Merely Players Quotes

#1. If all the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players, where do all the audiences come from?

Denis Norden

#2. All the world is a stage and we are merely players.

William Shakespeare

#3. All the world's indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another's audience outside the gilded cage

Neil Peart

#4. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

William Shakespeare

#5. We all have problems ... everyone does.
The only people that don't have any are buried in cemeteries. Rise above your problems and enjoy your life. Change the way you think and you will.

Timothy Pina

#6. For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

Fanny Burney

#7. Instead of asking, "What can I do to make these students perform?" the great teacher says, "Something's not working! I must not be truly inspirational. What do I need to do to spark their passion to do the hard work to get a superb education?"

Oliver DeMille

#8. The statistics were not merely inadequate; they lied. And the lies they told led the people who ran major league baseball teams to misjudge their players, and mismanage their games.

Michael Lewis

#9. Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want to go back there.

Robert Reed

#10. However, more important to all of that: the players played the game as a true team. There are many teams in baseball, but not all play as a team. Many merely play as a group of talented athletes, which is a huge difference over the course of a long season.

Michael Delaware

#11. The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.

John Simon

#12. The realization that you're not always standing down there on the field merely to win, to be successful, was very liberating. One can be successful by helping the team, the other players. All of a sudden I felt the kind of empathy for people that I hadn't felt before.

Oliver Kahn

#13. I don't like streaming. I hate all that crap. I'd rather be a fan and have the piece in front of you where you could read the liner notes and everything about it instead of just consume. Enjoy it that way. It's just a digital file.

Charlie Benante

#14. when it comes to the caprices and manipulations of the gods or God, whichever philosophy you may embrace, we are all of us merely pawns in their games, rather than players.

Peter David

#15. Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough.

Tom Berenger

#17. USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.

Ambrose Bierce

#18. New York City has 2 million rats. We used to have 8 million rats. Now we're down to 2 million. You know what that means? We lose four electoral votes.

David Letterman

#19. All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.

Beth Nielsen Chapman

#20. The red mammoth in the cave at Pindal is very special because its heart, also red, is depicted inside its chest.

Juan Luis Arsuaga

#21. Yep, we both put the "fun" in dysfunctional when it came to romance.

Chanel Cleeton