Quotes About Playfulness

At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.

C'est pour l'amusette et pour le calmant du cÅ"ur et ça suffit quand je me joue pour moi, parce que je sais déjà, et que ça tombe sur un morceau de mon cÅ"ur qui est sensible comme un Å"il malade. L'autre, c'est pour le sérieux et pour la guérison de l'homme.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.

Why don't I just give you a pair of my panties to hang around your neck? Then whenever you feel jealous, you can wave them at whoever's pissing you off.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

I think skipping could be the answer to many of our adult health problems.

By protecting your nervous system and keeping you focused, laughter and play offer you opportunities to thrive even in inhospitable environments.

Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha!

Well you improvise with some people better than with others… [Mike Nicholls and I] had the same kind of playfulness. We enjoy the same kind of pretend. As kids do. You know. If he had come and said: 'I'm a doctor, are you sick?' I would have said, if I was kid: 'I don't feel good'. Because I wouldn't have said: 'Whaddya mean?' I would have known what he was doing. We were very childish for our age.

We often tend to ignore how much of a child is still in all of us.

Every try to take a toy away from a toddler? They don't like that, do they? They start kicking and screaming. Best way to take a toy away from a toddler is distract the kid, give him something else to play with. Instead of trying to forcefully take thoughts out of your mind, give your mind something better to play with.

my work loves me as much as I love it—that it wants to play with me as much as I want to play with it—and that this source of love and play is boundless.

He noticed that his children felt fully entitled to make up songs all the time, and when they were done with them, they would toss them out "like little origami things, or paper airplanes.

Percy romped up and dropped a sadly mangled, dead frog at her feet, then backed away and sat proudly by his prize, looking at Miss Greaves as if expecting praise. She absently ruffled the spaniel's ears.

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

Month of sacrifice and month of playfulness. Month of restoration, of fertility-festivity. Month when the earth and the buds are already open, the creatures asleep for the winter have woken and are already breeding, the birds have already built their nests, birds that this time last year didn't exist, just bringing to life the birds that'll replace them this time next year. Spring-cuckoo month, grass-month.

the whole point of Bagatelle is that you trifle with the stories that people think are set in stone.

Nine-year-old girls are perfect humans,

It's not that children are little scientists but that scientists are big children.

Hamish smiled and rubbed his hands together. "Sure we can. What do you say? Pigs in a Blanket?" He leaned over the cool counter and raised his eyebrows at Gabrielle. "The only way I'll get under a blanket with you is if both of us are on fire," she told him.

Do you want to hold it?' she asked, dangling the padded envelope in front of Hale with two fingers. 'No.' 'Do you want to touch it and kiss it and wear it around your neck?' 'Don't be silly,' he told her. 'Everyone knows green isn't my color.

Where's the fun in that?