Quotes with horse-play

Quotes 461 till 480 of 617.

  • George Bernard Shaw The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
    New Statesman (6 May 1950)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Roger Simon The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
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  • Alexander Woollcott The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.
    Alexander Woollcott
    American critic and commentator (0 - 1943)
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  • Ovid The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • B. D. Wong The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Adam C. Engst The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bob Seger The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Babe Ruth The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Branford Marsalis The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Albert Einstein The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Oscar Wilde The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ben Parr The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Bobby Hull Then to have Brett come along and follow in the footsteps, it's so gratifying. I get as much enjoyment out of watching Brett play as I did of entertaining people myself.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen There ain't a note that I play on stage that can't be traced back directly to my mother and father.
    Bruce Springsteen Talking
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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