Play Quotes - Page 32

• A dirty player is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There's a huge difference. There's no gray in that. Like, you have no conscience, no nothing, no guilt. I don't have that mean streak in me. I don't play angry. It's not anger.

  Ndamukong Suh

  Hurt, Dirty, Mean

  "He Didn't Mean to Hurt You" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, www.gq.com. August 20, 2012.

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• If you find my aggressive and dominating play dirty, then that's your opinion. But I would assume most people want someone who is going to do anything and everything within the lines to win for their team, because I know I would.

  Ndamukong Suh

  Team, Dirty, Winning

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• Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

  James Heckman

  Creating, Gaps, Roles

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• The scriptures offer us so many doctrinal diamonds. And when the light of the Spirit plays upon their several facets, they sparkle with celestial sense and illuminate the path we are to follow.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Light, Scripture, Path

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• As a person, to inspire some young girls and give them something to look at and give them something to play for, I think is such a great position to be in. Im glad that I can follow all of the great Korean players footsteps.

  Inbee Park

  Girl, Thinking, Player

  "Final interviews from the U.S. Women's Open". Interview with Christina Lance, www.lpga.com. June 30, 2013.

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• The propensity to play is situated in very ancient regions of the brain. Rats that have had their neocortex removed still engage in normal play.

  Jaak Panksepp

  Brain, Rats, Normal

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• Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Pain, Keys, Cities

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

  Janet Montgomery

  Hate, Character, Actors

  "HitFix Interview: Janet Montgomery talks ‘Human Target,’ ‘Black Swan’ and more". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. November 16, 2010.

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• I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Acting, Actors

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.155

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• Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.

  E. B. White

  Fire, Hot, Heat

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• Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.

  Horace

  Fierce, Strife

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• In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.

  Horace

  Boys, Mirth, Nonsense

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• To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

  George Eliot

  Women, Thinking, Winning

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.529, Broadview Press

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• To blow is not to play on the flute; you must move the fingers.
  [Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Music, Moving, Blow

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• Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Holiday, Effort, Feelings

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.206

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• Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

  Jonathan Swift

  Drama, Men, Might

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• Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Genius, Faculty, Humans

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1836). “Conversations with Children on the Gospels”, p.39

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• Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes”

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• It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.

  William Hazlitt

  Drama, Remarkable, Virtuous

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1501, Delphi Classics

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• Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning.

  Sarah Lewis

  Curiosity

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• When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.

  Robert Frost

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• Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hard Work, Men, Quests

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• The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.

  Honore de Balzac

  Fashion, Kings, Paris

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• It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Strong, Exercise

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• Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail,
  Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay;
  Though darken'd in this poor life by a veil
  Of suffering, dying matter, we shall play
  In truth's eternal sunbeams; on the way
  To heaven's high capitol our cars shall roll;
  The temple of the Power whom all obey,
  That is the mark we tend to, for the soul
  Can take no lower flight, and seek no meaner goal.

  James Gates Percival

  Goal, Car, Heaven

  James Gates Percival (1821). “Poems by James G. Percival ...”, p.322

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