Quotes About Play

When boys played "guerrilla warfare," which was their version of cowboys and Indians, the enemy side would have thorns glued onto their noses and say "hello" all the time.

He had high hopes that the key to unlock the riddle of four people's deaths was hidden on this tape. He'd pushed play fully intending to be satisfied with just a clue, any clue. There can't be any danger, he was thinking. What harm could come from just watching a videotape?

Cleaning up" consisted of each child contributing one Lego to the box, then dropping to the floor in exhaustion. The other 3,998 were mine to deal with.

From the open French windows Sylvie watched Maurice erecting a makeshift tennis net, which mostly seemed to involve whacking everything in sight with a mallet. Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for hours on end, the obsessive collection of inanimate objects, the brutal destruction of the fragile world around them, all seemed at odds with the men they were supposed to become.

It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play about a man driven by that thought.

Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!

Fiddling knobs, touching keys, having fun with a full grown man.

The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.

Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world

It is play and only play that makes man complete.

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

It's a game everybody plays. If you see a man with a beard and holler "Beaver!" it's five points. And if you see a man with a moustache, it's onlI three points.

When you're a kid and you're a superhero lover, the holy trinity is Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, so to be able to take any of those and play with it is a huge joy.

And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.

The people of Cleveland hate soccer. But it's my favourite thing and I follow the U.S. men's national team around when they play whenever I can.

Man does not cease to play because he grows old, he grows old because he ceases to play.

And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you.

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.

The gods play games with men as balls.

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.