Quotes About Playfulness

That's what some grown-ups called Riley and his friends Ben, Briana, Jamal, and Mongo (whose real name was Hubert Montgomery but, because he was so huge, everybody called him "Humongo," which quickly morphed into "Mongo").

Because," said Mr. Lemoncello, "it's a trampoline.

You'll Never Feel as Tall as When You're Ten

continually exposing myself to whatever situation occurs… Gambling as well as gamboling… To exist instead of being an existentialist, to make objects instead of being one

and a whimsical ceramic sugar bowl shaped like an octopus.

I am a clown...and I collect moments.

Ich bin ein Clown und sammle Augenblicke.

Childhood is a short season.

I roll a magazine into a tube and peer at her through it as if it were a telescope...She pushes her beak into it as far as it will go, biting the empty air inside. Putting my mouth to my side of my paper telescope I boom into it: 'Hello, Mabel.' She pulls her beak free. All the feathers on her forehead are raised. She shakes her tail rapidly from side to side and shivers with happiness.

happiness. An obscure shame grips me. I had a fixed idea of what a goshawk was, just as those Victorian falconers had, and it was not big enough to hold what goshawks are. No one had ever told me goshawks played. It was not in the books. I had not imagined it was possible. I wondered if it was because no one had ever played with them. The thought made me terribly sad.

Listen, there's this little girl who makes herself laugh. You hear her from the other room, and when you try to get her to explain, she just says: 'Don't worry about it.' And maybe it's the thief in me, but I think this girl is mine, and that when she and I are around each other, we're giving each other something we've never had, or taking back something we've lost.

One is never sure, watching two cats washing each other, whether it's affection, the taste, or a trial run for the jugular.

A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.

Darling stop being philosophical, it doesn't suit you, it makes your nose red.

Darling stop being philosophical it doesn't suit you, it makes your nose red.

Let's see what you've got—as the actress said to the bishop

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

The problem with growing up," Quentin said, "is that once you're grown up, people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore." "We

Mr. Raney named the porpoises - Sister Woman, and Renford, and Lamar, and St. Elmo - and could recognize them, and call each by its name, even at night, six feet long, some of them, with a million sharp teeth and a naughty grin. Often when he floated past in the boat and watched their playful wheeling, in and out among the cypress knees, he called out to them, "Lamar, we are all alone in the world!" or "Renford, cork is an export product of India!

As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.

I was deeply in love with David Soul from 'Starsky & Hutch' when I was 11 or 12. I used to borrow my mum's peach nighty and put some lipstick on and say I was going on a date with him. I made this little purse and would carry a picture of him in it and say he was my boyfriend.

I love playing around with ideas and turning them into something useful or fun.

To me, the goal of building useless and ridiculous robots is more - I mean, in some way, it's like a personal goal because I think it's really fun, and I think having fun is super important to create things.