Quotes About Play

I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.

The national nonprofit I founded, 'KaBOOM!,' is on a mission to save play for America's children, and has long been championing the cause in high-need communities.

The good thing about kids is they want to be mobile; they want to be running around nonstop. They want to play. They want to be outside. So they're inherently more active than we are, because we get much lazier as we get older. Part of being a parent is keeping up with your kid.

I still had a normal childhood with my friends from school.

For me, menswear is an experimental ground to play with something. There is scope to be gained there - you can create a new normality.

Everyone wants to play. If you don't, normally you're not happy.

Normally, if you play a part, you have the words, and you invent the personality out of your experience, your knowledge - your life, in a way.

Normally, you spend the play convincing people of the world and the characters.

That's what counts for you as a player if you are on a high salary and you are earning, let's say, enough money, which you normally can't spend in your lifetime. It's something you should really think about - where you play, what level you play, the audience.

I have a business in North Carolina but am open to coaching or broadcasting as well. I've got four years on my contract and want to play as long as I can with my knees, but I'll let God take care of that.

I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

You have to let kids be kids. Robbing them of their childhood and/or adolescence is not fair.

Gaming notebooks aren't that abundant. Not that many gamers are able to play on notebooks.

I used to come home and play piano all day by ear and make songs up or figure out my favourite Elvis songs. I'd make up games by blindfolding myself and singing the harmony to whatever notes I'd play.

Moving to the U.S. was an adjustment. I noticed that the kids played in groups. Back in Kakuma, everyone played together.

If you want to play showy football and be noticed then mine isn't the position to pick.

I like the notion of theater as recreational.

I was kind of unproven. I didn't play in a high-profile school, and with that comes the notion that, 'He's not ready.' I felt I had questions to answer. Was I going to be ready to play against elite-level athletes?

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.

Nowadays midfielders definitely have to be complete players - you can't just be a destroyer, you have to build play too.

I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character, understand the story, and just play it to the fullest extent.