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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare

Time, Women, Men

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
Albert Einstein

God, Shall, Dice

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde

Music, Good, Bad

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky

Good, Great, Hockey

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth

Success, Greatest, May

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

Black, Win, Player

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking

God, Cannot, Sometimes

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
Steve Jobs

Design, Together, Soul

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 Jung

Mind, Play, Acting

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Place, Seldom, Principal

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Success, Great, Girl

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Bertrand Russell

Family, Father, Small

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.
Megan Fox

Nice, Strange, Guitar

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking

God, Cannot, Sometimes

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Michel de Montaigne

Sports, Children, Serious

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
H. G. Wells

Law, Almost, Golf

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
James Dean

Acting, Anyone, Actor

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
Terry Pratchett

Two, Find, Playing

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.
Charlize Theron

Life, Hair, High

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.
Wole Soyinka

Writing, Enjoy, Company

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
Josh Billings

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
Earl Weaver

Greatest, Game, Baseball

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Friendship, Game, Sweet

I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn.
Tom Stoppard

Waiting, Happen, Play

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
Friedrich Schiller

Deep, Dream, Often

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
Vivien Leigh

Why, Training, Else

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.
Vivien Leigh

Act, Greater, Thinks

But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom.
Buddy Rich

Freedom, Write, Create

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
Lord Chesterfield

Forward, Serious, Sense

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.
Elizabeth Kenny

Training, Nurse, Panic

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