Quotes About Playfulness

Everything I know I learned from my cat: When you're hungry, eat. When you're tired, nap in a sunbeam. When you go to the vet's, pee on your owner.

Invention: I always wanted to invent something that would move around & make funny noises & would change the world as we know it & I forgot all about that until we had kids & now I see I came pretty close.

There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.

Children had the gift, the second sight, the sixth sense. Sometimes she wondered if most writers were really just children who'd never grown up.

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all, life is a game, not a career.

The boy planted his hands on his hips and a broad smile lit his face. "My name's Peter. Can I play too?

One day, I spent a long time with Isaac drawing a tea party for dinosaurs. On a huge piece of brown packaging paper we drew allosaurs and tyrannosaurs sitting on little chairs, with hind legs politely crossed

And in a way, what could be more rock and roll than lying around on deck being served caviar and champagne off a surfboard? If Keith Moon had lived long enough, he'd have loved it. Although come to that, he might have tried to push the mini-golf buggy into the pool.

As she came alongside the cornfield she giggled, and he heard the music that had emerged from the ring of her laughter

Are you sure you know where you're going? Andrea frowned. Would you like me to pull over and ask that bamboo for directions? I don't know, do you think it will answer? We peered at the bamboo. I think it looks suspicious, Andrea said. Maybe there is a heffalump hiding in it. Andrea stared at me. You know, heffalump? From Pooh Bear? Where do you even get this shit?

Where is Barbie? The female shifter snickered and choked it off. Is there a stripper pole?

He referred to you as his little snack. He's a sweetie.

If I pass out face down in this water, will you fish me out? Will you promise to call me Your Majesty? Hell no. Then I'll have to think about it.

If you don't explain it all to me, I might strangle somebody. Of course, Raphael might like that...

I'm going to kick you in the head when I get home. Repeatedly.

Did you just grab my butt?" I whispered. "What?" "Curran!" "Yes?" I could hear controlled laughter in his voice. Unbelievable. I sped up. "We're tracking ghouls and you're grabbing my butt." "I always make sure to pay attention to important things.

Mad Rogan saw me and smiled. And my mind went right into the gutter.

I once got a letter from a woman who told me she was 90. She said if she were 30 years younger, I would have had to watch out. I guess 60 seems really young when you're 90. She said she would eat me with a spoon.

I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff.

The tattoo on my wrist has the letters 'ES,' which stands for 'elephant shoe.' It's something I used to say when I was younger instead of 'I love you' and it reminds me to remain childlike at times and to not take myself too seriously.

I've known Hillary, and her husband Bill, for more than half of my life. I remember her playing mermaid in the pool with our youngest daughter Sally for hours on family vacations.

As the youngest of six kids, I grew up spending summers on Martha's Vineyard, and I was always topless. All the pictures are of me in jean shorts, no shirt - with my brothers, playing football.

It's OK to stand back. But it's also good to demonstrate that it's fun to be involved. As long as you are willing to say, 'This looks fun. I'd like to try this, too,' your child will mimic your example of openness, playfulness and optimism.