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Quotes About Play

You want to play? Come find me angel boy.
~ Nalini Singh
Naasir stretched lazily before settling back into his previous position. "I'm old enough now, and I want someone to play with like you play with Janvier and Raphael does with Elena. Even Dmitri plays with Honor." This seemed to fascinate him. "The rules are secret in each game. I want to have secret rules with a woman who . . ." A long pause. "A woman who knows me, understands what I am, and who wants to have secret rules with me.
~ Nalini Singh
Poor innocent baby, about to get fleeced. "Tut-tut, gorgeous. You know when you play poker with a man behind closed doors, there is only one acceptable currency.
~ Nalini Singh
A few minutes?" Feeling suddenly shy, she crossed her arms over her chest. The smile on his face widened, becoming touched with the feral wildness of the cat. It made thinking difficult. "I believed males needed a longer recovery time to mate." "Not this kitty cat." Rising to his feet, he said, "Get ready to play.
~ Nalini Singh
Children were huge, wild creatures full of promise and hope and dirt and mischief.
~ Nalini Singh
I've got lots and lots and lots to tell you." He sounded excited. "I have friends. Ben's a wolf and Tally brought Noor to play, too. I'm going to marry Noor one day. And Ben's gonna mate with Marlee even if she is bigger than he is.
~ Nalini Singh
Eres mío para jugar contigo a mi antojo
~ Nalini Singh
You wanted to play, baby." Soft words that had her freezing in place. "So we'll play.
~ Nalini Singh
It was, she had to admit, some kind of wonderful to be kissed so deliciously by the only man who had dared play with her cat with the intention of winning.
~ Nalini Singh
Sugar, remember—" "One of your best ideas, cher." Secret rules, she thought, her eyes on his profile as he watched the sky rain color, secret play. When he met her eyes, his own reflecting the sky, she said, "Full throttle." The smile faded from his lips, raw emotion in his voice as he repeated the vow. "Full throttle.
~ Nalini Singh
It was, she had to admit, some kind of wonderful to be kissed so deliciously by the only mand who had dared play with her cat with the intention of winning.
~ Nalini Singh
Why? Because I played god with you? Baby girl, that's what I do. And not lightly, either." He thought about that for a second. "Well, yes, sometimes lightly. You know what they say about all work and no play.
~ Nalo Hopkinson
In her game, she didn't need a gun, or space-helmet, or lightsaber. In the game Margot played when she was a child, she was enough all by herself.
~ Naomi Alderman
Writing is storytelling, and storytelling, after all, is play." Naomi Alderman
~ Naomi Alderman
Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
~ Natalie Gulbis
The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment.
~ Nathaniel Branden
The game I love to play : Keep the ball equidistant from Bruno and Roxy.
~ Naveen Patnaik
Procrastination is not the cause of our problems with accomplishing tasks; it is an attempt to resolve a variety of underlying issues, including low self-esteem, perfectionism, fear of failure and of success, indecisiveness, an imbalance between work and play, ineffective goal-setting, and negative concepts about work and yourself.
~ Unknown
I felt privileged to live and work and play in a place that few had ever seen. And I was grateful I had been imprisoned here, in a leprosarium, where I could begin to rebuild my life in a different way.
~ Unknown
you use your whole body like you did when you played as a kid. Grown-up amusements don't allow for crawling and wriggling, getting good and muddy, and tearing the knees of your pants.
~ Nevada Barr
For literature, all the world is a stage.
~ Ng?g? wa Thiong'o
Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against another.
~ Ng?g? wa Thiong'o
With the failure of the imagination to present form the mind discovers that it has the capacity to conceive of the infinite, and thus has the power to transcend everything that sense can measure and thus present. The sublime feeling in this case arises from the play between the finite nature of the senses and the infinite capacity of reason.
~ Unknown
I know it's just a game. But so is life. And how we play the game has something to do with how we live our life.
~ Unknown