Quotes About Play

The ball I threw while playing in the park has not yet reached the ground.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

Honor bright! Fair play is a jewel!

Of course. Silly me. Such a sad, exciting score, which no doubt you can play? So many accomplishments, Mr. Grey." And the greatest one is you, Miss Steele.

I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

While the angels, all pallid and wan,Uprising, unveiling, affirmThat the play is the tragedy, "Man,"And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

On the green they watched their sons Playing till too dark to see, As their fathers watched them once, As my father once watched me

Cricket to us was more than play, It was a worship in the summer sun.

Vendado con un pañuelo rojo y tambaleándose en la claridad, el hombre juega a

Primer acto, un francés tira un balde de yeso al mar. Segundo acto, un francés tira un balde de yeso al mar. Tercer acto, un francés tira un balde de yeso al mar. ¿Cómo se llama la obra? "La marsellesa".

One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principals of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.

Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

When I'm writing a play I hear it like music. I use the same indications that a composer does for duration. There's a difference, I tell my students, between a semi-colon and a period. A difference in duration. And we have all these wonderful things, we use commas and underlining and all the wonderful punctuation things we can use in the same way a composer uses them in music. And we can indicate, as specifically as a composer, the way we want our piece to sound.

I do not invent characters. There they are. That's who they are. That's their nature. They talk and they behave the way they want to behave. I don't have a character behaving one way, then a point comes in the play where the person has to either stay or leave. If I had it plotted that the person leaves, then the person leaves. If that's what the person wants to do. I let the person do what the person wants or has to do at the time of the event.

When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how to say it, that its worth saying, and that maybe someone will come along for the ride.

A play is fiction -- and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.

Still, even without the country or a lake, the summer was a fine thing, particularly when you were at the beginning of it, looking ahead into it. There would be months of beautifully long, empty days, and each other to play with, and the books from the library.

A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play.

Slide, Kelly, Slide

And as the seasons come and go, here's something you might like to know. There are fairies everywhere: under bushes, in the air, playing games just like you play, singing through their busy day. So listen, touch, and look around — in the air and on the ground. And if you watch all nature's things, you might just see a fairy's wing.

Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons.