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Quotes About Playful

Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun, suggested the duke.
~ Norton Juster
Ender laughed and shook his head. 'You're actually having fun, Val' 'I can't think why I shouldn't.
~ Orson Scott Card
Elemak pulled the shower cord before he soaped. The moment the water hit him he yowled, and then did his own little splash dance, shaking his head and flipping water all over the courtyard while jabbering "ooga-booga looga-booga" just like a little kid.
~ Orson Scott Card
Peter, pretending to take a crushed pea out of his nose
~ Orson Scott Card
She brings back these costumes and you have to wear them. Most recently we were dressed as rabbits. The odd thing is that she would really get into it. We'd have sex in these rabbit suits and she would squeal and stamp her feet.
~ Cormac McCarthy
But that was the trouble with this world — at heart, it was childish.
~ Cornelia Funke
I don't just like sexual double entendres I love them, I stroke them, I milk them, I spank them when they're naughty.
~ Craig Ferguson
Recall the pure joy of riding on a backyard swing: and easy cycle of motion, the momentum coming from the swing itself. Then swing carries us; we do not force it. We pump our legs to drive our arc higher, but gravity does most of the work. We are not so much swinging as being swung.
~ Craig Lambert
He reached over and tweaked one of my bumps, then cuffed me on the chin. "You hiding walnuts in there or something?" "Shut up," I said. I jumped in and swam the length of the pool, hiding my smile underwater. He was a flirt, that was all. What was wrong with that? If Mrs. Masicotte was stupid enough to buy us a pool because he flirted a little, that was her problem, not ours.
~ Wally Lamb
I've always been," he wrote, "full of whims and mischief, and as moody as ever!
~ Walter Isaacson
Jesus was doing cartwheels across the lawn in the porch light.
~ Walter Mosley
I love you from my head tomatoes!
~ Internet meme
When people ask me what I did over the weekend I always squint and say, "Why, what did you hear?"
~ Author Unknown
A flirt is as strong as her weakest wink.
~ Author Unknown
Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.
~ Al Hirschfeld, unverified
Scorpios are extremely affectionate and also very playful. When they are happy, they can be the sunniest people around but, when they are sad, then everyone suffers.
~ Sasha Fenton
Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.
~ Etta James
James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.
~ Harold Holzer
He shook his head. "Scrub my back—and tell me more about the trip out here." "Ask me nicely." His silver eyes touched hers. "All right. Please scrub my back and tell me about the trip." She smiled, and tossed the washcloth his way. "No!" "All right, you little southern vixen," he warned. "Scrub my back or—" "Or what?" "I'll climb out of this tub, drag you back into it, and scrub yours.
~ Heather Graham
I put my lilies in front of Sam's plaque. I didn't want him to rest in peace. I wanted him to bounce around in death as he had in life, fearless, goofy, and fleet.
~ Laurie Colwin
Plus, we adults have unhealed hurts from our own childhoods, which sometimes get in the way right when our children need our support. Our own piles of old feelings interfere with parenting playfully. In turn, that makes it hard to help children with their emotional difficulties
~ Lawrence J. Cohen
Using Playful Parenting, we can help children release all this emotion in ways that aren't hurtful to others. We do this by just spending lots of time giggling together, but also with some specific techniques. To help children with fears, for example, it often helps to play as if you are the one who is scared, and really exaggerate it. Make sure they don't feel mocked or humiliated. It helps if you don't imitate them exactly, but just take the general idea and exaggerate it.
~ Lawrence J. Cohen
I'm not a quester or a searcher for the truth. I don't really think there is one answer, so I never went looking for it. My impulse is less questing and more playful. I like trying on ideas and ways of life and religious approaches. I'm just not a good candidate for conversion.
~ le guin ursula k iv
I used to do skits for my mom... and I was always entertaining as a kid.
~ Leah Remini