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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair
I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.
I'm very grateful to be where I'm at and be able to play. That's really the bottom line for me. Survival and being able to play.
And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame
The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.
The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.
In film roles, I play a lot of heavies and a lot of bad guys, so I tend to be the jokester and the good-time Charlie on the set.
I've almost lost several times but come through that. Being able to play your way through the tournament is really able to help.
Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.
I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.
My instrument is the studio. When I play my instrument, I'm creating music using the studio. All the other instruments serve it.
I think we are in a time where the youth play such a huge role. It's up to us to go the extra mile to vote and raise our voices.
[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.
I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
Whenever we play a really good game, everybody's going to be a hero, and the good part about it is nobody's trying to be a hero.
Sometimes I feel like nothin,' somethin' throwed away, Somethin' throwed away. And then I get my guitar, play the blues all day.
I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life.
Russia can play an important role in removing the occupation, ending the aggression and achieving national (Palestinian) rights.
You don't know who you messing with man, I slap people for fun. That's what I do man! You wanna play rough, huh, I kill for fun!
... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.
In 'Play Misty For Me', its inexplicably assertive knife-woman nearly manages the impossible task of slaughtering Clint Eastwood.
You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.
So scared of getting older I'm only good at being young So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.
You just try to take it one day at a time, ... You step on the basketball floor and just play. It's fun. I'm comfortable with it.
I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors.
The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'
I always wanted to play Lestrade of Scotland Yard 'cause he's a buffoon that gets to wear a uniform. I thought that would be fun.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.
Walk along one day and do nothing wrong, play by the rules, be a good person, do everything right: it doesn't guarantee anything.
When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.
Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.
Is Coors Field a good park to hit in? Yeah. So are Wrigley Field and Camden Yards. I didn't design Coors Field-I just play there.
Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the Sabbath.
The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.
The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approach them, And with them merrily play.
My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.
From 13, I wanted to play drums. I wanted to play with good people and I'm still doing it. I still love it so that's why I do it.
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'
If you're going to play strength, you've got to marry that with a vulnerability and give your character some relatable qualities.
Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant role.
You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.
People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.
The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.