Quotes About Play

how you used to sit cross-legged in your room, with your eyes closed, trying to levitate your toys when Lottie made you clean your room.

dirty-word Scrabble

The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations and their fate.

The advantage of wisdom is that you always can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.

In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing

1 Make a slit in a tennis ball and drop a treat inside.

Here was Knight on Jordan that summer, long before MJ played his first NBA game: "The kid is just an absolutely great kid. If I were going to pick the three or four best athletes I've ever seen play basketball, he'd be one of 'em. I think he's the best athlete I've ever seen play basketball.

One more game," somebody behind her said, and somebody else said, "But who's going to be It?

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us.

A most extraordinary device for catching dragon-flies is used by the children of the province of Kii. They get a long hair, - a woman's hair, - and attach a very small pebble to each end of it, so as to form a miniature "bolas"; and this they sling high into the air. A dragon-fly pounces upon the passing object; but the moment that he seizes it, the hair twists round his body, and the weight of the pebbles brings him to the ground.

I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for one reason or other, once more to play at being sane.

In the thick of play, his daydreams were so vivid that a glimpse of reality would have shocked him.

Things can kill you. All kinds of things, like toys, or older brothers.

She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair.

Durante un tiempo había sido una niña inocente que jugaba con plumas en el suelo de la guardia de un diablo. Sin embargo aquella inocencia había desaparecido.

Una Vez Fue una niña inocente que jugaba con plumas en el suelo de la guarida de un diablo, pero ahora esa inocencia había desaparecido

What would you give someone who likes to play the piano?" "A piano." "Simon." "A really huge metronome that could also double as a weapon?

I can't believe he took you to an actual resteraunt. I assumed his idea od a date would be making you watch him play World of Warcraft with his nerd friends.

Will sat down beside his wife and pulled her into his lap. "I am going to kiss your mother now," he announced. "Flee if you will, children. If not, we could play Ludo when the romance is over." "The romance is never over," said James glumly. Tessa laughed and put up her face to be kissed.

It's me," said Jace. "Watching me play Scrabble is enough to make most women swoon. Imagine if I actually put in some effort.

The problem with a small town is that when you don't buy into the powers that be there are very few other choices. It's like a play where there is only a "virtuous" lead, a villain, and bit players. Better to be the villain because you're not duped into believing you're in more than a play, and at least your name goes on the program.

Breaking things heals a great many hurts. This is why children do it so often.

It's not a game if you don't cheat, it's just two sods making a mess with fifty-two pieces of paper.

All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.