Quotes About Play

We play a game called, 'Peru ball,' it's a game we invented in Peru. The rules are so simple. You play with a football and one team's going one direction, the other team's going the other direction. Get the ball across the line, the length of a soccer goal. That's it, that's the only rules.

I'd love to challenge myself and play characters that overcome experiences like homelessness or abuse, because social justice is really important to me.

Everyone knows that at the age of 11-12, children have a marked impulse to form themselves into groups and that the respect paid to the rules and regulations of their play constitutes an important feature of this social life.

Kids who don't play are not just at greater risk of falling behind academically, but also of becoming overweight or obese, failing to integrate socially, and even engaging in criminal activity.

What's great about games in particular is that it's a socially acceptable way for adults to imagine.

I'll definitely play cricket again, but only socially. I've still got a lot of friends at my local team, Green Mount, and I do miss playing, but I don't regret anything.

It's easy enough to foist your music collection on your kids. Lectures are not required; you just play the stuff while they are prisoner in the back seat on a long drive, or softly in the background while eating dinner.

You know, if you play on home soil sometimes funny things can happen and you have that push of the crowd.

Children should be allowed to be children and not be sold.

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.

Gender equality cannot be achieved by cutting programs that allow girls to get the same chance to compete, learn, and play. The United States has had a solid history of commitment to its female athletes and expanding opportunity for women, and it is imperative that we continue on this path.

When you've won a lot of matches you know how to play the important moment - you have a great feeling on court, confidence. You know what you have to do, when to go for the shots or when to play solid. It's really clear in your head, and you trust in your hands.

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

When I was a kid on the playground, fights were about who got to play Han Solo. He's just one of the best characters ever created.

When I was a kid, I used to pretend I was Han Solo all the time. Running around with my fingers pretending they were a blaster.

I think writing a solo play was the most liberating thing I ever did.

My solo stuff for live shows is very meandering. I write a lot of slower bits that give me room to improvise and play with a character.

Because we recorded in the studio, basically live, when we went to rehearse, we kind of already knew how to play the songs. But I also will take liberties with the Dirty Knobs. If I want a solo to go on longer or if I want to throw in a song thats not in the setlist, we can do it.

World Play is very '70s arena rock, very raw and in your face, and that's what we wanted. We recorded it in a very off-the-cuff manner and didn't really plan out how we were going to play. My solos are first takes.

The lack of free, child-directed play time for our kids today will have dire consequences for these future leaders, making them less prepared to solve complex challenges and problems.

Always, when I do a play, there's got to be an equation of risks and potential failure. When you're working on a new play, it's like, 'How the hell do I do this, and do we have the time?' All of these huge questions engage, hopefully, the smartest part of me. And then when you're doing a revival, I went, 'Well, somebody's already solved it.'

Some men play golf. I've got this crazy thing about maintaining our nation's maritime heritage.