Quotes About Play

You'll look like a scary calavera now," Catty assured the young girl as she leaned back to admire the skeleton skull she had made on her face. "Who's next?" Catty asked and pulled out another paintbrush. Four hands shot up, but one little girl eased into the chair in front of Catty before she had a chance to choose. "My turn," she said. Catty smiled and began smudging white over the girl's rosy cheeks.

Over and over and over, Mom and Dad towed them out, turned them around, then let go. The water whooshed them back to shore. The hot sun above, the cold water beneath: it was a feeling you could never get tired of.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

Other people just have fun. They have fun, and it comes naturally to them.

if our children are to thrive in a world that is rapidly evolving and full of uncertainty, they need less structure and more play.

One of the quickest ways to discourage a child's budding interest is to take it out of the realm of play and turn it into one more organized activity.

Creativity is the language of childhood and we don't want to miss a word.

And it is unstructured play that provides the greatest opportunities for kids to be curious, creative, spontaneous, and collaborative.

When I play with my cat, who knows but that she regards me more as a plaything than I do her? —MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE

am talking about this insane preoccupation with throwing balls of various shapes and sizes back and forth.

he's now in hiding, in another state. I give him cash to live on." "Is that legal?" "That's not a fair question in coal country. Nothing is black-and-white in my world. The enemy breaks every rule in the book, so the fight is never fair. If you play by the rules, you lose, even when you're on the right side.

If Garp was going to play lacrosse, Jenny thought, where would he go? Not out, because it's dark; he'd lose the ball.

I didn't like the play. But I saw it under unfavorable circumstances – the curtains were up. GROUCHO MARX

The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

When we are playing [games], we are stretching our emotional expressive ranges, loosening up our biochemical flow of information, getting unstuck, and healing our feelings.

Always games, baby. But the rules are ours to break.' Julian Harte

Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.

The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.

Spending time with math people is a lot of fun. As a result of the play, I've had semi-drunken dinners with mathematicians all over the country. I recommend the experience.

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

It is just so cool to play on the beach right next to the water. I am deeply moved by water as I think most people are - so to play music with it is a most powerful experience.