Quotes About Play

The play may actually have profited from having an unworthy hero: Custer, for all his early brilliance

Did I still remember how to let my mind play?

Are you bringing antimatter to Hearth? You play with star-fire energies as casually as you put edges on furniture!

There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime.

Mary was bigger than Laura, and she had a rag doll named Nettie. Laura had only a corncob wrapped in a handkerchief, but it was a good doll. It was named Susan. It wasn't Susan's fault that she was only a corncob. Sometimes Mary let Laura hold Nettie, but she did it only when Susan couldn't see.

Little rabbits, you know, always have games together before they go to bed.

Laura had only a corncob wrapped in a handkerchief, but it was a good doll. It was named Susan.

I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!

They heard the voices howling and shrieking in the wind, and the house creaking, and the snow swishing. "This will never do!" said Ma. "Let's play bean-porridge hot! Mary, you and Laura play it together, and, Carrie, you hold up your hands. We'll do it faster than Mary and Laura can!" So they all played bean-porridge hot, faster and faster until they could not say the rhymes, for laughing.

Even Grace ran up and down the rows, screeching and waving her little sunbonnet.

They rolled till the balls were almost as tall as Almanzo; then they rolled them into a wall. They packed snow between them, and made a good fort.

What do you want?' 'I want to play,' he said. I stared at him. 'Just like that. You don't know what I'm involved in, but you want a piece of it.' 'Following you around lets me kill a lot of people.

I met his gaze with my own empty one. I was tired of games. Just because I could play them, and play them fairly well, didn't mean I enjoyed them.

No sin is original, no matter what the bright young things may hope. We're all merely playing to a theme.

I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.

God did not intend for Irish kids to play in the sun, according to my mother.

A group of little creatures is coming up the walk. A pirate, a dinosaur, two fairies, and a bride. Why is it that you never see a kid dressed as a groom on Halloween?

No: Shakespear's household bills Could never be responsible, they say, For all the heartache and the 1000 ills His work is heir to, poem, sonnet, play . . . Emended readings give the real reason: The times were out of joint, the loves, the season. - The Critics

The ocean doesn't want me today, But I'll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard's away But the ocean doesn't want me today

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

The world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on it are the elements.

Science is conservative and one of the reasons science is conservative is science is trying to play it safe.

I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have fulfilled my mission.