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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
Rafael Nadal
Am
Back
Because
Come
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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
Rafael Nadal
About
Always
Am
Anxious
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I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
Leo Buscaglia
About
Against
Down
Enthusiastic
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It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
Leo Buscaglia
Between
Connection
Differentiate
Educators
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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
T. S. Eliot
Blood
Gets
Least
Producers
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
T. S. Eliot
About
First
First Time
Give
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I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.
Temple Grandin
All Day
Aunt
Day
Games
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The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play.
Temple Grandin
About
Always
Autistic
Because
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
Ted Nugent
Any
Detroit
Does
Energy
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I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.
Ted Nugent
Am
Blow
Buffalo
Clean
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I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.
T. D. Jakes
Actually
Church
Deeply
Grew
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Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
Bill Gates
Research
Big
Component
Crucial
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I feel for the players.
Vanna White
Feel
For
Players
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I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
Victoria Beckham
Around
Children
Does
Easter
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
Tennessee Williams
Always
Character
Deal
Even
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Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.
Rachel Hunter
Am
Dogs
Girl
Her
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
Umberto Eco
Being
Capacity
Consumed
Continuing
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Samuel Butler
Goes
Instrument
Learning
Life
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
Umberto Eco
Black
Black And White
Channel
Could
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
Vanessa Hudgens
Always
I Love
I Think
Idol
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Lagos is a fascinatingly infuriating place that its residents love - and love to hate. Licence plates on cars here proudly display the state motto, 'Centre of Excellence,' in what often seems a sarcastic swipe at the place we live in.
Uzodinma Iweala
Car
Centre
Display
Excellence
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'Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf.
Uzodinma Iweala
Books
Childhood
Displayed
Few
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I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.
Uzodinma Iweala
Easier
Get
I Love
Language
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
Uzo Aduba
Comedy
Funny
Little
Play
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I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
Uta Hagen
Chekhov
Hardest
I Love
Love
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
Uta Hagen
Brando
Fun
Like
Match
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I'm good at working, but I'm very good at playing.
Salma Hayek
Good
Playing
Very
Working
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My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
Salma Hayek
Comedy
Fools
Girl
Movie
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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
Donald Trump
Big
Except
Excitement
Game
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We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.
Stephen King
Culture
Economics
Interested
Manufacturing
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I tell my boys not to play rough with their younger sister. I try to teach them what I know already: You're never going to win an argument with a girl, so just let her have what she wants!
Steve Harvey
Argument
Boy
Girl
Going
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We all think that this relationship thing is a game out here. All I'm saying to women is, 'Okay. If it's a game, here are the rules that we play by.'
Steve Harvey
Game
Here
Okay
Out
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I did drama at school, as a kid, but I ain't been to, like, acting school or anything. I was in a couple of school plays.
Skepta
Acting
Acting School
Anything
Been
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
Salman Rushdie
Become
Books
Clearly
Concerned
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I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?
Don DeLillo
Beginning
Dimensions
Finishes
Happen
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If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.
Kanye West
If
You
Have
Opportunity
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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
They
Say
Can
Rap
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I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.
Kanye West
Didn't
Want
To
Play
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Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.
Stephen Covey
Children
Educating
Family
Historically
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Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.
Stephen Covey
Activities
Different
Different Kinds
Displaying
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The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see.
Venus Williams
Able
About
Ball
Being
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Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
Venus Williams
Best
End
Focus
Game
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
Venus Williams
Always
Based
Dress
Get
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
Venus Williams
Been
Career
Course
Done
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If I don't wear something I feel confident in, I don't play as well.
Venus Williams
Confident
Feel
I Feel
Play
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Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
Venus Williams
Before
Course
Even
Go
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My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.
Venus Williams
Always
Ever
Goal
Happen
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A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
Venus Williams
Adrenalin
Blocks
Get
Lot
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I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
Sally Field
Because
Cut
Dialogue
Did
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Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it. Thus he undoes the built-in checks and balances by which nature holds the species within bounds.
Rachel Carson
Nature
Passion
Variety
Species
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