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Quotes About Playfulness

Behaving never got anybody anywhere fun
~ C.E. Murphy
the day you stopped appreciating the sublimely silly things in life was the day you became a dried-up old turd.
~ Candace Bushnell
For now, there's nothing to do but strap on an attitude and act like I'm having a ball.
~ Carl Hiaasen
The dog was having a grand time. That's the thing about being a Labrador Retriever, you were born for fun. Seldom was your loopy, freewheeling mind cluttered by contemplation and never at all by somber worry. Every day was a romp. What else could there possibly be to life? Eating was a thrill, pissing was a treat, shitting was a joy. And licking your own balls? Bliss!
~ Carl Hiaasen
A poem is a piece of semiotic sport, in which the signifier has been momentarily released from its grim communicative labours and can disport itself disgracefully. Freed from a loveless marriage to a single meaning, it can play the field, wax promiscous, gambol outrageously with similar unattached signifiers. If the guardians of conventional morality knew what scandalous stuff they were inscribing on their tombstones, they would cease to do so immediately.
~ Terry Eagleton
AAaargwannawannaaaagongongonaargggaaaaBLOON! which is the traditional sound of a very small child learning that with balloons, as with life itself, it is important to know when not to let go of the string. The whole point of balloons is to teach small children this.
~ Terry Pratchett
WHAT FOR IS THIS BOX PADDED? IS IT TO BE SAT ON? CAN IT BE THAT IT IS CAT-FLAVOURED?
~ Terry Pratchett
Now we sing dis stupid song! Sing it as we run along! Why we sing dis we don't know! We can't make der words rhyme prop'ly!
~ Terry Pratchett
It doesn't take a lot to interest goats.
~ Terry Pratchett
Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves.
~ Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.
~ Craig Brown
We want to let our play be the judges.
~ Dan Quinn
I drove my mother crazy because I'd juggle the apples in the fruit bowl and take a bite out of one or two.
~ Colin Donnell
When I was a kid, I used to love it when one of my friends would jump out from behind a door and try to scare me. I always did the same thing in response.
~ Patrick Carman
I had a lot of energy, and my mom decided to look for a place where I can spend the energy, because I was jumping on the couch and furniture, and I was jumping on the top of the things in the house.
~ Nadia Comaneci
Fact about me - I love jumping over/into things.
~ Josh Gondelman
It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch.
~ Karlie Kloss
It's fun to just be an awful human being.
~ Colleen Ballinger
At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.
~ Thom Yorke
I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.
~ Robert Bloch
I was really inspired by keeping alive these things of my childhood.
~ Tom Noddy
I can be quite serious sometimes so laughing is key.
~ Emily VanCamp
It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
~ Garth Brooks
It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.
~ Chris Colfer