Quotes About Play

Childrens' laughter is like medicine to sadness.

even realize I was writing a play. I just used different characters' names so that if someone found my pages, they wouldn't know I was writing about myself. But eventually I let a close and trusted friend read what I'd written, and he said, "Man, this is a really good play.

The first time I put on my play I Know I've Been Changed, I took for granted that it would be a huge success. I envisioned folks lining up outside the theater and filling all the seats. I could hear their loud laughter and endless applause resounding in my ears. Feeling optimistic, in the summer of 1993 I spent every cent from my income tax return, money that should have gone to a car

to learn. For one thing, who goes to a play on the Fourth of July? People are barbecuing and watching fireworks. Also, I was a total unknown. No one had heard of Tyler Perry, no one knew about my play. Why would they come?

Do you play tennis? Anarchists play a lot of tennis. And Counts do too. Counts and anarchists are the kind of people who, right now, play tennis most.

When you have children or grandchildren it seems kind of waste if they cannot play on the lawn because there is fertilizer all over it.-Author, ORGANIC LANDSCAPING TECHNIQUES BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOKS

Kit spends a week of her summer vacation volunteering at the local theater—she wants to write a newspaper article about a play that's opening soon. It even stars famous actors from New York City! But behind

Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

There was lots of noise and action, but if you listened carefully, you could tell that the kids in the bushes were actually playing in other universes, all choreographed so neither players nor equipment would get in each other's way. She had picked the right cover; classical anime was just too highbrow for these dorks.

My self is at one remove Because it has gone to you Who will not display The sense of me another, Being bound in yourself By my forlorn desire. And yet I would not not love If I could choose not to; For I require to play By hazarding myself To you, my self, the other Whom I always desire. — Veronica Forrest-Thomson, from "Canzon, for British Rail Services," Collected Poems and Translations (Allardyce Barnett, 1990),

Love is a word from the old poems you read. In real life there is no love. Men come together like apes and birds. It is sweet sometimes to play with a woman, but the wind blows and there is an end of it.

You will always be your child's favorite toy.

I never pay for Chinese food." "Explain." "Because it's my favorite." "Explain better." "I started eating it all the time.....It became less special. It got old. It was my favorite, but it got old and dull, and your favorite's not supposed to do that. So I decided I'd never buy it again. It could only be a gift. And now its special again. Like Christmas." "You're a philosopher, Charlie." "Philosophy is just tricks you play on yourself to through the week.

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.

I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play.

Many years ago when I first started my career Maradona told me "to enjoy and play as you know", and that's stayed with me ever since and is the best advice I've been given.

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

I've always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I've always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.

What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away.

I'd be in the backyard minding my own business. The other kids would call me names, like meatball head or neo-Calvinist. I'd run after them, but lucky for them the chain would snap my neck back.