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Quotes About Play

I'm an only child, and it wasn't always easy. There were a lot of games that were hard to play. Like catch. God, that was tiring.
~ Dominic Dierkes
And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.
~ Don Winslow
Exaptation, in which a trait evolved for one function can co-opt a new function, is commonplace in nature. We use sex to procreate, but also to bond, play, heal, and enjoy pleasure.
~ Donald D. Hoffman
I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak.
~ Alexander Scriabin
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Life is too short to be serious
~ Cory Monteith
What people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort, or esteem, but games worth playing
~ Thomas Szasz
If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.
~ Bill Russell
It's all make believe, isn't it?
~ Marilyn Monroe
Life is a game, and it's much more fun if you play it as your own game, so stay light and loose and relaxed.
~ Bill Murray
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
~ Truman Capote
When I was nine, I played the demon king in "Cinderella" and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster.
~ Boris Karloff
Life is a game like any other; we just don't take it as seriously.
~ Babe Ruth
In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing
~ Kwame Anthony Appiah
The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell when his play became serious business .
~ Jakob Bohme
The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.
~ Le Corbusier
As long as life has the level of being a game, you can play it.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
A body of clay, a mind full of play, a moment's life - that's me.
~ Harivanshrai Bachchan
Life is a game, kid! It all depends on how you play!
~ Mario
If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.
~ Lee Iacocca
What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.
~ Carl Andre
If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.
~ Dr. Seuss
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
~ John Locke
Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.
~ Lewis Mumford