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A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
Thomas Jefferson
Nature
,
Strong
,
Character
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age
,
Best
,
Woman
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
Winston Churchill
War
,
Smile
,
Game
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Oscar Wilde
Sister
,
Expression
,
Annoying
I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.
Michael Jordan
Best
,
Loved
,
Guy
Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
Nelson Mandela
Freedom
,
Fight
,
Role
There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.
Charlie Sheen
Play
,
Dark
,
After
When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.
Jimi Hendrix
God
,
Together
,
Try
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham
Love
,
Dirty
,
Achieve
When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.
Rodney Dangerfield
Kept
,
Cat
,
Covering
I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.
Kobe Bryant
Before
,
After
,
Place
When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
Woody Allen
Guilty
,
Second
,
Steal
I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.
Sachin Tendulkar
Life
,
Hard
,
Hit
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
Wanted
,
Minds
,
Fat
They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
Kanye West
God
,
Sex
,
Jesus
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard
Game
,
Football
,
Basketball
Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played with.
Chuck Norris
Living
,
Document
I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.
Henny Youngman
Great
,
Him
,
Horse
Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
Bobby Orr
God
,
Sports
,
School
And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.
Jose Mourinho
Love
,
Game
,
Football
Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Again
,
Speech
,
Notes
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
Frederic Chopin
Art
,
After
,
Simplicity
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
Eric Hoffer
Best
,
History
,
Game
Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.
Knute Rockne
Game
,
Football
,
Legs
It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.
Richard M. Nixon
Game
,
Find
,
Until
Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.
Steve Martin
Life
,
Experience
,
Alone
I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
Richard M. Nixon
Politics
,
Found
,
Rules
I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and princesses, and we played together, as if we had known each other for years.
Max Muller
Children
,
Together
,
Young
George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
Paul McCartney
Money
,
Anger
,
Happen
I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.
Henny Youngman
Time
,
Tough
,
Afraid
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