Quotes About Play

I don't like to go any longer than two years without appearing on stage.

I wake up every day with great appreciation for life and appreciation to play this game.

I am very happy to be playing in the United Arab Emirates.

I could go back to Argentina to live, but not to play.

Even when you think you should be playing more, you have to stay positive for when the opportunities arise.

I was close to Napoli and it's true that I did hope to one day play for them, but I am so happy here that after arriving at Lazio, I stopped thinking about it.

Arsenal are the club that plays the best football in England, so I really wanted to come here.

Arsenal were really interested in me for a long time, and I think that I fit into the football Arsenal play.

How much better to be dead at thirty!' — Well, you thought I was melancholy, and you played all sorts of pranks to amuse me, and between two kisses I said, 'Every day some pretty woman leaves the play before it is over!' — And I do not want to see the last piece; that is all.

that one could play with reality and give it what shape one chose.

Sports is the toy department of human life.

Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.

Your life is nothing, just a little makeshift that you play with for a while, a machine that you put to use. And if something cracks it, then it's cracked, that's all.

My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

I am a great admirer of Leopold II, although I think that he should be destroyed in the memory of mankind and reduced to the state in which I presented him in my play, namely a dirty goblin who as soon as he does something of any interest must be raised in order to become a fully-fledged human being.

We are also the players in a cosmic drama acted out before the heavenly hosts. In that play, "every act of faith by every one of the people of God is like the tolling of a bell, and a faith like Job's reverberates throughout the universe.

games aren't the opposite of work, but experiences that set aside the ordinary purposes of things.

fun isn't the experience of pleasure, but the outcome of tinkering with a small part of the world in a surprising way. Think

My daughter showed us the key: misery gives way to fun when you take an object, event, situation, or scenario that wasn't designed for you, that isn't invested in you, that isn't concerned in the slightest for your experience of it, and then treat it as if it were. ...this is what play means.

By manipulating the physical configuration of [any situation], you make it produce a subset of the infinite pattern of [possibilities]. And even if you don't know how to play [above situation], you can still play with it.

But games aren't magic, and the most special thing about them isn't unique to them anyway—their artificial, deliberately limited structures teach us how to appreciate everything else that has a specific, limited structure. Which is just to say, anything whatsoever. Play isn't our goal, but a tool to discover and appreciate the structures of all the malls and fishbowls we encounter. Once

We play the contest again, Time Lord.