Play Quotes

Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part.

~ Oscar Wilde

...That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present.JOURNALIST. And your plans.PLAYER. To play!

~ Mikhail Tal

At an age when most children love to play with toys, he played with weapons.

~ Nawab Shafath Ali Khan

Did I live? The human world is like a vast musical instrument on which we play our individual part while simultaneously listening to the compositions of others in an effort to contribute to the whole. We don't chose whether to engage, only how to; we either harmonize or create dissonance. Our words, our deeds, our very presence create and leave impressions in the minds of others just as a writer makes impressions with their words. Who you are is an unfolding narrative. You came from nothing and will return there eventually. Instead of taking ourselves so seriously all the time, we can discover the playful irony of a story that has never been told in quite this way before. -- Stephen Batchelor, Buddhism Without Beliefs

~ Stephen Batchelor

Through play, children experience a greater confidence in their bodies, surroundings and themselves. They become familiar with what they can and cannot do.

~ Iben Dissing Sandahl

Toys can be anything, children can play all morning with a stone and a plastic bucket. It is about how imaginative conductive and how many applicative possibilities toys offer.

~ Iben Dissing Sandahl

As always we could talk... over and over... here I am locked in time, so far I have plenty of it.

~ Deyth Banger

Memories come back... the whole beginng comes out with a new end.

~ Deyth Banger

You play on the ice... you get what you should get.

~ Deyth Banger

When one's craft is rooted in strong relationship, he or she lures the into becoming a part of the show.

~ Val Uchendu

By manipulating the physical configuration of [any situation], you make it produce a subset of the infinite pattern of [possibilities]. And even if you don't know how to play [above situation], you can still play with it.

~ Ian Bogost

To be poetic is how u get somebody as a girl around you...Dexter: You seem uncertain. It's uncomfortable, isn't it? Just when you think you've answered all the questions, another one smacks you in the face. Life, life, life. Life is just like that. Which is why I prefer death.But in the end some people play well their role others can't play it.

~ Deyth Banger

That one has to be playing in order to be playing a game seems equally implausible. When professional athletes are performing in assigned games for wages, although they are certainly playing games, we are not at all inclined to conclude from that fact that they are without qualification playing. For we think of professional athletes as working when they play their games and as playing when they go home from work to romp with their children.

~ Bernard Suits

Cascandowhy not merely the despaired ofoccasion ofwordshedis it not better abort than be barrenthe hours after you are gone are so leadenthey will always start dragging too soonthe grapples clawing blindly the bed of wantbringing up the bones the old lovessockets filled once with eyes like yoursall always is it better too soon than neverthe black want splashing their facessaying again nine days never floated the lovednor nine monthsnor nine livessaying againif you do not teach me I shall not learnsaying again there is a lasteven of last timeslast times of begginglast times of lovingof knowing not knowing pretendinga last even of last times of sayingif you do not love me I shall not be lovedif I do not love you I shall not lovethe churn of stale words in the heart againlove love love thud of the old plungerpestling the unalterablewhey of wordsterrified againof not lovingof loving and not youof being loved and not by youof knowing not knowing pretendingpretendingI and all the others that will love youif they love youunless they love you

~ Samuel Beckett

...So to be fast to don't be long and to try to be short... If you want to play the best game, create it - make the rules, make what they will do... That's how I do it. I make people to play my games and then often loooose!

~ Deyth Banger

A creative invitation is a combination of materials and context that intrigue children with a suggestion of play.

~ Rachelle Doorley

Mama:...you can keep trying. You can get brave and try some more. You don't have to give up.Jessie: I'm NOT giving up. This IS the other thing I'm trying. And I'm sure there are some other things that might work, but MIGHT work isn't good enough any more. I need something that WILL work. THIS will work. That's why I picked it.

~ Marsha Norman

Play invites participation.

