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Quotes About Playful

Poked a juggling bear in the belly. Tried to toggle Tiny Tim's crutch sideways.
~ Chris Grabenstein
you are such a dag
~ Christi Malthouse
Once upon a time there was a huge family of children; and they were terribly, terribly naughty.
~ Christianna Brand
The children hid themselves, with receptive ears, round corners.
~ Christina Stead
Sure, I've occasionally told Louis Chen that I hope a monster eats him, and he's told me to go boil my head a few times, but that tends to be in the heat of the moment, and anyway we're getting married once we get old enough, so we don't have to make nice all of the time.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Most grandmas have a touch of the scallywag.
~ Helen Thomson
Namby Pamby's little rhymes,Little jingle, little chimes.
~ Henry Carey
I hear in the chamber above meThe patter of little feet.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
To those who have substituted authoritarian science for authoritarian religion, individual thought is worthless unless it is the symbol for a reality which can be seen, tasted, felt, or thought about by everyone else. Such men adhere to a dogma as rigidly as men of fanatical religiosity. They reject the world of the personal, the happy world of open, playful, or aspiring thought.
~ Leonard Everett Fisher
He was asked to draw a rabbit that wouldn't keep still as he drew it—as soon as it had paws it scratched itself luxuriously and then went hopping off around the page, nibbling at the other questions, so that he had to chase it with the pencil to finish filling in the fur. He wound up pacifying it with some hastily sketched radishes and then drawing a fence around it to keep it in line.
~ Lev Grossman
fairies thought all this military stuff was pretty silly, but they went along with it for the same reason that fairies ever did anything, namely, for the lulz.
~ Lev Grossman
Humbledrum farted mournfully, three distinct notes.
~ Lev Grossman
Oh my fur and whiskers!
~ Lewis Carroll
I build an entire fort out of pillows. I need at least four pillows. I need on each side, I need one normal usage pillow for the back of my head, and I need another pillow just in case.
~ Charlie Worsham
I think my biggest appeal for fans is probably the fact that I'm honest. I'm up front about who I am. I'm a little naughty. I have a naughty side and everybody knows that. But I know when to use that and when not to.
~ John Barrowman
I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
~ Johnny Carson
Got the rocket-propelled liquorice launcher handy?
~ Jasper Fforde
Poppy was now almost well. She still slept more than usual, but when she wasn't sleeping she tromped around the doctor's house pulling spoons off the table and spilling cups of water and crumpling pages of books. That is, she was almost her old self.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
As soon as I got funny, I killed any majestic intentions in my work.
~ William Wegman
Well, I like to have fun at work.
~ John Malkovich
I have a very strong work ethic, and I'm very grateful for that. But I think there was a moment when I realized, "Oh, I can play a little as well."
~ Carla Gugino
I used to work at a puppy nursery.
~ Channing Tatum