Quotes About Play

Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B?

The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.

Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.

Life is nothing to be very serious about. Life is a ball in your hands to play with. Don't hold on to the ball.

But our sole delight was play; and for this we were punished by those who yet themselves were doing the like. But elder folks' idleness is called "business"; that of boys, being really the same, is punished by those elders; and none commiserates either boys or men.

But if you're serious about the path to enlightenment and lucrative stock options, go quietly with us in the noise and haste as we take a look at our lives and ask the one pertinent question for those who wish to conquer the twenty-first century: "What would Machiavelli do?" Answer? He would play to win.

Have fun, and learn something.

Diletante en el más bello sentido de la palabra, al que en el juego sólo en el juego, el diletto, le causa alegría.

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

Once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived... The amount of points that can be gained (and saved) by correct endgame play is enormous, yet often underestimated.

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

The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.

It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

I wish I could blame my failure on my integrity & refusal to play bullshit games. But the truth is I just play them really badly.

The truth is that if you play on TV there is always a sponsor. There is no way around it. I've already passed on so much money I don't worry about it anymore.

It's a very old word, it means 'to breathe into.' That's how it works: An angel breathes into men and shows us what to play, what to draw. How to find the truth of who we are and why we are here.

Saying that it's all in your mind is a figure of speech. Don't let your mind play with your mental well being

As children play games with imaginary things, initially a seeker indulges in little things. So simple people believe in simple things.

Anyone who has spent time in the company of small children knows that a crushing boredom can unlock great powers of invention.

What I came to dislike about Little League that spring was not the regulation per se, or the fathers--whose consciousness had generally been raised at least a little bit--or the tedium, or the low quality of play, or the pain of watching my son strike out a lot. It was the way I got reminded, every game, that this was the world my children lived in: the world in which the wild watershed of childhood had been brought fully under control of the adult Corps of Engineers.

What was important was how seriously I took to playing the game he had created here.

All the games were selected for them by supervisors and had to have some useful, educational purpose. The children learned these new games but unlearned something else in the process: they forgot to be happy, how to take pleasure in little things and last, but not least, how to dream