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Quotes About Play

The service lasted precisely three hours; and yet my brother had the face to exclaim, when he saw us descending, ' ''What, done already?'' 'On Sunday evenings we used to be permitted to play, if we did not make much noise; now a mere titter is sufficient to send us into corners!
~ Emily Bronte
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
We play at paste, Till qualified for pearl, Then drop the paste, And deem ourself a fool. The shapes, though, were similar, And our new hands Learned gem-tactics Practising sands.
~ Emily Dickinson
Also everywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again so they can take a photo, but they don't want to actually play with them, they'd rather drink coffee talking to other adults. Sometimes there's a small kid crying and the Ma of it doesn't even hear.
~ Emma Donoghue
I think she was too tired to play anymore, she was in a hurry to get to Heaven so she didn't wait, why didn't she wait for me?
~ Emma Donoghue
Everywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again so they can take a photo, but they don't want to actually play with them, they'd rather drink coffee talking to other adults.
~ Emma Donoghue
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!
~ Enid Blyton
splashing. 'They're going!' he called. 'They
~ Enid Blyton
I don't want to grow up,' she thought. 'There can't be anything nicer in the world than this - being with the others, having fun with them. No - I don't want to grow up!
~ Enid Blyton
CHILDREN walked round the golf course together, after talking to old Lucas. 'We must keep out of the way of anyone playing,' said Dick, 'or we might get hit on the head with a ball! Hey, Timmy, what are you doing in the bracken?' Timmy came out with something in his mouth. He dropped it at George's feet. It was a golf ball, fairly new. George picked
~ Enid Blyton
Play along, the wink said. I'll get you out of this. At least Artemis hoped this was what his wink communicated and not something like 'Any chance of another kiss later?
~ Eoin Colfer
Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a kind as the author pleases to make it. If short, of a short one; if long, of a long one.
~ Epictetus
vautré sur une chaise de métal, j'espionnai le jeu des garçonnets, lesquels se lançaient leurs voiliers miniatures d'un bord à l'autre du bassin circulaire, puis, malgré moi, j'observai le vent dans la ramée, l'oscillation des arbustes, j'envoyai deux ou trois cailloux pour dessiner des ronds sur l'eau et je me penchais vers les fleurs lorsque la paix m'inonda… J'avais compris.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
The hawk plays with the pigeon and the pigeon is happy, but not knowing that it is playing with death.
~ Amos Tutuola
Later he would counsel parents to allow their children to act out their feelings through puppets, as a way to bring some distance between the children and their difficult emotions.
~ Amy Hollingsworth
So," Asa said conversationally, "want to go home and play butterflies?" Sebastian grimaced. "Do you promise not to pull my wings off?" Asa looked at him sideways. "Do you promise to fly back?
~ Amy Lane
But he didn't have any toys," she said softly.
~ Amy Lane
On the off chance that you have children, don't clean up at all. As children, my brother and sister and I loved waking up early and playing cocktail party with the leftover debris
~ Amy Sedaris
To retrain your kitten to inhibit her bite, use the scream or hiss to stop the behavior, and when it's due to normal play, simply stop the game. She'll learn that any time she bites the fun stops. The only way for playtime to continue is if she learns to inhibit her bite and claws.
~ Amy Shojai
After you apply the ointment, salve or other medicine to the skin problem, distract the kitten with a game. Play with a feather or fishing-pole toy for ten to fifteen minutes, to allow the medicine to be absorbed.
~ Amy Shojai
Playing with your kitten can be a powerful bonding and training tool. Make a point to play with your kitten for at least twenty minutes, twice a day.
~ Amy Shojai
She loved the way you could transform the meaning of a scene with how you played it.
~ Amy Sohn
Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life.
~ Andre Breton
Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought.
~ Andre Breton