Quotes About Play

The students appeared to be ten or eleven. They were playing some trust game where the students would fall from things and be caught, or get wrapped up in a bag and dragged around and then released. -I have never understood these games, said Loring. I don't know why you would want to make children more trusting. That is their principle fault to begin with.

En sevdi?i oyunca??yd?. Neydi? K?rm?z?ya boyanm??, ufak, tahta bir ku?. K?rm?z?yd?, gerçekten öyleydi; tam da gün ?????nda, gölgede, mumlarla, ?öminenin ba??nda ona bakan bir o?lan çocu?unu hayallere dald?racak, parlak, tatl? bir k?rm?z?. Ama muhabbetku?u ya da öyle de?ersiz bir tür oldu?unu sanmay?n. Hay?r, onun ku?u bir bayku?tu.

Skipping is nature's antidepressant.

I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life, like a whirlwind. She's ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play.

Die Leute vom Theater reden immer vom Theater.

Life was something too great, and death also had something too great about it; they were not to be played with. Having courage was a different thing from having no fear; courage was consciousness of danger, fearlessness mere ignorance.

Mass-Observation diarist Olivia Cockett also found it repellent. "It shouldn't be allowed," she insisted. "It makes play and sport of agonies, not to help people bear them, but to pander to the basest, crudest, most-to-be-wiped-out feelings of cruel violence.

Is not the clay pit of which you speak that in which you fashioned exceedingly unsymmetrical imitations of rat-pies in your childhood?

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

Eroticism, intertwined as it is with imagination, is another form of play. I think of play as an alternative reality midway between the actual and the fictitious, a safe space where we experiment, reinvent ourselves, and take chances. Through play we suspend disbelief—we pretend something is real even when we damn well know it is not. Earnestness has no place here.

They could play an endless game of hide-and -seek in so many rooms and up and down the halls that intersected and turned into dead-end porches and rooms full of wax begonias and elephant's- ears, or rooms full of trunks. She remembered the nights--the moon vine, the everblooming Cape jessamines, the verbena smelling under running feet, the lateness of dancers.

OLD MAN: Make believe yourself, it's your turn. OLD WOMAN: It's your turn. OLD MAN: Your turn. OLD WOMAN: Your turn OLD MAN: Your turn. OLD WOMAN: Your turn.

The water was cold but it soon warms up when the boys are made of sunshine.

Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.

it is well known that nothing is such thirsty work as the acquisition of knowledge. Although the chancellor's orders forbade students and tutors to drink and play before dusk, drinking and playing took place around the clock in Oxenfurt, for it is well known that if there is anything that makes men thirstier than the acquisition of knowledge it is the full or partial prohibition of drinking.

Although the chancellor's orders forbade students and tutors to drink and play before dusk, drinking and playing took place around the clock in Oxenfurt, for it is well known that if there is anything that makes men thirstier than the acquisition of knowledge it is the full or partial prohibition of drinking.

for nothing is more boring than being forced to play.

If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven.

It sure did grow big snowballs, didn't it?

I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre, because there's a language there and you can twist it and turn it on its head or play to it or go sideways at any time.

I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then.

I was a bouncer when I was in DePaul in Chicago at the theater school. I threw drunks out of bars - unless I had a play running that weekend. But I only had two actual fights. Some were like out of old Westerns.

I had a huge interior world as a kid: I'd sit on endless wet holidays in Cornwall playing with paper dolls.

I don't mind which wicket you play on - wet, dry, slow, or fast. I just want to play cricket.