Let's Stop Playing Quotes

#1. Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?

April Winchell

#2. Gross well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have added, men grow old because they stop playing, and not conversely, for play is, at bottom, growth, and at the top of the intellectual scale it is the eternal type of research from sheer love of truth.

G. Stanley Hall

#3. Gender roles suck, says Swift Fox.
Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.

Margaret Atwood

#4. I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop.

Martin Landau

#5. Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

Van Jones

#6. The sexiest advice:
Dear humans, stop role-playing in your lives; these sort of things are meant to be explored only at times you won't mention in public.

Saurabh Sharma

#7. At your next dinner party, try playing the following game. Challenge everyone around the table to produce a single drug that can cure people of an illness, other then antibiotics. If you come up with anything, stop whatever you are doing and call me.

Lynne McTaggart

#8. Quit the bitching on your blog
And stop pretending art is hard.
Just limit yourself to three chords
And do not practice daily.
You'll minimize some stranger's sadness
With a piece of wood and plastic.
Holy fuck it's so fantastic,
Playing ukulele.

Amanda Palmer

#9. Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential.

Bruce Lee

#10. never stop playing

Sarah Winman

#11. I will never again stand on the pitch as a professional player. But I won't stop playing the game.

Hidetoshi Nakata

#12. I've never been able to stop the blockbuster disaster film from playing on an endless loop in my mind.
I see the terrible coming, whether it is or not.

Augusten Burroughs

#13. Gay James: Well, why don't you stop playing games and give us a little of your private self?
Straight James: Kind of impossible, don't you think? As soon as I share it, it becomes public.

James Franco

#14. If you want to play the big league, you have to stop playing the little league.

Timi Nadela

#15. I pray that our leaders stop pointing fingers and playing the blame game and seek a real solution for the good of the planet and all who inhabit it.

Don Cheadle

#16. I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.

Robbie Williams

#17. I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.

Kate Moss

#18. It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get the Indians to stop playing it.

Victor Borge

#19. When authorities learned that Eugene O'Neill's play All God's Chillun proposed to show black and white children playing together as if that were normal, the district attorney for Manhattan sent the police to stop it.

Bill Bryson

#20. I started playing drums at about seven or eight. My mom used to let me play with the pots and pans, and instead of telling me to stop like most moms would, she just let me do it. So the noise kind of turned into music. From that point on, musically, that's what I want to do: start creating beats.

Roshon Fegan

#21. Let's all wise up. Some of us aren't fighting the fire; we're playing with fire. Flirting with the devil. Stop it! Stop it now before all hell literally breaks loose.

Beth Moore

#22. Don't tell him to stop but don't let him play my song too long. There are others he should be playing.

Anyta Sunday

#23. Maybe we need to quit playing defense and start playing offense. Maybe we need to quit letting our circumstances get between us and God and let God get between us and our circumstances. Maybe we need to stop talking to God about our problem and start talking to our problem about God.

Mark Batterson

#24. What we ought not do is play politics with those who've been afflicted by disasters. This should not be controversial. Stop playing politics, do the right thing for the country and let's make sure we're not making politics with disaster relief.

David Plouffe

#25. I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat.

Dave Grohl

#26. I worked hard at that through most of the '80s, and in 1990 my house burned in New Hampshire, and my studios and my offices. I had to decide at what level to rebuild, and I decided that I was going to stop trying to be all things to all people, and just go back to playing the guitar.

Tom Rush

#27. I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash.

Steve Coogan

#28. From the time I started playing, I've always been the high-energy, never-stop-moving guy.

Peja Stojakovic

#29. Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

Sonny Rollins

#30. My strongest hope is for a cameo as a band playing in a club visited by the detectives on 'Law & Order: SVU' during the course of an investigation, maybe during sound check, or something, so they can force us to stop playing while they question the sound guy.

John Darnielle

#31. My blood boils for you. Stop this, at once. I know you are not playing.

Nely Cab

#32. I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and start playing offense. So, together, let us grab the reins of history.

Joe Manchin

#33. Maybe he's right. Maybe I am playing with fire, but I cannot stop myself. Beyond reason, I will push him until he reveals everything.

Lisa Renee Jones

#34. You know, I run the Vegas Deluxe website and that really is 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And we have more stars going through this city with shows. We have more disc jockeys playing in nightclubs here, we have more parties, more of everything than any other city in the world. So it's non-stop.

Robin Leach

#35. Dennis, please. I don't know what-"
"Shut the fuck up, and stop playing me for an idiot. And secondly, and more importantly, I've unearthed some disturbing information about you which I want to discuss in more detail before I fill you with holes.

Simon Kernick

#36. A bad life doesn't justify bad behavior. It's time to stop playing the blame game and take responsibility for your own actions. You have control of your life from here.

Blaque Diamond

#37. I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.

Edgar Wright

#38. She'll never really let me go. She likes the game too much."
"Then stop playing it.

Gillian Flynn

#39. Stop tryin to be loud as me, cause you can't do that,
Think about it ... playing Russian roulette with an automatic!

Fredro Starr

#40. My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.

Lisa Gardner

#41. Losing still hurts, but that's good. When it stops hurting, that's when I stop playing.

Martina Navratilova

#42. The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.

Stephen Covey

#43. In the end, only Leif believed that you were still alive. He thought you might be hiding somewhere, playing a game. As the rest of us grieved, Leif searched the jungle for you day after day."
"When did he finally stop?" I asked.
"Yesterday.

Maria V. Snyder

#44. The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

William Glasser

#45. The day I think about throwing the ball away at the beginning of a play, I should stop playing.

Robert Griffin III

#46. I'm taking probably the biggest risk of my career in playing the part in Filth. If you stop taking risks, then you get bored, or you just keep playing the same part, over and over again. Eventually audiences get bored of that, as well.

James McAvoy