Quotes About Playfulness

Any teacher in the arts and sciences has to maintain a sense of childlikeness to be truly inventive.

I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

The act of writing a song involves a degree of letting go of yourself, and that's very much being a child.

We play make-believe and dress up for a living. One goes, one doesn't go, whatever. I don't understand how you can get bitter or jaded. We're just so lucky to get to do this.

I grew up with four brothers. I used to play sports with them. And I liked wearing their clothes. I'd run around in T-shirts, jeans, and baseball caps.

Jerry and I always felt that the character was enjoying himself. He was having fun: he wasn't taking himself seriously. It was always a lark for him, as you can see in my early drawings.

I've always liked historic jewellery that's got a kind of quirkiness or playfulness to it; I like that it's not too serious.

I think the secret to what Jim Henson did, ultimately, is that he understood how to cut through to the... I know this sounds corny... but the child inside of you.

My friends always joke that I run on batteries.

My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes.

Todo le recibe como si le esperase desde siempre, y puede mirar a los perros y a los gatos frente a frente, lo cual nosotros no hacemos nunca. El niño pasa del sueño a la vigilia dentro de una misma palabra, sin ruptura, sin trauma, y va por la casa despertando a lo que siempre estuvo dormido, hasta que él llegó.

The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.

They did the whole lingering gaze thing, following it with the glancing-away, smiling-knowingly routine. She felt vivacious, a feeling she remembered, she was enjoying the self-confidence, the larkiness.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

The woman looked up at Lift. "He's right about that, um..." "Say it," Lift said. "Your Pancakefulness." "Rolls right off the tongue, doesn't it?

A bunny rabbit and a chick went frolicking in the grass together on a sunny day." "A chick . . . baby chicken?" Kaladin said. "And a what?" "Ah, forgot myself for a moment," Wit said. "Sorry. Let me make it more appropriate for you. A piece of wet slime and a disgusting crab thing with seventeen legs slunk across the rocks together on an insufferably rainy day. Is that better?

I've always been very confident in my immaturity.

The woman looked up at Lift. "He's right about that, um…" "Say it," Lift said. "Your Pancakefulness." "Rolls right off the tongue, doesn't it?

Perhaps, unlike you, not all people are accustomed to turning every single item in their lives into a competition," M-Bot said. "Oh, come on," I said. "I'm not that bad." "I recorded you trying to get Kimmalyn to have a tooth-brushing contest the other night in the barracks." "Just a little fun," I said. "Besides, gotta kill that plaque good and dead.

Cody said. "And David…" "Yeah?" "Y'all ever stick your tongue in my ear, and I'll shoot ya in yer bagpipes.

That is sarcasm," Susebron said. "She is quite fond of it.

I remember a very tender moment from that year, when Steve and I were lying on the floor watching Ellen do a series of crazy, arm-flinging, and knee-slapping dances and tumbles. I looked at Steve and said, "Isn't it funny how I just love her that much more for being so vulnerable and uninhibited and goofy. I could never do that. Can you imagine knowing that you're loved like that?" Steve looked at me and said, "I love you exactly like that.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.