
Top 100 Played Quotes
#1. Children played guessing games, telling each other whether the gun fired was and AK-47, a G3, an RPG, or a machine gun.
Ishmael Beah
#3. I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.
Rahul Dravid
#4. The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin-not sounding like them, but "playing" the voice like those instrumentalists.
Frank Sinatra
#5. Lightning flashed around the island; thunder played its favorite game of scaring the crap out of all the shivering mortals on the earth below.
Pat Conroy
#6. I actually had a nickname as a player myself. When I played high school football in Texas, strong safety, they called me Choo Choo because they said I hit like a train.
Gabriel Luna
#7. Ori Kam is an outstanding violist who has already played as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra twice, much to our delight and satisfaction, and has availed himself with distinction.
Zubin Mehta
#8. Damn it, the tiger played velvet paws with me, didn't he?
Mary Stewart
#9. When we played Paris, the English punks would come over, and they got to know the French punks. There was some nice scenes in the back alleys.
Joe Strummer
#10. I don't think I've ever played a 'hot chick' before. I always play the quirky friend or the really angry girl.
Hilarie Burton
#11. I've been acting since I was six. I actually played a boy when I was six in 'Tommy.' I played Tommy and they put a wig on me. They put up my hair and put this little boy wig on me and that was my first acting experience. Then I did some other professional theater. I did Shakespeare when I was older.
Jojo
#12. One of the reasons I love using LEGO bricks is because it makes the art very relatable and accessible; folks can connect with the art almost on a different level because they have played with it or their kids have played with it.
Nathan Sawaya
#13. I'm very happy to have been a one-club man, but I wouldn't shoot down guys who have gone off and played in multiple clubs either because, essentially, it is an earning that people are after.
Brian O'Driscoll
#14. Then I thought I was going to be a photographer. I tried a hand at darkroom technician. I played in a band. It took me quite some time to discover that I wanted to write.
Guy Johnson
#15. I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket ... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.
Jai Courtney
#16. I'm trying to do the right things, especially on the ice. Even when I talk to the media, I try to not be obnoxious or be rude. I try to approach you with respect. Same thing when I played, especially if you're the captain, you wanna try and set an example.
Nicklas Lidstrom
#17. Probably played a lot of World of Warcraft or whatever it was - and that made him forget that if you were going to be a bigoted big-mouth, you'd better be able to back shit up.
J.R. Ward
#18. I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college, big bands, and I played timpani in the symphony. I am a drummer. It's the one instrument I actually play pretty well. It's just hard to carry on your back.
J. D. Souther
#19. I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's really me.
Herbie Mann
#20. Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.
Jelly Roll Morton
#21. I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.
Caroline Shaw
#22. The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.
David Rockefeller
#23. What an absurd torture for the artist to know that an audience identifies him with a work that, within himself, he has moved beyond and that was merely a game played with something in which he does not believe.
Thomas Mann
#24. When I hear the songs 'Dangerous' or 'End of My World', I go, 'Wow, I didn't even know I could go that low!' And when I played them for my family, they said, 'That doesn't even sound like you.'
Prince Royce
#25. I'm quite excited to not play a Xena type character - it's probably closer to me than any character I've ever played.
Nick Offerman
#26. My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.
Mark Messier
#27. I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.
Lloyd Waner
#28. The difference between now and when I played during my younger days is my drives are shorter and my short game is longer.
Simon Hobday
#29. Bobby would drive to the net injured, he would drive to the net hurt. He played that way every night. He told Bobby that he was the one who made him famous.
Derek Sanderson
#30. Working efficiently while a movie played was second nature to her by now, more comfortable than silence.
John Darnielle
#31. In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.
Pete Sampras
#32. It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.
Barry McGuire
#33. Obama hasn't lost his standing because of tricks played by the Republicans. He hasn't lost his standing because the media's not fair to him. He hasn't lost his standing or his approval number because the media spent four years attacking him like they did George W. Bush. This is all on him.
Rush Limbaugh
#34. Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.
