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Quotes About Play

On days like this, baseball would make Michael as happy as it ever did. No umpires. No coaches. No rules except the ones you made up.
~ Mike Lupica
I played as much golf as I could in North Dakota, but summer up there is pretty short. It usually falls on Tuesday.
~ Mike Morley
I never understand when people say, 'Do you do comedy or tragedy?' I don't think they're very much different. They both have to be true, and there isn't a great play in the world that doesn't have funny parts to it - as 'Salesman' does, as 'King Lear' does. The whole idea is to reflect life in some way, which means surely you have to have both.
~ Mike Nichols
My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.
~ Mike Pence
My favorite part of the game is the opportunity to play.
~ Mike Singletary
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
~ Mike Singletary
Nuclear weapons are like a rifle hanging on the wall in a play. We did not write the play, we are not staging it and we do not know what the author intends. Anyone could take the rifle from the wall at any time.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
He who avoids misunderstandings, Amused at the play of his own mind, Is ever joyful.
~ Milarepa
The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.
~ Unknown
Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor.
~ Min Jin Lee
He never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to him that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor.
~ Min Jin Lee
Learning was like playing, not labor.
~ Min Jin Lee
When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny.
~ Mindy Kaling
fault. Everyone knows it's bad luck to say the name of Shakespeare's Scottish Play. At least for
~ Unknown
Food seemed impossibly strange. Children thought I was a child and tried to play with me, but I could neither play nor work, I could only wonder why. Why do people live at all.
~ Miranda July
A ljudi kupuju tu plastiku i te sli?ice, pa se igraju time kao djeca. Nije to baš mala stvar, bacati uvijek nove senzacije u gladnu fantaziju špitala. Treba tu osobita metoda da bi se išibali ovi klonuli živci i ova rezignacija.
~ Miroslav Krleža
I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'
~ Unknown
projects, passion, peers, and play. In short, we believe the best way to cultivate creativity is to support people working on projects based on their passions, in collaboration with peers and in a playful spirit.
~ Mitchel Resnick
opposite: I believe the rest of school (indeed, the rest of life) should become more like kindergarten.
~ Mitchel Resnick
Curly for a couple of hours, and talked to the doctors about him. They told me that in about six months his instep and ankle bones should be broken and put in a cast so that he would be able to bend his ankle. Curly decided against this, and although it gave him much pain and he limped his way through life, he never let it interfere with his work … or, for that matter, his play.
~ Moe Howard
Memory is a talking toy, by pressing on different parts of the body, you can hear the recording of retro memories.
~ Unknown
Science and art is a toy store. Created in order to occupy a person with something.
~ Unknown
The good guys can't play this hard game of love. It is only for adventurous souls.
~ Unknown
strong focus on the arts and on play, creativity and imagination, the emotions, and their role in thinking, is
~ Unknown