Quotes About Playfulness

Anyone can be passionate but it takes real lovers to be silly.

There was Sheila Walker who was six, and who, I am ashamed to say, Jean and I used to terrorize. She did ask for it - she grizzled and told tales - but still, we should not have fed her on dandelion leaves and then told her they were deadly poison. I see that now. At the time, it seemed like a good idea.

A few languid clouds moved inland over our heads. A little high plane was gamboling among them like a terrier in a henyard.

Gotta remind yourself to have more fun. Play, dance, and laugh.

Is this Niamh woman as …" He gestured to Rose with a vague wave of his hand. "As awesome as me?" Rose answered, glaring at him. "Yeah, she is." "That wasn't the word I was thinking of.

A walk with a two-year-old is very Zen; it is not about the end but the journey. He needs to pet the dog someone is walking; to roll down the slight incline to the church basement, and then roll again, and again, and again; to remind me of the place where the wasps (he calls them bees) live, then zoom past it.

Opening up their sack, the children chorus, "Oh Snowman, what have we found?" They lift out the objects, hold them up as if offering them for sale: a hubcap, a piano key, a chunk of pale-green pop bottle smoothed by the ocean. A plastic BlyssPluss container, empty; a ChickieNobs Bucket O'Nubbins, ditto. A computer mouse, or the busted remains of one, with a long wiry tail.

Arms up in the air now; let's pretend we're trees.

Yo sólo juego a ser inconstante —dije por fin—. Por dentro soy una roca. Siempre leal, siempre firme. Pero un poco de juego es la sal de la vida y mantiene a raya a mis enemigos.

Okay," I say at last. "But you have to teach me how to do animals. I can't keep myself from wilting when I'm a plant, so I've been afraid to try a living form." She laughs and shifts into the shape of a large golden retriever and almost licks me to death before I can make her stop.

I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.

As for me I will follow the path of the pink bunnies.

One time, Niall sat on the floor for hours trying to find a way of putting his M&M's in alphabetical order.

There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time

I'm the type of person that likes to give people a hard time, and I enjoy doing little pranks. If I see someone getting a little aroused I have to keep pushing that button.

If I got a girlfriend, I'd feed her playfully all of the time.

Time spent with a cat is never wasted.

One of my secrets is to joke all the time.

Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.

I'm seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There's no black and white to it. But sometimes I'm seeing it like I'm 4.

It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.

There are many thrilling things about being a grandmother—who knew it would be so satisfying at my age to put my right foot in, to take my right foot out, to put my right foot in, and to shake it all about?

perfectionism will ruin your writing, blocking inventiveness and playfulness and life force

inventiveness and playfulness and life force (these are words we are allowed to use in California).