Ric Keller
#35. By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name.
Andy Partridge
#36. I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.
Stan Getz
#37. I really enjoyed playing Freddie Cork. People are always scared to approach me because of the character I played in 'Brotherhood.' The writing was very smart.
Kevin Chapman
#38. I had the opportunity to do a movie with Roger Daltrey of The Who. In the movie, I played a guitar student. Since I had to learn how to play somewhat for the movie, I was introduced to the guitar.
Drake Bell
#39. A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.
B.o.B
#40. Elizabeth was not playing for the sake of exhibiting her virtuosity: she played for joy.
Mary Street
#41. I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself.
Robert Mapplethorpe
#42. I played under many Captains, but Dhoni is the one, who fulfilled my Dream of winning World Cup
Sachin Tendulkar
#43. To play music, you have to understand it. I didn't understand 'Topographic Oceans.' That's why I hardly played on it. It frustrated me no end - and playing the whole thing on tour, I got farther and farther away from it.
Rick Wakeman
#44. We are a global sport. I mean, golf is obviously played all around the world. But when you have your National Championship, of course, everybody in America is rooting for an American.
Paula Creamer
#45. Landry returned to school following the war and played fullback and defensive back for the Longhorn squads that won the 1948 Sugar Bowl and, his senior year, the 1949 Orange Bowl.
Jeff Pearlman
#46. I had the house rhythm section at a club called the Sundown in Hartford. Stan Getz came up and played with us.
Horace Silver
#47. Silence hung between them, and Maddy's heartbeat picked up. She probably should have played it cool, but why bother? She wanted him.
Sara Humphreys
#48. Well, I think I've made 44 films and only like four times I've played real characters I'm just drawn to people who have a pioneer spirit, this extraordinary energy and commitment to their cause.
Liam Neeson
#49. I've never played a character that would sing.
Katey Sagal
#50. A lot of people influenced me as I was learning but probably Bing Crosby was the most influential, because I would hear his Christmas albums, which my parents played a lot.
Gordon Lightfoot
#51. I think LeBron asked out of the game once or twice before that, so we knew he was getting tired but we were all getting tired out there ... I don't think I've played in anything like this since I left the islands.
Tim Duncan
#52. Milk is a really important part of my diet. For London, I had to be in the best shape of my life, and having milk every day played a part in that.
Jade Jones
#53. Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence.
Khaled Hosseini
#54. None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
Paul McCartney
#55. My mom played every sport possible. My dad is 'extremely' competitive. You can't even play Ping-Pong with him.
Kate Upton
#56. As for my looks, if I didn't look the way I do, I would probably be one of those many faces doing a romcom, which I detest. The way I look has somewhere defined the characters I played. My weakness has become my strength.
Emraan Hashmi
#58. Trade has played a vital role in the social evolution of humankind. It allowed people to specialise, which raises both skill levels and efficiency. It brought people from different lands together, co-operating rather than competing over resources.
Julian Baggini
#59. I observed the way Dee and Deron played at the Nike Camp [in Indianapolis]. They share the ball well; I mean, they average about 13 points apiece and they could both score 20
they do what they have to do to help the team.
Nate Robinson
#60. I'm a trumpet player, so I always carry a pocket trumpet in case there's an opportunity to jam with the locals. I was in Guadeloupe last year filming 'Death in Paradise,' and I played all over the island and had the best time.
Colin Salmon
#61. Our losses ... have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.
Karl Donitz
#62. One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player friend of mine, and I sang and played the guitar on it.
Trevor Donovan
#63. I've never really not played the piano. I've played it since I was six or seven and it's something I've always done - I don't think I could ever really play anything else, I would be a bit out of it without a piano.
Tom Odell
#64. One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me.
Lynn Fontanne
#65. We played well all the way until, like, the second quarter.
LeBron James
#66. Shoe Suede Blues opened for the Monkees in the 1997 reunion tour for two shows. I went out in disguise when I played with Shoe Suede Blues.
