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Quotes About Playfulness

I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head-to-toe Gucci and have on a ring that I got from a gumball machine for 50 cents.
~ Sara Blakely
I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
~ Yani Tseng
The average age in our platoon, I'd guess, was nineteen or twenty, and as a consequence things often took on a curiously playful atmosphere, like a sporting event at some exotic reform school. The competition could be lethal, yet there was a childlike exuberance to it all, lots of pranks and horseplay. Like when Azar blew away Ted Lavender's puppy. 'What's everybody so upset about?' Azar said. 'I mean, Christ, I'm just a boy.
~ Tim O'Brien
You look great, he said. Oh, get fucked, she said, grinning.
~ Tim Winton
Klutz Press.
~ Tom Kelley
Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.
~ Tom Robbins
People tend to take everything too seriously. Especially themselves.
~ Tom Robbins
Those who shun the whimsy in life will experience rigormortis before death.
~ Tom Robbins
Personally, I've found maturity an overrated quality except in wine, for both creative artists and lively people in general have much to gain from facing the world with the unsullied vision, flexible responses, and playful sensibilities of a child.
~ Tom Robbins
Behavioral traits such as curiosity about the world, flexibility of response, and playfulness are common to all young mammals but are rapidly lost with the onset of maturity in all but humans. Humanity has , when it has advanced, not because it was sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, and rebellious, and immature.
~ Tom Robbins
Only thieves and children run.
~ Tracy Chevalier
Sólo los ladrones y los niños corren.
~ Tracy Chevalier
Oh yeah. It would be terrible for you to have only one working fang. Your friends might want to call you Lefty
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
She had always found platypuses irresistible proof that God likes a joke as much as anyone else.
~ Kerry Greenwood
Liv, stop it!" hissed Mia. "You look like a lovelorn sheep!" I gave a start. "As bad as that? Oh, that's terrible." I added - and I was to regret it in the course of the day - "If you see me looking like that again, give me a nudge or throw something at me. Promise?" "With pleasure," said Mia, and three hours later, because she always kept her promises, I was black and blue around the ribs and had been hit by assorted flying objects: several chestnuts, a spoon, and a blueberry muffin.
~ Kerstin Gier
I think people need to have fun with whatever they're doing - makeup, their clothes, music, live shows - anything you don't need to take too seriously, don't take too seriously.
~ Kesha
On the beach, they took turns burying one another up to their necks in the sand and then chased each other with jellyfish hanging on the ends of sticks. They stood in the ocean as waves gently broke across their legs while they ate cotton candy that held the slight tang of salt water. If told this kind of happiness was something that could be attained by everyone, the Fangs would not have believed it.
~ Kevin Wilson
Ivy turned. 'He bit you on the neck?' she said, deadpan serious but for her eyes. 'Oh, then it's got to be love. She won't let me bite her neck.
~ Kim Harrison
You laugh at me, Frau Steadman?" Mr. Ollenburger touched his chest, his face twisting into an offended pout, yet his eyes sparkled merrily.
~ Kim Vogel Sawyer
Do you intend to come over here and mount your horse, or are you wanting to stare at my backside for the rest of the day? (Ewan)
~ Kinley MacGregor
Both life and work were a great deal more rewarding when you didn't take them seriously.
~ Kirsten Beyer
The Child's eyes flick back and forth between Kat and me. 'You are the Ones?' he asks skeptically. Kat catches my eye. 'OMG, does this mean I get to be a One, too?' she teases me.
~ Kirsten Miller
Can't hear… call back… good luck…" Nïx, I know you're faking the static." She could picture her sister blowing into her fist directly at the receiver. The static abruptly stopped. Why?" It seemed less rude than the alternative." What's that?" Click.
~ Kresley Cole
Can't hear… call back… good luck…" "Nïx, I know you're faking the static." She could picture her sister blowing into her fist directly at the receiver. The static abruptly stopped. "Why?" "It seemed less rude than the alternative." "What's that?" Click.
~ Kresley Cole