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Quotes About Play

There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.
~ James May
The same inexpressible Truth is experienced in two ways: as Self-luminous Silence, or as the Eternal Play of the One.
~ Anandamayi Ma
Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.
~ Sheri S. Tepper
Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
~ Sherman Alexie
From watching children play with objects designed as "amusements," we come to a new place, a place of cold comforts. Child and adult, we imagine made to measure companions. Or, at least we imagine companions who are always interested in us.
~ Sherry Turkle
Human interaction, the play of emotions I could see over a person's face, had always intrigued me. Emotions, and my lack of ability to fully understand them, were so intriguing. But her face, serene and remote even as she faced a man who would likely inspire rage in others, never changed.
~ Shiloh Walker
I played with children so that I could learn from them.
~ Shinichi Suzuki
I try to exercise in nature, and I try to play golf once a month. The last time I played golf with my wife, however, she got better scores than me, which became an additional source of stress.
~ Shinzo Abe
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
~ Shirley MacLaine
The creative writer acts no differently from the child at play: he creates a fantasy world, which he takes very seriously; that is to say, he invests large amounts of emotion in it, while marking it off sharply from reality.
~ Sigmund Freud
Los barriletes son juegos de varones. — Los juguetes no tienen sexo.
~ Silvina Ocampo
Nadie le decía: Toñito, no juegues con la soga.
~ Silvina Ocampo
I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.
~ Simon Gray
You are young men and not children. The idea is that art allows the child imprisoned inside the adult to come out to play and celebrate the world and its beauty." He said that art was intimately linked with immortality: a challenge to death and time, a celebration of life.
~ Sinan Antoon
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
~ Sir Arthur Eddington
Life is a movie, let love play its role.
~ Lil Wayne
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly. Play as often as you can Work as smart as you are able. Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
~ George Eliot
Animals are a continuous source of inspiration and wonder to me. I would love to play a dog.
~ James Ransone
Little girls love dolls. They just don't love doll clothes. We've got four thousand dolls and ain't one of them got a stitch of clothes on.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it is a process of playing.
~ Anson Mount
On a more human level, the closest things to truths that I have been able to access are Love, Art, and Play.
~ Brandon Boyd
I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.
~ Kevin Spacey
I'm pretty quiet. But I love to play sports. I like playing all sports. I'll act goofy at times around my wife and my son, around my own family. I like to have fun in general.
~ Steve Blake