Quotes About Play

Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.

My intent for the Angels is we're going to play extremely well.

Kids today are so intelligent and computer savvy, so pairing an interactive computer world with something cuddly seems like a natural fit.

I'm fortunate to have got the opportunity to play interesting characters.

I did a play back in 2005 called 'The Pillowman,' which Martin McDonagh directed, in which, at the very end of the run, I caught a case of shingles. I had something burst on my forehead, so I actually have a mark on my forehead from that experience. But it's also an internal mark as well.

The cool thing about doing a play is that the final interpretation of a piece is turned over to the actors.

Pippa was too unpredictable and wild to play away with.

Children give us the golden opportunity not only to reinvent our forgotten childhood, but also to play all the exciting great games, even the ones we missed before!

Los hombres, de pequeños, jugaban a la guerra y se batían con armas de juguete. De grandes, seguían jugando a la guerra con armas verdaderas. El mundo estaba gobernado por niños que se creían adultos.

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.

To be in "play" in this way is one of our concerns to be able to escape self-conscious, intentional activity for comfortable, often purposeless activity.

The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

Please, let them be little, 'Cause they're only that way for a while. Give them hope, give them praise, Give them love every day. Let 'em cry, let 'em giggle, Let 'em sleep in the middle, Oh, but let them be little.

Sin then is not a toy with which to play but a terror to be shunned.

It's every little girl's dream to have an exact look-alike doll. It's amazing.

You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.

On the unbreathing sides of hills they play, a specklike girl and boy, alone, but near a specklike house. The sun's suspended eye blinks casually, and then they wade gigantic waves of light and shade. A dancing yellow spot, a pup, attends them.

Now I take care of animals. I go to their homes while their owners are away and feed them and groom them and play with them. They don't ask a lot of questions or expect much from me, and I don't have to interact with people any more than I choose to. At least most of the time.

La vie deviendra un jeu, ou plutôt une variété de jeux, et non plus un jeu sans enjeu.

Playing and giving are closely related, they are the behavioral and transactional facets of the same impulse, the play-instinct. They share an aristocratic disdain for results.

Le jeu et le don sont étroitement liés. Ils participent, mentalement et socialement, de la même impulsion individuelle et générique : l'instinct ludique. Le jeu et le don partagent le même hautain dédain pour le résultat.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.