Peter Tork
#67. I like living at home: I've been making films since I was 12, when I played Sam in 'Love Actually', and if you spend as much time away on set as I have done, you get your independence young, so it's nice to come back home.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
#68. On 'Ant-Man', I took a rubber stamp from the office of Hank Pym, who's played by Michael Douglas.
Evangeline Lilly
#69. I'm going to be one of the top four that's ever played this game, for sure. And if they don't want me to have one of those top four spots, they'd better find another spot on that mountain. Somebody's gotta get bumped, but that's not for me to decide. That's for the architects.
LeBron James
#70. I played golf for 25 years before I made a hole-in-one of any kind. I was on the tour for years before it finally happened. Eventually I made 23, but boy, that first one was a long time coming. It was the price I paid for not shooting at every flag.
Billy Casper
#71. Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.
John Grogan
#72. Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.
Knute Rockne
#73. It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.
George Bernard Shaw
#74. People always say it's a shame someone as talented as Ryan Giggs or George Best before him never played in a World Cup or European Championship and I don't want my name to be added to that list.
Barry Ferguson
#75. There are lots of Joy Division songs that are so powerful when played live, some of which we did either never play or played very rarely.
Peter Hook
#76. Torres was easily the best player I have ever played with in my career. I loved him. And when he approached me and said he wanted out, it was like a knife to the heart.
Steven Gerrard
#77. Traveling Wilburys was always played in my house growing up.
Sara Rue
#78. I tell you these massacres have to come. They have to. There's bad dudes selling the Blood. Can you believe? Selling the Blood. Least they were. I expect they're played out too and running for their lives now like everybody else.
Anne Rice
#79. My sister played the piano. She's two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got the guitar for me, and showed me a couple of chords to start off. And then I got me a book. Next thing you know, I was playing along with sister.
Willie Nelson
#80. Maybe, one other match better; but if you look at the tournament as a whole, I played very high quality tennis for seven matches and raised my game when I needed to.
Richard Krajicek
#81. Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.
Benmont Tench
#82. On the Old Course at St. Andrews: This is the origin of the game, golf in its purest form, and it's still played that way on a course seemingly untouched by time. Every time I play here, it reminds me that this is still a game.
Arnold Palmer
#83. The first time we all played as a band, I think it was in January 1998, in Jonny's bedroom.
Will Champion
#84. I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.
Gary Cherone
#85. I've played hockey most my life and I've never been badly injured ... Three weeks into curling I've got bone chips in both my elbows. I still can't lean on a table. I've even got curling injuries, believe it or not, just from falling on my arse.
James Allodi
#86. [T]he game's got to be played on the field, and that's the one day that's got to be the most important day.
Lisa Fernandez
#87. We ran out of talent tonight. The guys played as hard as they could, as long as we could.
LeBron James
#88. In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.
Archie Shepp
#89. It was funny to me how Murk played with these niggas and gave them hope in their last moments. "Who
Porscha Sterling
#90. Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.
Gemma Ward
#91. I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.
Cam Gigandet
#93. Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
Stephen Leacock
#94. Family and the natural surroundings played a big role in shaping my values.
Gabrielle Reece
#95. I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Josh Gibson.
Monte Irvin
#96. If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.
B.B. King
#98. Why do the gingerbread girls have to wear pink?" Penny asks.
"Why should the gingerbread girls feel like they shouldn't wear pink?" I say. "I like pink."
"Only because you've been conditioned to like it by Barbies and gendered Lego."
"Lay off, Penny. I've never played with Lego.
Rainbow Rowell
#99. A while ago, I did a television adaptation of 'Bleak House,' and the character I played, as far as I was concerned, had no redeeming features whatsoever. I wasn't about to try to find any; I didn't need to.
Charles Dance
#100. I lean forward, pressing my lips to his, and it breaks me open. His hand leaves my face and traces notes up my arms, strikes chords on my throat and up into my hair. His mouth forms lyrics that expose my soul.
The kiss is like a song played only once. And forever.
Katherine Longshore
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