Quotes About Play

...it snowed and it snowed. But here a small boy says: "It snowed last year, too. I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea."

Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched.

What is home without children? Quiet.

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.

The first child in a family is its poem, — it is a sort of nativity play, and we bend before the younger stranger with gifts, "gold, frankincense, and myrrh." But the tenth child in a poor family is prose, and gets simply what is due to comfort. There are no superfluities, no fripperies, no idealities, about the tenth cradle.

And it is in games that many men discover their paradise.

I have a warm feeling after playing with my grandchildren. It's the liniment working.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Life's a game and men the gamblers. They'll stake their whole pile on the one chance in a thousand. Take away that one chance, and - they won't play.

In this company, you get equity. When you play the Great Game of Business, that's the measurement of success.

Do they really say you're weird?' she said. 'Well, yes. But I don't mind,' I said. 'I mind,' said Mum. 'Oh, Martina, why won't you try and fit in more? You're an intelligent little girl. If you'd only play nicely with the others and stop all your silly pretend games, you'd fit in easily enough and make friends.

La cometa es una niña de viento que desde el cielo le enseña a un niño a volar en los espacios del suelo.

Today I will try again. And tomorrow. And then the next day. If I don't get better, I will at least have fun trying. And what else is there in life but to play as much as possible?

All roles are dangerous. The world tends to trap and immobilize you in the role you play; and it is not always easy—in fact, it is always extremely hard—to maintain a kind of watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.

In explaining why children often prefer to play on sidewalks rather than in playgrounds, Jacobs writes: "Most city architectural designers are men. Curiously, they design and plan to exclude men as part of normal, daytime life wherever people live. In planning residential life, they aim at filling the presumed daily needs of impossibly vacuous housewives and preschool tots. They plan, in short, strictly for matriarchal societies" (Death and Life, p. 83).

Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries.

Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.

There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'

I used to come up to Scotland to see my uncle play and I would also watch him whenever he was on the TV.

Any time you have defensive ends going above you in the draft, when you know you put up numbers that were equal to better, you just have to use that as motivation. Whenever you're the underdog, you have to have the right attitude and just go out there and be yourself; just play.

Sweden usually don't play good against the poor teams. We like being the underdogs.

Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.