Quotes About Play

gamers in the house forever

The sea: God's bathtub, God's bath toys.

My goal is to allow readers their own experience of whatever discovery I have made, so that it feels new to them, but also familiar, in that it is a piece with their own experience. It is a form of serious play.

The task, and the joy, of writing for me is that I can play with the metaphors that God has placed in the world and present them to others in a way they will accept. My goal is to allow readers their own experience of whatever discovery I have made, so that it feels new to them, but also familiar, in that it is of a piece with their own experience. It is a form of serious play.

The public debate over cosmetics today veers noisily between the poles of victimization and self-invention, between the prison of beauty and the play of makeup.

In this sense, a game's goal is the death of play, the mark of the end, foretelling the moment the magic circle will disappear.

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.

The rules are simple!

All the world's a stage, Timmy Quinn, but it's not the only one…" The Turtle Boy (The Timmy Quinn Series (Book One)

A strange One-Act play in the theater of dreams.

Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.

I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports.

You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness.

Growing up in my neighborhood, kids had to act tough playing ball on the streets or parks. If you showed any fear, then you were usually beat down. But if you showed them you weren't scared, they might just leave you alone.

You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.

El juego es absolutamente fundamental para el aprendizaje: es el fruto natural de la curiosidad y de la imaginación.

Encontrar el medio que estimula tu imaginación, con el que te encanta jugar y trabajar, es un paso importante para liberar tu energía creativa.

As a precocious youngster I had always been good at logical manipulations and puzzle-solving IQ tests. So if economics was made for me, it can be said that I too was made for economics. Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play. This turns possible underachievers into happy warriors.

Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play. This turns possible underachievers into happy warriors.

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Literature is a toy for adults; my books are toys for adults who have read Lautréamont.

When the children on a holiday have already finished playing all the games before noon and now impatiently say, "is there no one who can think of a new game?," does this show then that these children are more developed and precocious than the children in the same or a previous generation who could make the familiar games last for the whole day? Or does it not rather show that these first children lack what I would call the endearing earnestness that belongs to play?

What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.