Play Quotes

For us the chief point of interest is the place where the game is played. Generatly 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

And I was a Child again, watching the bright World. But the Spell broke when at this Juncture some Gallants jumped from the Pitt onto the Stage and behaved as so many Merry-Andrews among the Actors, which reduced all to Confusion. I laugh'd with them also, for I like to make Merry among the Fallen and there is pleasure to be had in the Observation of the Deformity of Things. Thus when the Play resumed after the Disturbance, it was only to excite my Ridicule with its painted Fictions, wicked Hypocrisies and villainous Customs, all depicted with a little pert Jingle of Words and a rambling kind of Mirth to make the Insipidnesse and Sterility pass. There was no pleasure in seeing it, and nothing to burden the Memory after: like a voluntarie before a Lesson it was absolutely forgotten, nothing to be remembered or repeated.

~ Peter Ackroyd

Aleksar Greene was a boy I used to play with, he was my imaginary friend.

~ Shawn Lukas

Aleksar Greene was a boy I used to play with. He was my imaginary friend.

~ Shawn Lukas

It's human, we all put self interest first.

~ Euripides

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

~ Euripides

Old loves are dropped when new ones come

~ Euripides

Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

~ Euripides

Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.

~ Euripides

In childbirth grief begins.

~ Euripides

...for nothing is more boring than being forced to play.

~ Angela Carter

Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

~ Euripides

To amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously.

~ Aristotle

You'll like it less when you hear what they've been building. It's a big raised platform at the end of the square about two metres above the ground, with steps running up to it.''Like a stage?' Erak suggested. 'Maybe they're going to put on a play.''Or an execution,' Horace said.

~ John Flanagan

I hate parties.And a wedding is the biggest party of all.All the guests arrived and Orpheus is taking a shower.He's always taking a shower when the guests arrive so he doesn't have to greet them.Then I have to greet them.A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.

~ Sarah Ruhl

Orpheus never liked words. He had his music. He would get a funny look on his face and I would say what are you thinking about and he would always be thinking about music.

~ Sarah Ruhl

Our play is not something separate from our spirituality, it is itself a sign of the presence of God in the world.

~ Ken Shigematsu

If we were in a restaurant sometimes Orpheus would look sullen and wouldn't talk to me and I thought people felt sorry for me. I should have realized that women envied me. Their husbands talked too much.But I wanted to talk to him about my notions. I was working on a new philosophical system. It involved hats.

~ Sarah Ruhl

hornier than a bunny on ecstasy

~ Kyle Adams

People used to play with toys.Now the toys play with them.

~ Idries Shah

Play hard. Play, play, play like your life depends on it. Because it does.

~ Dean Koontz

c. “So, hunny, don’t waste your time trying to label or define me…’cause I’m not what I was ten years ago or ten minutes ago. I’m all of that and then some. And whereas I can’t live inside yesterday’s pain, I can’t live without it.

~ George C. Wolfe

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

~ Jimmy Dean

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

~ Tiger Woods

If you're going to have a bad attitude, you may as well not even tee it up that week because you probably won't play good anyways.

~ Jason Day

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

~ Shane Warne

That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.

~ Dan Quinn

Ben Schwartzwalder was a decent guy, but he was from another era. He was like a Marine, with a real army attitude. He thought there was only one way to play football, and that was the rough way.

~ Jim Brown

An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.

~ Zubin Mehta

It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude.

~ Lita Ford

There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.

~ Len G. Murray

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

~ Joshua Bell

FIFA stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well.

~ Sepp Blatter

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

~ Robert Schumann

I'm open to play for anybody that would give me respect, treat me the right way, and actually going to make me feel comfortable.

~ Pedro Martinez

When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss.

~ Robin Gibb

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

~ Max Weinberg

I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing.

~ Bobby Keys

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

~ Julio Cortázar

When I was 20, the idea of having a play on anywhere was just beyond my dreams.

~ Tom Stoppard