Play Quotes - page 4

The fountain of death makes the still waters of life play. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. View quote
Mark Twain
God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again. View quote
Federico Fellini
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost. View quote
Arthur Miller
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. View quote
Jean Cocteau
If we don't play God, who will? View quote
James D. Watson
You need three or five hands to play Ligeti. View quote
Alfred Brendel
Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth. View quote
Barbara Stanwyck
If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that. View quote
Paul Schrader
I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge. (Shawn Ashmore)
I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't. View quote
Alton Brown
I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper air-planes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart. View quote
Niall Horan
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. View quote
Warren Beatty
I don't play in any tournaments to come second best. View quote
Andy Murray
I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born. View quote
Charlie Parker
I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. View quote
Groucho Marx
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz. View quote
Thelonious Monk
At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool. View quote
Menander
Play is the answer to how anything new comes about. (Jean Piaget)
We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. View quote
James Thurber
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found. View quote
William James
Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced. View quote
Bob Black
Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball. View quote
Magic Johnson