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Quotes About Play

Every great legend is at its heart a tale of innocence lost, and perhaps that was the role I was destined to play.
~ Elizabeth Blackwell
Mordecai allowed a smile to play across his face. "I have little doubt this ploy will try your patience. You must present Sir Percival as a gallant knight well-versed in chivalry and a favored champion in the tourneys. Perhaps a bit of poetry would be in order as well." Dante rolled his eyes and sighed. "I shall be the very picture of chivalrous drivel.
~ Elizabeth Elliott
on the tiny counter. "Playing? If that's what you
~ Elizabeth Lowell
It was nothing. We played tic-tac-toe for a while. You know we do that sometimes." "Oh, I know," Teagan says. "Okay, how did you make that sound like we were rolling around ripping off each other's clothes?
~ Elizabeth Scott
With a touch I can bring them into play, with a touch, I say, I can set free the current, with a touch I can complete the communication between this world of sense and—we shall be able to finish the sentence later on. Yes, the knife is necessary; but think what that knife will effect. It will level utterly the solid wall of sense, and probably, for the first time since man was made, a spirit will gaze on a spirit-world. Clarke, Mary will see the god Pan!
~ Arthur Machen
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
La vie est la farce à mener par tous.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Ghosts!—They exist, they exist! Dead things playing at being alive.
~ Arthur Schnitzler
Davvero, Else, non vuoi più giocare?». - «No, Paul, non me la sento più. Ciao.
~ Arthur Schnitzler
Poor little corpses! It was too bad they were dead. He couldn't play with them. Even though they really stank. He couldn't stand the smell. They deserved to die for smelling so bad.
~ Arturo Arias
You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.
~ Aryn Kyle
My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.
~ Ashley Tisdale
que as crianças mais precisam não é de roupa de grife, grandes presentes, Internet, mas de alegria, simplicidade, brincadeiras ao ar livre e do carinho e dedicação dos pais. Os pais que dão o mundo para elas, mas não dão a si mesmos e não as ensinam a pensar, geram crianças frágeis, dependentes e despreparadas para enfrentar os desafios dos labirintos.
~ Augusto Cury
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
~ B.B. King
I was fascinated by all of it. The sounds of the theater and the audience, their rapture when a play took over and moved them and held them quietly... When the audience was truly moved, it was absolutely quiet. They were in a communion because they were learning the truth about themselves.
~ George Stevens
It's a rare treat to be able to play in front of friends and family.
~ Becky Sauerbrunn
A Champions League final is so rare to play.
~ Toby Alderweireld
It's very rare that you get a chance to play in a Test and that's what makes it so special and prestigious.
~ Eoin Morgan
An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.
~ Cynthia Ozick
I am a board game enthusiast, a board game evangelist, a board game nerd, but I wouldn't say I'm 'keen' because I very rarely win, and 'keen' suggests you're actually good at something. But I do play a lot of them, and I have a pretty good-sized collection.
~ Rich Sommer
I still like to play the guitar, but I rarely have anything to do with the music business these days. I mean, there is no music business anymore, is there?
~ Steve Jones
Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.
~ Denis Leary
I enjoyed needling the press. If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't have done it. Writers have rarely played, so as a coach, you have antagonistic feelings about some guy writing up the story of the game who's never even attempted to play it.
~ Bobby Knight