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It's the first time Roger plays at this level against me. – Richard Gasquet	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse''. – Elizabeth Kenny	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Everybody plays electric guitar, thats why I decided to play bass! – Chris Frangou	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes. – Barbara Ehrenreich	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate. – Vince Lombardi	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Maybe I couldn't make it. Maybe I don't have a pretty smile, good teeth, nice tits, long legs, a cheeky ass, a sexy voice. Maybe I don't know how to handle men and increase my market value, so that the rewards due to the feminine will accrue to me. Then again, maybe I'm sick of the masquerade. I'm sick of pretending eternal youth. I'm sick of belying my own intelligence, my own will, my own sex. I'm sick of peering at the world through false eyelashes, so everything I see is mixed with a shadow of bought hairs; I'm sick of weighting my head with a dead mane, unable to move my neck freely, terrified of rain, of wind, of dancing too vigorously in case I sweat into my lacquered curls. I'm sick of the Powder Room. I'm sick of pretending that some fatuous male's self-important pronouncements are the objects of my undivided attention, I'm sick of going to films and plays when someone else wants to, and sick of having no opinions of my own about either. I'm sick of being a transvestite. I refuse to be a female impersonator. I am a woman, not a castrate. – Germaine Greer	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays. – Omar Khayyám	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is not a test that finds a bug but it is a human that finds a bug and a test plays a role in helping the human find it. – Pradeep Soundararajan	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn't come up to scratch. They never realize that they can see only what their paradigm tells them to look for. If you judge a person only by how well he plays pool, Mozart won't pass scrutiny, but the fault is in your lens. – Deepak Chopra	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Mother role is the mother of roles a woman plays... – Sunil Joyia	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Man is an actor who plays various parts: First comes a boy, then out a lover starts; His garb is changed for, lo! a beggar?s rags; Then he?s a merchant with full money-bags; Anon, an aged sire, wrinkled and lean; At last Death drops the curtain on the scene.* – Bhartrihari	added by anonymous 12 years ago
There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. – J. S . Bach	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. – Alfred North Whitehead	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden. – Buddha	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . . – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Every man plays the fool once in his lif marry is playing the fool all one's life, but to marry is to playing the fool all one's life long. – William Congreve	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. – Elizabeth Ashley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion. – Daisy Bates	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars. – Alan Chadwick	added by anonymous 14 years ago
God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them. – Stephen William Hawking	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. – Carl Gustav Jung	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful. – Dame Rose Macaulay	added by anonymous 14 years ago

It's the first time Roger plays at this level against me.

– Richard Gasquet

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse''.

– Elizabeth Kenny

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Everybody plays electric guitar, thats why I decided to play bass!

– Chris Frangou

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.

– Barbara Ehrenreich

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

– Vince Lombardi

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Maybe I couldn't make it. Maybe I don't have a pretty smile, good teeth, nice tits, long legs, a cheeky ass, a sexy voice. Maybe I don't know how to handle men and increase my market value, so that the rewards due to the feminine will accrue to me. Then again, maybe I'm sick of the masquerade. I'm sick of pretending eternal youth. I'm sick of belying my own intelligence, my own will, my own sex. I'm sick of peering at the world through false eyelashes, so everything I see is mixed with a shadow of bought hairs; I'm sick of weighting my head with a dead mane, unable to move my neck freely, terrified of rain, of wind, of dancing too vigorously in case I sweat into my lacquered curls. I'm sick of the Powder Room. I'm sick of pretending that some fatuous male's self-important pronouncements are the objects of my undivided attention, I'm sick of going to films and plays when someone else wants to, and sick of having no opinions of my own about either. I'm sick of being a transvestite. I refuse to be a female impersonator. I am a woman, not a castrate.

– Germaine Greer

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

– Omar Khayyám

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is not a test that finds a bug but it is a human that finds a bug and a test plays a role in helping the human find it.

– Pradeep Soundararajan

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn't come up to scratch. They never realize that they can see only what their paradigm tells them to look for. If you judge a person only by how well he plays pool, Mozart won't pass scrutiny, but the fault is in your lens.

– Deepak Chopra

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Mother role is the mother of roles a woman plays...

– Sunil Joyia

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Man is an actor who plays various parts: First comes a boy, then out a lover starts; His garb is changed for, lo! a beggar?s rags; Then he?s a merchant with full money-bags; Anon, an aged sire, wrinkled and lean; At last Death drops the curtain on the scene.*

– Bhartrihari

added by anonymous
12 years ago

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

– J. S . Bach

added by anonymous
13 years ago

There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

– Alfred North Whitehead

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

– Buddha

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .

– Ralph Waldo Emerson