~ Brian Goodwin

After graduating early from high school, I carefully listened to the quarterback during my first play in college spring ball. My mind was on the very basics of football: alignment, assignment, and where to stand in the huddle. The quarterback broke the huddle and I ran to the line, meeting the confident eyes of a defensive end—6-foot-6, 260- pound Matt Shaughnessy.I was seventeen, a true freshman, and he was a 23-year-old fifth-year senior, a third-round draft pick. Huge difference between the two of us. Impressing the coach was not on my mind. Survival was. “Oh, Jesus,” I said. I wasn’t cursing. I was praying for help.Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray ( James 5:13).That day Matt came off the ball so fast. Bam! Next thing I knew, I was flat on my back, thrown to the ground. I got up and limped back to the huddle.Four years later...standing on the sidelines in my first NFL game, bouncing on my toes, waiting for my chance to go in, one of the tight ends went down. My time to shine! Where do I stand? Who do I have? I look up and meet the same eyes I met on my first play in college football.Matt Shaughnessy! ...

~ Jake Byrne

You always play it open, don’t you?” he asked.“I’ve never noticed you doing otherwise.”“I thought I was the only one who could afford to.

~ Ayn Rand

How can I get up everyday knowing you had to kill yourself to make it stop hurting and I was here all the time and I never even saw it. And then you gave me this chance to make it better, convince you to stay alive and I couldn't do it. How can I live with myself after this, Jessie?

~ Marsha Norman

Give up trying to convince people who you are, instead confuse them. It is a lot more fun!

~ Shannon L. Alder

The beach is a natural park, without the greenery but the sand is a natural toy.

~ Anuradha Bhattacharyya

We can play, hide and seek if you want, you will hide and i will love you

~ Georgia Kakalopoulou

I don't ever react to a situation. My preference is to reflect upon the circumstances & act as if I were a baby who is in possession of a new toy to play with.

~ Yogesh Datta D.

First sons and daughters seduced to play and party 'til it was too late to realize they were being lead to the slaughter. They discounted the law of moderation.

~ T.f. Hodge

The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard.' The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable.

~ Simon Sinek

In life, we are all playing the game of thrones one way or the other

~ Ikechukwu Izuakor

For us the chief point of interest is the place where the game is played. Generally it is a simple circle, dyutamandalam, drawn on the ground. The circle as such, however, has a magic significance. It is drawn with great care, all sorts of precautions being taken against cheating. The players are not allowed to leave the ring until they have discharged their obligations. But, sometimes a special hall is provisionally erected for the game, and this hall is holy ground. The Mahabharata devotes a whole chapter to the erection of the dicing hall - sabha - where the Pandavas are to meet their prtners. Games, of chance, therefore, have their serious side. They are included in ritual.

~ Johan Huizinga

Oh, Narcissus! My heart beats ink for you.A pulse in every line.It's your eyesmy words want to be read by,your kind of mindthey would be understood by,your heartthey'd be felt by,and then you'd feel the same way that I do,if only these words could be read or heard by you.

~ Steven L. Sheppard

Play with your ideals and laugh at the limitations of your mundane life.

~ Miranda J. Barrett

Gosh, even Roark noticed Dominique.

~ Steven L. Sheppard

To paraphrase the famous Walt saying, Cast Members are there to work so Guests can play.

~ Leslie Le Mon

He's at war with himself. Why doesn't he surrender to his feelings and stop fighting himself? He has hang-ups that I must cut him loose from.

~ Steven L. Sheppard

You really are exotic, for boys in my country, they do not have such pectorals. I like yours.

~ Steven L. Sheppard

I think I know what he is REALLY doing in there... and thinking about ME while doing it. (continuing) But when he thinks of me, he thinks: sister! Think: Byblis! BYBLIS! I don't think of him as my brother, I think of him as CAUNUS!

~ Steven L. Sheppard

CURTAIN CALLThe world is our stage and the final act can highlight or ruin a beautiful play

~ Kamil Ali

Nice enough?” he asked, tendons tightening in his neck like he intended to Hulk out on me. “Did you just call my kiss ‘nice enough’?

~ Kylie Scott

Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods, and defend himself against his enemies, and win in the contest.

~ Plato

If I am a pawn in someone else's chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being shoved at some rook. I'll play my part, damn it, but I want the courtesy of being asked for my consent!

~ Thomm Quackenbush