Quotes of: Playing-field Keyword

A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix.

A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury

I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in mot...

Leander Paes

It is hard to remain iconoclastic when standing waist-deep in the shards of smashed icons.

A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred

The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become polymaths – meaning they would be geniuses in a wide variety of fields.

The Ninth Orphan

The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.

The World Peace University Field Guide to Connecting With Nature

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

Virat Kohli

And, of course, the fact that Maurice Strong, a Canadian, was in charge made it important for us to pull up our socks and become leaders in this field. Now, here is a field we should be a leader in!

Brian Mulroney

Peeta Mellark: [after almost dying from walking into a force field disguised as a jungle] Be careful, it's a force field up there.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

I found out I had a real love for comedy and comedy writing. The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.

Rita Rudner

[first lines] Terry Fields: Hey, what do you say, Curt? Last night in town... you guys gonna have a little bash before you leave? Steve Bolander: The Moose have been looking for you all day. [hands a check to Curt] Steve Bolander: They got worried......

American Graffiti

If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business.

Charles E. Merrill

The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. Each thing creeps back into its own nature within the shelter of the dark. Darkness is the ancient womb. Nighttime is ...

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

And she felt the beauty in the music now, drank it in with tears streaming down her face. Never had she been so naked in worship before her Creator, allowing the adoration to bleed out her very fingertips onto the strings, playing her heart's cry for...

The Butterfly and the Violin

Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another e...

John Steinbeck

Ray Kinsella: I bet it's good to be playing again, huh? Shoeless Joe Jackson: Getting thrown out of baseball was like having part of me amputated. I've heard that old men wake up and scratch itchy legs that been dust for over fifty years. That was me...

Field of Dreams

[Rudy sneaks into Notre Dame Stadium] Fortune: Hey kid! You're not supposed to be here! Rudy: Hey this place is really somethin else huh? Someday I'm gonna come out of that tunnel and I'm gonna run onto this field Fortune: Well it ain't gonna be this...

Rudy

Form your own autonomous group, answering to no power but your own, and chase down freedom for yourselves, if your representatives will not do if for you- since they cannot do it for you.

Expect Resistance: A Field Manual

A truly radical resolution would be to embrace existence just as it is, as the only thing that matters, to proclaim that the world itself is heaven, made for our total enjoyment and fulfillment...

Expect Resistance: A Field Manual

But fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already a loss.

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss.

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

When skies above were not yet named Nor earth below pronounced by name There was water...

A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels and Other Subversive Spirits