Quotes About Play

In the darkness of night when universe sleepsYou come and play with my stringsNo one can see or feel it but I doYou are my love.

This life is like a game, so you better play it right!

If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with them?

Whoever wants to understand much must play much.

Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.

Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure.

Take time to play! Ask for what you want. Laugh. Live loudly. Be avid. Learn a new thing. Be Yourself!

Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it.

Dedicated to all the children and not-so children that live and play in the shadow of the Space Needle that stands in the heart of Seattle, Washington. It is where my heart will always be. Most special of all, this book is dedicated to my granddaughter Lauren. May she live in the shadow of the Space Needle forever and a day. -Stephen/Dad

Consider Norbert Mayer's poem Just now A rock took fright When it saw me It escaped By playing dead

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

On the other hand, a basic play, in perfect order, can be achieved by, say, whistling fidgetingly while playing yourself. And I once converted two down into two up when playing golf against P. Beard, known also as the leader of an orchestra, by constantly whistling a phrase from the Dorabella Variation with one note – always the same note – wrong.

If you play and work hard then rest hard.

A matinee, a Pinter play, Perhaps a piece of Mahler's.

The play was made quite famous by a headline misprint in Variety reading OBSCENE PLAY ATTRACTS MASSIVE CROW.

a clutter of toys and materials actually makes for less play - it's all too much choice. If

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.

We develop more emotional maturity if we play more. We develop better decision-making ability if we play more.

Poker is to cards and games what jazz is to music. It's this great American thing, born and bred here. We dig it because everybody can play.

I have often thought that my instincts were the fools that allowed me to survive so that my "higher functions" could continue. Now I am finding that it is more the other way around. It is my ability to reason that keeps command and allows me to survive, and the things I am surviving for are those that I want by instinct: life, companionship, comfort, play.

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

Almost any football play, even an off-tackle slant by a running back, offers the balletic beauty of athletic skill and the punishing drama of physical collision.