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Quotes About Play

kad bi igra?i ispitivali porijeklo sva?ijeg novca, ne bi se igra mogla nikad ni sastaviti.
~ Ivo Andri?
EVE: I have work to do. ROARKE: I know but it can wait. I have something to show you. EVE: In the bedroom? She looks Roarke up and down. I've seen it. It's nice I might take time to play with it later. ROARKE: You're to good to me.
~ J.D. Robb
Aren't you a little old for toys?" "It's not a toy, it's an adventure
~ J.D. Robb
You've played the games. You're a competitive soul." "What's the point of playing if winning isn't the goal?
~ J.D. Robb
You can't play trade the victim here, Dallas.
~ J.D. Robb
I've got work." "Yes, and I'd be interested in helping with that. But I want to show you something first." "In the bedroom?" Now she narrowed her eyes, gave him an up and down. "I've seen it before. It's nice. I can probably make time to play with it later." "You're too good to me.
~ J.D. Robb
She's saying she doesn't know how to play football! Absolute shock vibrated in his voice. And she's heart-stopping serious!
~ J.D. Robb
For that is surely what a woman wants: to be courted, wooed, persuaded, won! Even when she surrenders, she wants to give herself up not frankly but in a delicious haze of confusion, resisting yet unresisting. Falling, but never an irrevocable falling. No: to fall and then come back from the fall new, remade, virginal, ready to be wooed again and to fall again. A playing with death, a play of resurrection.
~ J.M. Coetzee
All of us are taking the night off, Wrath said abruptly. We need some regroup time. Rhage snorted from across the table. You're not going to make us play Monopoly again, are you? Yup. A collective groan rose up from the Brotherhood, one that Wrath ignored. Right after dinner.
~ J.R. Ward
John took his fucking time in Xhex's shower , washing himself thoroughly not because he was dirty, but because he figured two could play at the whole whip-the-state-clean, what-happened-didn't-happen thing.
~ J.R. Ward
Life's too short to be a grown-up all the time
~ Jaci Burton
You write. You play. Tell me.
~ Jaci Burton
In the hall itself the din of the music - for this is the real way to play a jukebox and what it was originally for - was so tremendous that it shattered Dean and Stan and me for a moment in the realization that we had never dared to play music as we wanted, and this was how loud we wanted.
~ Jack Kerouac
I play games with her fabulous eyes and she longs to be in a monastery
~ Jack Kerouac
Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.
~ Jack London
My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.
~ Candis Cayne
My pa is a brilliant, charming man. We go out and play together and laugh a lot. He has a twinkle in his eye.
~ Rachael Stirling
I remember doing my first school play. We were doing 'Oliver Twist,' and I was cast as Oliver. It was the first time I ever felt brave and confident and truly happy about something.
~ Kaya Scodelario
And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
~ Harlan Coben
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
~ Eddie Izzard
In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.
~ Carice van Houten
I found myself at Cambridge, loved my course, and met these amazing people who got me heavily involved. I presumed I would have to go to drama school, but I did a play with my uni friends, who were doing lots of pub theatre in London, and through that met my agent. She said 'Don't go to drama school. I'll get you a job' and two weeks later she did.
~ Nicola Walker
I don't know if I could play 'intimidating' in a way that's physically a tough type, and it feels like since 'Mindhunter' came out, auditions have been much more geared toward more intelligent characters. And that's the kind of stuff I like to play.
~ Cameron Britton
I think the more matches that I play, the better shape I'm going to get in. That's the best type of fitness you can do.
~ John Isner