Play Quotes - Page 104

Fish play in the water birds play in the sky ordinary beings play on the earth sublime beings play in display.

Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done so. He'd decided that it was because, imprisoned in the priceless, inquiring amber of Leonard's massive mind, underneath that bright investigative genius was a kind of willful innocence that might in lesser men be called stupidity. It was the seat and soul of that force which, down the millennia, had caused mankind to stick its fingers in the electric light socket of the Universe and play with the switch to see what happened - and then be very surprised when it did.

You can play guitar in your canteen, you know, your hair might be longer, but there's a lot more to playing than travelling around universities and things.

I'm not beholden to the public, and neither are the public beholden to me or my songs. I'm very much of a populist on those terms, I believe that the song is no longer mine anyway. I like to process the dispossession that happens when you play something live. I don't have a clue as to how these songs are going to plan out, whether they're going to be on a record. I don't know yet.

I went to a Karaoke Bar last night that didn't play any 70s music, at first I was afriad, oh I was petrified

Play slow and perfect - that’s the way to becoming a virtuoso.

The playoffs are the playoffs. You just play who is put in front of you.

I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.

Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me.

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

Improvisation is really not so much remembering things. And this is what I do when I play. I forget things. When I go on the stage, I want my mind to be a blank, so that I can - things can come into me without my knowing where they came from.

I have friends who are majorly into the cosplay culture and have urged me to go to a convention for no other reason than to meet others like me.

I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish.

Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

What's more important is that the monsters are controllable by the players.Pikachu is like the name of the species. But each player can name their own Pikachu. So kids can relate to it more. They get more attached to them that way.

Id rather be selling groundnuts in my village than play for a pathetic club like Chelsea FC

I have played with some great players during my time at United but I would have to put Paul Scholes down as the best.

Every day I work my guts out in training, every match I play my heart out.

We often say that psi is like musical ability: it is widely distributed in the populate, and everyone has some ability and can participate to some extent - in the same way that the most nonmusical person can learn to play a little Mozart on the piano. On the other hand, there is no substitute for innate talent, and there is no substitute for practice.

I just hope he doesn't frighten the players 'cos they're frigtened enough right now.

The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.

You don't really know a song until you play it live.