Quotes About Play

They do everything in their power to make fortune favor them in this life, but nevertheless they think so little of it, in relation to eternity, that they view the events of the world as we do those of a play.

la dialectique contient souvent chez lui [Platon] une certaine part de « jeu », ce qui est très conforme à la mentalité grecque, mais, quand il l'abandonne pour le mythe, on peut être sûr que le jeu a cessé et qu'il s'agit de choses ayant en quelque façon un caractère « sacré ».

I started my cooking 'career' aged 15, almost 20 years ago. At the time it was quite a shock suddenly working 75 to 80 hours a week, without time to play football or other sports.

He hit a worm burner

Wolfe's head moved. 'You've seen that play, Archie?' 'Yes, sir. I would say a quarter to ten, maybe twenty to." 'Have you seen it, Saul?' 'Yes, sir. Twenty to ten.' 'You know that?' 'Yes, sir. Just my habit of noticing things.' 'Don't disparage it. The more you put in a brain, the more it will hold--if you have one...

When you play you feel really good – and really good circumstances come into your life. Seriousness brings serious circumstances. Life is supposed to be fun!

He had to remember what she was. Human. Breakable. And he was an animal who liked to play rough.

I have a grand piano in my living room, can you imagine the absurdity? I don't even play. Perhaps they know I might entertain dear Noël." She spoke of her friend Noël Coward.

One resourceful mom took her son's fixation on the video game Minecraft and made real wood "Minecraft" blocks for her son and the neighborhood kids to play with. This provided a connection between building things in the virtual world and building structures in the real world.

As private parts to the gods are we! They play with us for their sport. (Lord Melchett, Blackadder.)

Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own).

The physical exercise and emotional stretching that children enjoy in unorganized play is more varied and less time-bound than is found in organized sports. Playtime—especially unstructured, imaginative, exploratory play—is increasingly recognized as an essential component of wholesome child development.

They won't accept reasonable things with their minds but the fantastic things they'll swallow whole when their emotions are brought into play. Because the emotions have no limits on belief. The emotions will swallow anything—and they do.

So, what are you saying? That this was all some kind of vicarious fantasy? The road not taken? In a way. I was . . . I was trying . . . Oh, shit. Her hand rose and her eyes widened. You were composing. In DNA? It did sound ludicrous. But what was music, ever, except pure play?

collected minerals and at ten years of age wrote poems but still played with blocks.

People for whom summer wasn't a verb.

Well, I said. If you need me, I'll be outside, playing with sharp objects.

Oh, did you expect me to play fair? Cupid laughed. I am the god of love. I am never fair.

It is true I do not like fire. But Leo Valdez's flames are not strong enough to trouble me. Somewhere behind Hazel, a soft, lyrical voice said, What about my flames, old friend? You, he said from Percy's mouth. Me, Hecate agreed. It has been millennia since I fought at the side of a demigod. What do you say? Shall we play with fire?

I think we can all agree that this deaf elf sure plays a mean pinball.

Lovely. Imprisoned in a nursery school dungeon.

What's life worth if you can't have some fun?

Jess tried going to Terabithia alone, but it was no good. It needed Leslie to make the magic.

The path is a ribbon of moonlight across a dusky sea. The wind sings a song that beckons us To that great and mighty tree. We are the Greenowls of Ambala, clad in raiments of moss, Sprigged with lichens and grasses Then gilded with silvery frost. Fair and square we play- for a sporting lot we are. We ride the boisterous Balefire gusts And we reach for every star.