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Quotes About Play

It is the credit of human nature that, except in the case where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
She smiles at them as they go by and continues to play, making it clear that this furnace of a place, full of planes that cannot fly, is more than it seems. It is a womb of redemption for every Unwind, and fora ll those who fought the Heartland War and lost - which was everybody.
~ Neal Shusterman
Now he's far away, floating in the clouds, playing Scrabble with the Dalai Lama, but wouldn't you know it, all the tiles are in Tibetan.
~ Neal Shusterman
Hace tiempo descubrí que, si construyes un arenero alrededor de un niño dominante y permites que ese niño lo presida, los adultos pueden dedicarse al trabajo de verdad.
~ Neal Shusterman
We must be patient with the gods they like to have fun they like to play with us. they like to test us. they like to tell us that we are weak and stupid, that we are finished. the gods need to be amused. we are their toys.
~ Charles Bukowski
when we were kids there was a strange house all the shades were always drawn and we never heard voices in there and the yard was full of bamboo and we liked to play in the bamboo pretend we were Tarzan (although
~ Charles Bukowski
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
the shadow puppet play of televisual hallucinations.
~ Charles Stross
The next morning, I play the recording for Ocky. It is regular Friends. Monica makes a pie.
~ Charlie Kaufman
I loved being in my sister's room. I really admired her and wore her clothes to play in, played with her dolls, played with her makeup. She had a mirror with settings to see what you would look like in different lighting. I thought that was amazing.
~ Chelsea Manning
I always often say, when I was a kid, I wasn't just playing with baby dolls. I was standing in the mirror with brush in my hand as a microphone singing songs.
~ Renee Elise Goldsberry
I haven't done much rereading or rewatching stuff I've written over the years, but I did look at 'Misery' before I started the play. I liked it. Not much I would change.
~ William Goldman
Cool under pressure can be misinterpreted. I'm fired up, but in my mind, I'm calm. Here comes the next play, hurry up, let's go.
~ Philip Rivers
I still do miss the freedom to play any kind of character I wanted to play.
~ Dave Foley
To me, if you see a play that's just a bad play, it's just a missed call, I think, as a coach, you should be able to challenge that.
~ Bill Belichick
I love games. My favorite thing on this planet to do is to play games. And if you don't enjoy games, then you're really missing the point of what this life is.
~ RuPaul
Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
~ Zoe Saldana
Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.
~ Alan Cumming
I loved playing with the mix of fantastical inventions and real ones. I hope kids will start logbooks to record their own creations.
~ Marissa Moss
Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.
~ Lynda Barry
I've had opportunities to go out and play, but sometimes I haven't. It's been a mixture of both.
~ Jimmer Fredette
In 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was just playing and having a good time.
~ Mary Badham
I think when you're starting you have more of a luxury. You know you're going to play 33, 35, 37 minutes per game, so you can kind of feel the game out. When you come off the bench you have to be more in attack mode. You have to make something happen immediately.
~ Jamal Crawford
As a kid I always had Lego and Mecchano, model sets.
~ Ant Anstead