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Quotes About Play

I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.
~ Ray Bradbury
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
~ Roy Campanella
The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.
~ Frederick Salomon Perls
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
~ Saint Augustine
You must be sure that you give back something that's beneficial to the game. Any of the teaching you do must be for the benefit of the men who play.
~ Henry Iba
There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess
~ Mortimer Collins
Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
What is the moral of your play, Jack?" "Oh, it could be a number of things: stay the hell out of Europe, for example. Or: when the men with swords come, run away! Especially if they've got Bibles, too." "Sound advice.
~ Neal Stephenson
What is a game but a drill that's dressed up in colorful clothing?" Dojo said.
~ Neal Stephenson
Csongor played in a hockey league that appeared to supply 90 percent of his needs in the way of both exercise and companionship
~ Neal Stephenson
I'm asking for simplicity, for purity and ease of choice and no pressure. I'm asking for Preschool.
~ Ned Vizzini
The 1789 Revolution had given the French a political script of unequalled drama. For the better part of the following century the temptation to reenact the play was irresistible.
~ Niall Ferguson
There is no joy involved in climbing mountains, there is simply the challenge, the self-invented challenge, the play.
~ Reinhold Messner
I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five - this was when I was in New York. I then moved to LA when I was 16... but before that I had done a play on Broadway.
~ Danny Masterson
I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.
~ Jason Lee
Of course, you feel good to play in a familiar environment. I enjoyed Delhi 2000 a lot. But the advantage doesn't work during a game. There, only the moves count.
~ Viswanathan Anand
My mom never cared if I came home dirty from playing outside with my brother. If I got my dress muddy, or my jeans were ripped, or I got blood on something. But I think a lot of girls have a different experience.
~ Morena Baccarin
I consider 'White Collar' my home base. I'm so lucky to get to play a character that's very multifaceted and the writers take risks on and never get into a staid process with.
~ Matt Bomer
Being in the cloud made it easy for great content to run multiple instances. When someone makes a great experience, 30,000 people can play with it at the same time.
~ David Baszucki
My favourite memory was the first time my mum bought me a bubble blower. I must have been the happiest girl in the world that day. I was all over those bubbles like a moth to a flame.
~ Debra Stephenson
Bayern Munich are a team that absolutely have to play in the Champions League.
~ Arjen Robben
I like speed, I like passion, I like this style of football. Bayern Munich, for example, are very successful and play another style. I respect their style and it is another idea about football that is very successful but, if I had to choose what style I like most of all, it is the style we play.
~ David Wagner
Kids below 10 or 12, I think they just need to learn by playing at golf. Later on, in high school, when they develop muscles and everything, that's when they need to see about getting lessons.
~ Bubba Watson
My first play, 'The Colored Museum,' was done in '86 at the Public Theater.
~ George C. Wolfe