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Quotes About Playfulness

tolerated playfulness at church not at all. At every Mass, she wore her game face for a crucifixion as though she were an actual eyewitness to the death of Jesus each time she knelt in her pew.
~ Pat Conroy
She [Kane] and Axis performed the ancient ritual of flinging their toys at one another's heads, and in that moment recognized a common destiny. They became inseparable.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
He felt he was about to experience again some ancient, delicious childhood moment that the steam calliope's sour hollowness, the stitching hurdy-gurdy accompaniment, and the drum-and-cymbal crash brought almost to the margin of his grasp.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Cade, this is foolish. I look like a beached whale. Allow me some decency. Instead, Cade flung the covers to the floor and straddled her legs, leaning over to rest his ear against her stomach. I think he speaks Apache, but I can't understand a word he says. Lily laughed softly and tried to push him away.
~ Patricia Rice
Jump in the air! Fall in the dirt. Just make sure no one gets hurt! Go…Moose!
~ Dan Gutman
Door's open!" she shouted. She was in her underwear, lying on the floor, arms outstretched and legs up against the couch. She tilted her head back and looked at me upside down. "Charlie, darling! Why are you standing on your head?
~ Daniel Keyes
I was not kicking Brady; I was just loving him with my boot.
~ Claire, age 4
Life is much too serious to be taken seriously.
~ Vicki Lawrence
Measure your success according to fun and creativity.
~ Anita Roddick
I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
~ Billy Connolly
I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
~ Ian Botham
As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
Childhood has no necessary connection with age.
~ Austin O'Malley
I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.
~ Roald Dahl
Avoid being a 'groan' up.
~ James Simpson
He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window.
~ Wilkie Collins
Who makes you Storyteller? You do. You are . Go play.
~ Will Hindmarch
Not fair let me see your anal gland pretty please with a cherry on top!
~ William Golding
Anybody want a peanut?
~ William Goldman
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
~ China Mieville
The playwright Rose Franken said, "Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
~ Chris Bell
Mary had written the names of her thirty-one children on brown luggage labels and looped them through the top buttonholes of their overcoats. Of course the children had exchanged labels with one another the second her back was turned. They were only human, even if they hadn't yet made the effort to become tall.
~ Chris Cleave
You can interact with a refrigerator: open the door and the light inside turns on. Close the door and the little light goes off. But how many people do you see standing in front of their refrigerators, opening and closing the doors, laughing?
~ Chris Crawford
Actually, it's a new word—one I invented and wrote down with my frindle!
~ Chris Grabenstein