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Quotes About Play

But there was another thing Momo couldn't quite understand - a thing that hadn't happened until very recently. More and more often these days, children turned up with all kinds of toys you couldn't really play with: remote-controlled tanks that trundled to and fro but did little else, or space rockets that whizzed around on strings but go nowhere, or model robots that waddled along with eyes flashing and heads swiveling but that was all.
~ Michael Ende
Bunlar elbette, Momo'nun arkadaÅŸlar?n?n, hele kendisinin hiç sahip olmad??? çok pahal? oyuncaklard?. En küçük ayr?nt?lar?na kadar öyle ince düÅŸünülerek yap?lm??lard? ki çocuklar?n hayal kurmalar?n? gerektiren bir yanlar? kalmam??t?.
~ Michael Ende
I really do believe the final act in play is a crisis in our financial institutions, which are doing such dumb, dumb things
~ Michael Lewis
The quarterback of the Washington Redskins, Joe Theismann, turns and hands the ball to running back John Riggins. He watches Riggins run two steps forward, turn, and flip the ball back to him. It's what most people know as a "flea-flicker," but the Redskins call it a "throw back special." Two Mississippi: Theismann searches for a receiver but instead sees Harry Carson coming
~ Michael Lewis
to Clark's way of thinking, the big distinction wasn't between "work" and "play" but between "creating new technology for money" and "creating new technology for pleasure.
~ Michael Lewis
of our jobs are bad jobs, but they're the kind held by people in the background. People who are getting by. People who don't play pool that well.
~ Michael Marshall Smith
I think of childhood as the R&D stage of the species, concerned exclusively with learning and exploring. We adults are production and marketing.
~ Michael Pollan
I need boundaries. In the modern studio there are a bunch of instruments around me, and I can simulate anything I can't play, so sometimes the palette feels too big.
~ Trent Reznor
Albert Brooks. Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Larry David. The best comedic actors play broad and real simultaneously, coming across as both larger than life and all too human.
~ Nell Scovell
I have been playing games since I was about 6, and they've always been a big hobby of mine.
~ Rhianna Pratchett
My sincere effort always will be to lift the reputation of the Indian team and my country whenever I play for India.
~ Ravindra Jadeja
My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.
~ Micky Dolenz
I'm blessed; I'm fortunate to be able to play the game that I love every single day.
~ Jimmy Butler
We played out on the street every single day as a family, with neighbours, at the community centres, and I developed the desire to win very early. That environment instilled a competitive edge in me, which has paid dividends in my life.
~ Nikita Parris
I feel like part of the reason I play basketball so much is it just feels good. In the summer I play every single day.
~ Jamal Crawford
I'm just grateful I get to play football every single day of my life. So I'm never really in a bad mood.
~ George Kittle
One of my best memories is with a really good group of people in the Canberra Youth Theatre. We did a play about the seven deadly sins, and we had to dress up in costume and perform in Garema Place like the drama freaks we were. Great fun.
~ Samara Weaving
My sister would write plays, and I would act in them and perform them for my parents. They were on the comedy side, very much inspired by 'The Amanda Show.'
~ Camila Mendes
When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls - I'd be the crazy diva Barbie and she'd be the homeless Barbie.
~ Jordana Brewster
I used to make clothes for my sister's dolls. I couldn't care less for the dolls, but I could make the clothes really easily.
~ Philip Treacy
My poor sister was forced to be in the plays that I would write. We would go to my grandma's retirement building and perform 'Phantom of the Opera.'
~ Lindy Booth
Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself.
~ Ricky Williams
Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear.
~ Ellen Datlow
I was actually born in L.A. My sisters and I were playing in a parking lot, and my dad was like, 'Nah, nah, nah. Let's go give 'em some grass.'
~ Rachel Keller