Quotes About Playfulness

Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.

I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.

I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'

I played soccer, and I was the kid who ran the wrong way, or I was pretending to be some sort of zebra and I would flail my arms and kick up my legs.

Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.

Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

As a kid I did enjoy building things; learned quickly how to make gun powder. I built sleighs, forts, houses in the back yards of houses.

Success, for me, is being able to wake up in the morning and feel like a 12 year old.

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

I am classically trained in French pastry, but I am American and have a natural curiosity and playfulness that comes through in my cooking. I like to present flavors that people are familiar with in unique combinations and forms that may surprise them.

While I love dancing and I am trained in certain forms, I can tell you that I dance better with my daughter because we dance like there is no one watching us.

I'll do almost anything for cake - even trample little children!

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

Kicking off my shoes, I climed in beside him. I eased toward him. His body radiated heat in the bed. I relaxed, inching closer, burrowing the tip of my nose against his back, savoring the clean smell of his skin, fresh from the shower. His voice rumled through his back toward me. "Hey, your nose is cold." I grinned ahainst his skin. "How about my feet?" I wedged them between his calves. He hissed. "Get some socks on, woman.

What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.

life is a ball we should play with it !

They all live too far away," sighed Mama as she watched lonesome Sister pick up her trusty jump rope and start jumping with a friendly frog.

Tierna, esbelta. graciosa, encantadora, juguetona y coqueta. aquella muchacha de diecinueve años se convierte desde el primer momento en la diosa del rococó, el prototipo de la moda y del gusto dominantes

Art is childhood, after all," wrote Rilke

Fun is never gone because life is fun.

Don't disrespect the sword marshmallow.

But the innocence of a child will bring you back and give you the shield of joy with which to protect yourself.

Mizzy has, again, wandered into the garden, like a child who feels no fealty to adult conversation.

But the quest to preserve your brain is not just about avoiding something that's scary. It's also about preserving and extending youth, and youthful curiosity, learning, playfulness, and relationship building.