Quotes About Play

Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and...Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Hannah had no ear for music, she thought, pulling out one of the combs. Of course, no one liked that jazz music, but Hannah ought to know enough to get some good orchestra. Jazz was terrible. Even a radio play was better than that awful boom-boom.

We are special people, if only by power. But if I tried to keep that knowledge forward in my mind, I'd be paralyzed. Here I am, at this moment, in this situation, with all this to do. What I've learned, Ruby, is how I can play. Whatever I do—I, the person I am and have been made—I have to do it that way to win.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

Don't corral me, and I'll always come home. Just let me go out and play during the day.

Remember that it is good for children to be bored sometimes. Children who are not continually provided with stimuli develop more active imaginations, a stronger sense of self-sufficiency and, probably, higher self-esteem.

I stared back, wishing I could download my memory onto a DVD and play it for Officer Quinlan. But I couldn't. All I could do was watch and hope my sister didn't end up like me.

The world was much more fun when they were playing the game.

Sound is a very unruly thing, and you have to really respect that it's going to differ every time you play.

I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly.

Because there wasn't enough time to play 54

Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.

I've been very lucky to have had the opportunity to play a diverse cast of characters in the short time I've been a voice actor.

Take some time to play around with segmentation. If you can pinpoint your best and worst customers it's well worth the time.

Idle time is the devil's play.

Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.

I'd distract myself until finally it was a combination of things. The show was over and I had time on my hands. I had taken time and played and just relaxed.

It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.

Tim Tebow's like the snake doctor for Florida. Gotta stop the snake doctor, keep the Gators from moving the ball....this time he snaked Alabama with a play action pass.

At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time, Before we make music, music makes us.

Prior to being mugged I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time.

Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.

When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.