Quotes About Play

If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.

As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.

we sometimes forget the influence of action upon thought. ... Smile, whistle, sing, play the part you want to be until you become the part you play.

The fans motivated me. They gave me the incentive to want to play and to want to win and to continue to play as my career progressed. They were never a distraction.

I love sport, so I'd love to do more stories if I can that deal with sport maybe. Other characters, actually the real guy is so interesting why would you want to get anyone to play them?

After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.

When you're a little kid, you want the ball. You don't want to play defense. When you get the ball, basically you can do whatever you want.

I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.

I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.

There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute.

People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.

These were the mysteries of men, so baffling to women. Where silences could become a conjoining of paths. Where a handful of inconsequential words could bind spirits in an ineffable understanding. Forces at play that she could sense, indeed witness, yet ever remaining outside them. Baffled and frustrated and half disbelieving.

Then the Jaghut said, 'Hanako, I am named Raest.' 'Then welcome, Raest, to our fire.' 'Voice a single jibe, Hanako, and I might have to chop off your head. Just so you understand how this night will play.

If we are hunting the highest version of ourselves, then we need to turn work into play and not the other way round. Unless we invert this equation, much of our capacity for intrinsic motivation starts to shut down. We lose touch with our passion and become less than what we could be and that feeling never really goes away.

When I was a kid we had a quicksand box. I was an only child, eventually.

When I was a kid we had a sandbox. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child...eventually.

And I remember as a second or third grader having some autonomy to go to the store if I felt like it, walk home, take my time, kick the can. We were on our own schedule after school, so that was cool.

We are part of the sea, aren't we? How long have we lived here, breathed in its scent, eaten the produce soaked in its salt? Think how we used to play in it as children.

Here the play of light from high roof-windows on fountains and pools created a moving fresco on the patterned walls. Where the columns thinned in number, a great plaza was revealed: the place where Roirbak worked and played. The austere shapes and superimposed perspectives of this ostentatious indulgence produced effects that made Tammuz feel as if he were trapped in some Cubist virtual reality.

In any case, a world without toys would be a terribly dull place.

He has an important part of play, and I can't help feeling he is somewhat of a weak link. He is no Daniel Cranton, who's the Shining One's vizier, but I'm afraid he's going to have to assume some of that persona!

Everyone in the world has a part to play in the great drama of life.

The twins exchanged a secret glance, but it did not altogether exclude him. They were willing to play, he felt. He experienced a delirious sense of weakness, as if the performance was not his, but theirs. It was a strange and unfamiliar sensation, but not unpleasant.

This was what he enjoyed most; a game of words.