Quotes About Play

It's an honour to play with the Italy jersey.

I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as well as write and direct. When I moved to Delhi and joined Hindu College, theatre became a very big part of my life.

I think music and laughter are the two things that can keep you alive. Someone who is really depressed, tell them a joke, and they may come out of it for even just a moment. Or play them something.

My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot has many changes; every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play.

Bring down the curtain, the farce is played out.

Play has been man's most useful preoccupation.

Low gravity Monopoly is better than the Monopoly you play round the kitchen table, in that it only lasts a few minutes.

Our reflections walked through them like ghosts that couldn't play.

My mother used to say, "Fun is fun till someone loses an eye.

The Director's Role: You are the obstetrician. You are not the parent of this child we call the play. You are present at its birth for clinical reasons, like a doctor or midwife. Your job most of the time is simply to do no harm. When something does go wrong, however, your awareness that something is awry--and your clinical intervention to correct it--can determine whether the child will thrive or suffer, live or die.

The stars blink like a hairnet that was dropped / on a seat and now it is lying in the alley behind / the theatre where my play is echoed by dying voices.

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.

The subject of gambling is all encompassing. It combines man's natural play instinct with his desire to know about his fate and his future.

When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in the creative spirit. It's the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

It's very important, no matter what you may do professionally, to keep alive some of the healthy interests of your youth. Children's play is not just kids' stuff. Children's play is rather the stuff of most future inventions.

Pretending doesn't require expensive toys.

Play is really the work of childhood. One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness. When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.

Tell Youth to play with Wine and Love and never bear away the scars! I may as well tilt up the sky and yet try not to spill the stars.

Much of what I have learned, as well as much of my intellectual enjoyment, has come through problem solving. Through the years, I've found it more and more difficult to tell when I was working and when playing, for it has so often turned out that what I have learned playing with problems has been useful in my serious work.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.