Quotes About Play

I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and I really wanted to play Call Of Duty.

Mi familia me ha procurado una alegría insuperable, y debo deciros, hijos míos, que ninguno de vosotros me ha causado ni un minuto de angustia, salvo por razones de salud [...] Cuando erais muy pequeños me procuraba un gran deleite jugar con vosotros, y me inspira cierta pena que esa época haya desaparecido para siempre.

What is an adventure? That depends on where you are starting from. Little girls in your country, they hide in the gap between the washing machine and the refrigerator and they make believe they are in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around them. Me and my sister, we used to hide in a gap in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around us, and make believe that we had a washing machine and a refrigerator.

Chris Grabenstein

Could a make-believe sheriff chop off Billy's head with a make-believe sword?

On the topic of winning, and the lottery: You can't lose if you don't play, therefore not losing , is winning!

If wisdom's silence then it's time to play the fool.

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

Spring bursts today, For love is risen and all earth's at play.

Today, the average American child3 is spending only between four and seven minutes in unstructured outdoor play.

Highly scheduled lives and early academics aren't what our children's brains evolved to need.

Hay mucha gente para quien la cultura es la cosa más seria, el medio que ilumina el alma y constituye la salvación; algo con lo que no se debe jugar. Pero la cultura y el arte son las primeras víctimas de esa ilusión, pues pone sobre ellos una carga que no puede llevar.

Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.

warmer than water temperature, and water play should be limited

Childhood is a slum and they love it.

Women need time and space to play - particularly when we work so hard

An obscure shame grips me. I had a fixed idea of what a goshawk was, just as those Victorian falconers had, and it was not big enough to hold what goshawks are. No one had ever told me goshawks played. It was not in the books. I had not imagined it was possible. I wondered if it was because no one had ever played with them. The thought made me terribly sad.

The cards spoke to a suspicion that many whose work is play can never be free of: that you can only flaunt your triviality for so long before punishment is due.

Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.

Two kangaroos were talking to each other, and one said, "Gee, I hope it doesn't rain today. I hate it when the children play inside."

What is a home without children? Quiet.

Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.

"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf. The other is "Wear it if it clashes."

snapdragon', which is 'a kind of play, in which brandy is set on fire, and raisins are thrown into it, which those who are unused to the sport are afraid to take out; but which may be safely snatched by a quick motion, and put blazing into the mouth, which being closed, the fire is at once extinguished'.