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Quotes About Play

What you have to do, you do with play. The universe is God's play.
~ Joseph Campbell
God has created the world in play, as it were.
~ Ramakrishna
I just go out there and play basketball. God's given me the ability. The only thing I can do is go out and play.
~ Chamique Holdsclaw
When I am playing with my grandchildren, that brings glory to God. So I don't think glory to God is simply serious. I do think that there is glory of God in laughter.
~ Rick Warren
And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.
~ Khalil Gibran
You've been playing gods-and-witches again, that's clear.
~ Janet Morris
The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
~ Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry
Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends.
~ Robert E. Sherwood
God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.
~ Emily Dickinson
In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
~ Felicity Kendal
They were worried we wouldn't get any radio play at all[ for "A Deal with God" ]. That's why it was changed [to "Running Up That Hill"].
~ Kate Bush
"Good guy" or "bad guy", hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.
~ Rutger Hauer
Enjoy the game. Happy golf is good golf.
~ Gary Player
I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.
~ Arnold Palmer
Waking up every day and coming to the ballpark and playing baseball ... that's a good feeling.
~ Jason Heyward
To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with.
~ Jean Paul Gaultier
My season 2 'Good Wife' wrap gift was this deluxe package of Mortal Kombat. I played it for, like, two weeks straight.
~ Matt Czuchry
It's more fun to play a good character with a good director and good actors around you. That's what makes it fun, and the more variety, the better.
~ Salma Hayek
I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
~ Aaron Sorkin
Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.
~ Christopher Walken
For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good at being thrown around. I bounce, in the words of my friends.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
~ Marcus Buckingham
I don't make the decision about what percentage of good guy or bad guy I play. For some reason, if I put my energy into the bad guy, that scares people. It's magic.
~ Rutger Hauer