Play Quotes - Page 7

• People who stand near the water in the darkness are either lovers or poets. Or else ... one of that great gray number who've simply had it -- who throw in their hand and won't play anymore.

  Wolfgang Borchert

  Hands, Numbers, People

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• You cannot find the centre Where we dance , where we play, Where life is still asleep Under the closed flower , Under the smooth shell Of eggs in the cupped nest That mock the faded blue Of your remoter heaven .

  R. S. Thomas

  Flower, Blue, Eggs

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• I'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar.

  Joe Satriani

  Guitar, One Thing

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• When I want to play music, you've got to get me on tape or else it goes.

  Joe Satriani

  Tape, Want

  Guitar 2001 magazine, Issue 10, Summer 2001.

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• With joint-stock corporations, investors can place bets on the success of many different companies, without having to play a central management role in any one of them. This allows investors to diversify their financial holdings. It also allows them to capture profits on their investments, without having to get involved in the dirty, troublesome business of actually running a company.

  Jim Stanford

  Running, Dirty, Different

  Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

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• A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play.

  John Carroll

  Adventure, Lust, Ends

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.119, Taylor & Francis

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• Most chess books only sell a few thousand copies, and a book titled something like "Women in Chess" would sell even fewer. The idea with this title was to spread the book outside the competitive chess world. I'm interested in attracting readers who love chess but play only casually, and feminists interested in male-dominated fields.

  Jennifer Shahade

  Book, Ideas, Feminist

  "Jennifer Shahade, Author, Chess Bitch, U.S. Women's Chess Champion 2002, 2004". Interview with Rachel Kramer Bussel, gothamist.com. December 28, 2006.

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• One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then lets the play deepen and deepen until it is a reality that few would even dare to entertain...The human imagination is the holographic organ of the human body, and we don't 'imagine' anything. We simply see things so far away that there is no possibility of validating or invalidating their existence.

  Terence McKenna

  Ocean, Reality, Imagination

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• And i know better, not to be friends with boys with girlfriends, oh I know better than that, i know better. you'll play the victim, and i'll be the bad guy, but i know better than that, no i know better.

  Meiko

  Girlfriend, Boys, Guy

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• What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophesy or as poesy...should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open up new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth.

  Margaret Fuller

  Believe, Inspiration, Creativity

  "Woman in the Nineteenth Century". Book by Margaret Fuller, 1845.

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• A stage play ought to be the point of intersection between the visible and invisible worlds, or, in other words, the display, the manifestation of the hidden.

  Arthur Adamov

  World, Invisible, Stage

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• We have the ability, at such high fidelity, to simulate the physical world through computers. But when the spiritual world or human behavior comes into play, we don't have a very good model for that at all.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Spiritual, World, High Fidelity

  "Buzz Aldrin: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 25, 2012.

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• I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day. The Lakers had the Showtime era. Boston had six hall of famers on one team. You had Detroit, the New York Knicks, and now the Miami Heat. They were stacking their teams back then, it just fell off over the years and now it picked back up. Boston did it first, then LA. I was fortunate enough to play against them when they had Shaq, Kobe, Rick Fox, Gary Payton, Karl Malone... that's five hall of famers on one team! So you can't get mad at Miami for doing what they did.

  Carmelo Anthony

  New York, Team, Thinking

  "Talking with Our Mouths Full: Carmelo Anthony". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 11, 2011.

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• I want to retire in New York, let's be quite frank. I think a lot of people jumped the gun when I said I wanted to be a free agent. And yeah, I want people to come to play in New York. I want them to want to play in New York. I want New York to be that place where guys want to come play.

  Carmelo Anthony

  New York, Gun, Thinking

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• Most of the time I sit down with my guitar or at the piano, and I play for awhile until I get a new riff or groove that I like a lot. Then I'll concentrate on building around that line of thought by adding words and textures. At first I'm only trying to please myself, and hopefully what I like will appeal to others.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Guitar, Piano, Trying

  "Swingin' Chicks of the '60s: A Tribute to 101 of the Decade's Defining Women". Book by Chris Strodder, 2000.

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• I'm really just trying to do things that I enjoy. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to. I just have to think if I like those different kinds of music, there are other people who aren't so different from me.

  Lyle Lovett

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Interview with Jody Denberg, www.austinchronicle.com. September 11, 1998.

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• Some people will say, "Why read a comic book? It stifles the imagination. If you read a novel you imagine what people are like. If you read a comic, it's showing you." The only answer I can give is, "You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?

  Stan Lee

  Book, Mean, People

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• Joy is a part of my process. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that poetry, as a practice, necessitates a sense of joy. It's exhilarating to come into contact with the things we write into being. And a real sense of play and abandon – even when we are relying on hard-won technique, and even when the aim is deadly serious. How often do we get the excuse to stop, think, and then stop thinking altogether and try to listen to what sits behind our outside of our thoughts? Poets are lucky.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Real, Writing, Thinking

  "Interview with Tracy K. Smith – 'Poets are Lucky'". Interview with Michael Klein, blog.pshares.org. May 30, 2012.

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• My dream has come true. I play with the great players and on a great team. I'm smiling and happy and enjoying the time of my life.

  Alexander Ovechkin

  Dream, Team, Player

  "More than just the next superstar - Ovechkin's zest for life contagious with Capitals". The Record (Kitchner, Ontario, Canada), October 27, 2006.

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• If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical language simply as a play upon words. Its full significance is revealed only when we approach it in a different manner, making our minds available to the new processes of inner perception which it suggests.

  Robert Linssen

  Attitude, Average, Perception

  Robert Linssen (1958). “Living Zen”

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• There comes a point in the game where you gotta make a play or you gotta do something to get your team over the hump, and when that time comes you gotta be able to do it.

  Tony Romo

  Team, Games, Able

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• You try and work hard and get better each week. I play the game with passion. I enjoy the game. It's a lot of fun when I'm out there. That's the way I play. For some reason, people like that.

  Tony Romo

  Fun, Hard Work, Passion

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• It's about the process. It's about getting better. 'Let's execute on this play, let's execute on this drive.' You do those things, and over the course of the season you'll get better as a team and you'll get to a point where hopefully you're playing at a high level to win the games that really become at another level.

  Tony Romo

  Team, Winning, Games

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• Fame is fleeting. That stuff comes and goes. You know, as soon as I play poorly ... you won't be doing this interview--you'll be interviewing the next guy.

  Tony Romo

  Guy, Fleeting, Stuff

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