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Quotes About Play

'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
~ Ian Mckellen
'Macbeth,' I am ambivalent about. I don't like that play, in fact.
~ Naseeruddin Shah
The best come to Madrid and I would love to play with Neymar.
~ Marcelo
For me, a Catalan, who plays for Barca, for me to play in Madrid - that would be very difficult.
~ Sergio Busquets
Madrid are a great club with some fantastic people and I used to play there.
~ Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
The main thing I worry about with the shoes I wear is comfort. What you're comfortable wearing is what you're going to play your best in.
~ John Stockton
For me, when I do my best acting, it's mainly imagination. Then I really have a lot of fun with it.
~ Michael Pena
That's the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live in it and develop it and make it happen.
~ Billy Magnussen
That's what acting is: really make-believe.
~ Jason Robards
When your kids are 5 or 6, they already start playing with makeup. And I was the only mother in freakin' elementary school getting called in to deal with makeup on her daughter.
~ Farrah Abraham
I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
~ Gautam Singhania
As a player, you always want to play - it would be wrong to say otherwise - but you can always understand the manager's reasons if he decides to leave you out.
~ Gareth Barry
I like Manchester, I love the fans. They are great with me, the club is great with me. But I'm not happy if I don't play, and all the time I don't play.
~ Carlos Tevez
I'm happy in Manchester and that's it. Moving to United was good for me. I play for a big club.
~ Nemanja Matic
I expect positive play from Manchester United all the time, whether you're at home or away.
~ Paul Scholes
Just doing my job," he replied, and grinned again. Why should Tank suddenly think of a play, with one of the characters complaining that another character "smiled too much"? Curious, he watched the man climb into a nice, late-model car and drive off. Why wasn't he in a company truck, like most technicians drove?
~ Diana Palmer
For a moment it seemed as if he was going to lose his temper too. His strange, pale eyes all but glared at Sophie. But he controlled himself and said, Now trot along indoors, you overactive old thing, and find something else to play with before I get angry. I hate getting angry.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
One of the most remarkable things about Antonina was her determination to include play, animals, wonder, curiosity, marvel, and a wide blaze of innocence in a household where all dodged the ambient dangers, horrors, and uncertainties. That takes a special stripe of bravery rarely valued in wartime. While
~ Diane Ackerman
Deep play arises in such moments of intense enjoyment, focus, control, creativity, timelessness, confidence, volition, lack of self-awareness (hence transcendence) while doing things intrinsically worthwhile, rewarding for their own sake…It feels cleansing because when acting and thinking becomes one, there is no room left for other thoughts.
~ Diane Ackerman
Play is our brain's favorite way of learning
~ Diane Ackerman
There are no amateurs in the world of children.
~ Don DeLillo
Silvery dancing strands that seemed the pure play of light, light as evanescent news, ideas borne on light.
~ Don DeLillo
How children adapt to available surfaces, using curbstones, stoops and manhole covers. How they take the pockmarked world and turn a delicate inversion, making something brainy and rule-bound and smooth, and then spend the rest of their lives trying to repeat the process.
~ Don DeLillo
At Crest Hill, your dog plays so hard all day, they are eager to lie down at night. We have three full-time staff members throwing tennis balls and enticing dogs to run and play so they're far too distracted to realize they're anywhere other than a second home. This means that by the end of the day all the other dogs are eager to sleep too, and so your dog rests comfortably. You won't believe how quiet our kennels are once we put the dogs to bed at 8 p.m.
~ Donald Miller