Quotes About Play

You cannot, it seems, let children run about the streets. People who have seen them running wild in Russia say that the sight is not a pleasant one.

And were they happy together? Sally asked ...; for, she admitted, she knew nothing about them, only jumped to conclusions, as one does, for what can one know even of the people one lives with every day? she asked. Are we not all prisoners? She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell, and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall.

It had seemed so safe, thinking of her. Ghost, air, nothingness, a thing you could play with easily and safely at any time of day or night, she had been that...Suddenly, the empty drawing-room steps, the frill of the chair inside, the puppy tumbling on the terrace, the whole wave and whisper of the garden became like curves and arabesques flourishing round a centre of complete nothingness.

L'amore aveva migliaia di forme. Potevano esservi innamorati che avevano il dono di scegliere gli elementi delle cose e metterli insieme e così, dotandoli di una interezza che non possedevano nella realtà, fare di una scena, di un incontro tra persone (ora tutte svanite e separate), una sorta di globo compatto su cui il pensiero indugia, con cui l'amore gioca.

Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!

Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled...in a unique and inimitable way.

Look at the harlequins! [...] All around you. Trees are harlequins, words are harlequins. So are situations and sums. Put two things together—jokes, images—and you get a triple harlequin. Come on! Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!

Art is a divine game.

Stop moping! she would cry: Look at the harlequins! What harlequins? Where? Oh, everywhere. All around you. Trees are harlequins, words are harlequins. So are situations and sums. Put two things together jokes, images and you get a triple harlequin. Come on! Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!

I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.

When fun is forbidden, it is all the more treasured.

Para qué sirve jugar con los hijos? Es la manera más directa de entrar en relación con ellos. Generalmente, les pedimos que se adapten al mundo de los adultos –cosa que hacen, por ejemplo, soportando largas jornadas escolares–. Jugar con ellos es hacer el camino inverso: nosotros nos adaptamos un rato al mundo de los niños. Parece ser un trato justo. Definitivamente, jugar es una cosa seria. Y los niños están dispuestos a enseñarnos las reglas.

You can rewrite life all you want, Sandy thought. It's still a play where everyone dies in the end.

You can rewrite life all you want, Sandy thought,. It's still a play where everyone dies in the end.

Ellos se limitaban a jugar, tú te desangrabas en el juego.

He leans forward seriously. "Bliss. At work and at play, let safety lead the way." Of course," I say. "Silly me." Danger never takes a vacation." That's right. Expect the unexpected." And never, never -" Yes?" He wags his finger. "Check a gas tank with a lighted flare." A laugh snorts out. "Good to know.

A game they played, he and his mother, when he was very small. Before school, before he had any other world but her.

They give her tractors and things to play with instead of dolls, just to prove that girls are exactly the same as boys. Mind you, they're a bit illogical, it seems to me, because they have never forced me to play with dolls, which I would have thought would have proved the point just as effectively.

Wolves are disciplined not only when they hunt but also when they travel, when they play, and when they eat. Nature doesn't view discipline as a negative thing. Discipline is DNA. Discipline is survival.

The villages he'd played in were all around us, bright and leafy in the sunshine, nests of stars in the night sky.

I was thinking about a lot of things at that moment, really, and I mean a lot of things. Like the way squirrels in my front yard won't play with me. But more serious stuff too.

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character, and they're prominent issues in life, and I think people can relate to them.

Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we're indifferent to whether we win or lose?

Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.