours! Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.
-- Abraham Verghese

#Son #Play #Three

Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
-- Ace Frehley

#Thinking #Play #Feelings

I never set my sights low. I've always believed most people are ruined by the limitations they put on themselves. I was never afraid to take that step, to see what I was capable of doing. Does luck play a role in success, particularly in a creative field? Sure it does. But if you don't have the balls to give it a shot, you're destined to fail.
-- Ace Frehley

#Sight #Play #People

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
-- Ace Frehley

#Song #Guitar #Play

I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
-- Ace Frehley

#Guitar #Practice #Play

As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.
-- Ace Frehley

#Thinking #Keys #Play

I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.
-- Adam Driver

#School #Mean #Play

The best compliment for me is when someone says they'll pay to watch me play, And I can say that I'll pay to watch MS Dhoni bat. MS is not the next Gilchrist. He's the first MS Dhoni
-- Adam Gilchrist

#Play #Ms Dhoni #Bats

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.
-- Adam Levine

#Song #Writing #Play

I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.
-- Adam Oates

#Team #Hockey #Play

You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
-- Adam Oates

#Mom #Sleep #Play

And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct martyr/victim, aesthetic terrorists will not involve themselves in the dubious rewards of celebrity. The best of them will work alone, already a part of the enemy camp, and in chameleon-like style master the fifth-column algorithms to subvert the ancient regime. We won't know them by their name but their compensation will be to affect the outcome of the planet. Until then, there's a lot of work to be done.
-- Adam Parfrey

#Play #Names #Dumb

One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
-- Adam Rapp

#Writing #Play #People

I appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature. I've written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it's important for people to know that theatre is vital. Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town. Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It's killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
-- Adam Rapp

#Thinking #Play #Appreciate

We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.
-- Adam Rich

#Play #Heavy #Melody

With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message.
-- Adam Rickitt

#Government #Media #Play

I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.
-- Adam Sandler

#Character #Play #Circles

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.
-- Adam Schiff

#Powerful #Play #America

[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
-- Adam Sedgwick

#Horse #Games #Play

It feels good to play a little music / Tears running down my face 'cause I love to do it
-- Adam Yauch

#Running #Play #Feel Good

Each man has some part to play.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter

#Men #Play #Acting

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.
-- Adelaide Clemens

#Play #Kind #Type

I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you're supposed to be 40 lbs lighter, but weight has nothing to do with my career. Even when I was signing a contract, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say lose weight to me, they wouldn't be working with me.
-- Adele

#Self Esteem #Play #Careers

At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.
-- Adepero Oduye

#Beautiful #Character #Play

I create a playlist for each and every character that I play.
-- Adhir Kalyan

#Character #Play #Playlists

I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.
-- Adrian Belew

#Play #Might #Band

I love drums and still play frequently.
-- Adrian Belew

#Play #Stills

I have the mentality that if you come in playing not to get hurt, that's when you're going to get hurt. So I play relentless.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Hurt #Play #Relentless

Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway. Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself.
-- Adrian Tan

#Jobs #Hate #Play

It's just a huge boost for us to have one extra playmaker on our defense. He makes so many impact plays and changes the game a lot.
-- Adrian Wilson

#Impact #Games #Play

I would love to play Wonder Woman on the big screen.
-- Adrianne Palicki

#Play #Wonder Woman #Wonder

Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation. Habit can become a second nature, but, wrongly directed (or guided), it may also heighten (or intensify) unfortunate tendencies and be an obstacle to progress.
-- African Spir

#Play #Progress #Roles

I don't care if it's rap, metal, whatever. You still should play Beatles records mixed with Limp Bizkit mixed with Foghat mixed with Creedence Clearwater Revival, stuff like that.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Rap #Play #Stuff

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.
-- Agnes de Mille

#Dance #Play

fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Play #Groups #Fairness

Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.
-- Agnieszka Radwanska

#Winning #Opposites #Play

We must not rest until right livelihood is within reach of every human being upon this earth we love and cherish. We all have a role to play in achieving this goal.
-- Agnivesh

#Play #Goal #Achievement

I want to play positive role models - women who mean something to other women.
-- Agyness Deyn

#Mean #Play #Role Models

We have a problem with several media taking only a part of the reality and not the whole picture. Some media in the world are more critical towards what's happening than others. It depends on the journalist, it depends how much information they have about the case and which perspective they are asking you from. All of these things can play a role.
-- Ahmed Akkari

#Reality #Media #Play

The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren't for them, the reactor would explode. A society without a middle class is a society primed for explosion.
-- Ahmed Toufiq

#Class #Play #Nuclear

Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will.
-- Aidan of Lindisfarne

#Play #Who We Are #Free Will

Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Men #Play #Laughing

One of these days in the next 10 years, I will play 'Evita.' I don't know when or where, but I love 'Evita', especially with all my Latin and Spanish studies. It's a very demanding role but I'd love to play it.
-- Aileen Quinn

#Latin #Years #Play

You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the dough, though. But having said that, there's a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn't great.
-- Aimee Mann

#Play #Needs #Limits

Despite being in showbiz, I have a very real approach to my life. It plays off with my social life.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#Real #Play #Social

How many times have you tried to solve “the problem”? you’ll be trying to solve it not just until you die but for many more lifetimes. Instead, understand that this world is just the play of the senses. It’s the five khandhas doing their thing; it has nothing to do with you. It’s just people being people, the world being the world.
-- Ajahn Brahm

#Play #People #Trying

When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.
-- Ajay Naidu

#Boys #Games #Play

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.
-- Ajay Naidu

#Character #Play #Trying

A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game.
-- Al Davis

#Athlete #Games #Play

I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now.
-- Al Gore

#Play #Doubt #Energy

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.
-- Al Gore

#Play #Political #Empowering

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
-- Al Gore

#Thinking #Play #Roles

Rich could play way better than Krupa.
-- Al Hirt

#Play #Way #Rich

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.
-- Al Kaline

#Work #Play #Able

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.
-- Al Leiter

#Play #Chess #Pitcher

The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #Moon #Play

When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.
-- Al Pacino

#Reading #Play #Things Happen

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'
-- Al Pacino

#Inspirational #Play #Violent

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
-- Al Pacino

#Cutting #Play #Mind

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.
-- Al Pacino

#Character #Play #Would Be

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
-- Al Sharpton

#Play #Too Much #Way

You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
-- Al Yankovic

#Block #Kids #Play

You cannot play with fire.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Fire #Play

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.
-- Alain de Botton

#Play #Judgement #Identity

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.
-- Alain de Botton

#Practice #Play #Violin