Quotes about playing

Vera Nazarian - The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

Deyth Banger -

Why am I anti-social?? Hey GreenWind can you answer me, little black biatch that I don't go out makes me anti social? How about the people which can't cross the street, everyday talking about football and playing box. You are one of them, so you are without minded guy, you are dumb, stupid and black biatch. Let's see how now you will win??? Why you are so quite??? Oh,oh I know you don't have what to say!

Richelle E. Goodrich - Secrets of a Noble Key Keeper

And so the game went on in this manner, a throng of children playing keep-away from a bowling ball tossed back and forth between two plump ogres. The air filled with shrieks and cheers and shouts of laughter as daring players thrilled at the sport. That is, all but the few poor souls knocked flat and captured. No laughter rose from behind bars because those in the birdcage knew what was in store. They would soon be lunch for a couple of hungry ogres. Now you might be thinking—didn’t Gavin call

Francesca Lia Block - Wasteland

It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn’t it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn’t playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules.

George Carlin - Brain Droppings

My mother would say, 'Why are you always playing alone?' And I would say, 'I'm not playin', Ma. I'm fuckin' serious!

Sunday Adelaja -

In nations where to most people, the personal responsibility of a citizen towards the nation does not really mean anything, most citizens of such nations end up playing the blame game

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

I am grateful for hands to tickle with. Not so grateful for that process in reverse, however.

Jacques Derrida -

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

Amy Poehler -

Looking silly can be very powerful. People who are committing and taking risks become the king and queen of my prom. People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth and being chased in a fun way.

Bernard Suits -

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.

Bobby Keys -

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.

Derek Jeter -

My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball.

Gary Oldman -

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

Pharrell Williams -

I love making music, though. I love playing.

Edwin Moses -

I always got my work done before playing.

Kenneth Eade - An Evil Trade: A Paladine Political Thriller

I thought it wasn’t winning or losing but how you played the game that matters.” “Just ask anyone who came in second place if that is true.

Wrushank Sorte -

We can't always win the game sometimes we lose but that doesn't mean we should stop playing

Jaci Burton - Playing to Win

I know.” He leaned in and brushed his knuckles across her cheek. “And you can try and pretend it’s okay. That you’re strong and tough and you don’t need anyone. That you didn’t need her. But that’s all bullshit. I know it, and you know it.”Savannah stared at Cole.“You’re so pushy. I told you my story. Why can’t you leave it alone?”“Have you ever dealt with it?”She’d spent so many years holding it all inside.“I’m here right now, aren’t I? I obviously dealt with my past.”“I’m not talking about sur

Oscar Wilde -

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Ashleigh Slater - Team Us: Marriage Together

Marriage as a team means working and playing together toward a winning season.

John Corbett -

I'm sick of playing romantic leads.

Neal Stephenson - A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

It had come from one of two corgis who were even now slamming their preposterous bodies into each other not far away, trying to roll each other over, which runs contrary to the laws of mechanics even in the case of corgis that are lean and trim, which these were not.This struggle, which appeared to be only one skirmish in a conflict of epochal standing, had driven all lesser considerations, such as guarding the gate, from the combatants' sphere of attention...

Deyth Banger -

I LIKE FIRE... I LIKE THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF IT... I JUST COULDN'T STOP MYSELF FROM PLAYING WITH... - DOES it mean that I am a serial killer?(People say that the beginning of a serial killer is - arsonist)

Clementine von Radics -

I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I have a paper body. You will meet a girl with a softer voice and stronger arms and she will not have violent secrets or an affection for red wine or eyes that never stay dry. You will fall into her bed and I’ll go back to spending Friday nights with boys who never learn my last name.

Anthony T. Hincks -

If mankind was playing a baseball game, he would still be choosing his lineup after the game was over.

Deyth Banger -

... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far that was well played game.

William Glasser -

The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

When you are doing things for the right reasons, you do not need to play by the rules, because there are no rules for a creator walking the path of love.

Criss Jami - Healology

Few endeavors, if any at all, I find to be inherently mature or inherently immature. Maturity is neither defined by one's particular preferences nor by one's particular activities; rather, it is defined by the strength of one's character.

William Kamkwamba - The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

Although Geoffrey, Gilbert and I grew up in this small place in Africa, we did many of the same things children do all over the world, only with slightly different materials. And talking with friends I've met from America and Europe, I now know this is true. Children everywhere have similar ways of entertaining themselves. If you look at it this way, the world isn't so big.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Children playing while in the background the TV blares with screams, gunfire and rape-murder scenes. It seeps in.

Victor Shamas - The Way of Play: Reclaiming Divine Fun & Celebration

Meditators dream of attaining the single-pointed focus that young children experience naturally when they play. Spiritual aspirants long for the rapture that defines moments of pure delight.

Victor Shamas -

Play is a sacred act. When we are playing, the essence of all creation flows freely through us. We are expressing our true nature and connecting with the very core of our existence. Nothing is more spiritual than that.

Victor Shamas - The Way of Play: Reclaiming Divine Fun & Celebration

When we 'lose ourselves' in play, we find something greater--the nameless, formless, and mysterious essence of all creation.

Victor Shamas -

Play is my Way. Fun is my destiny. Love and joy are my religion.

Darnell Lamont Walker -

There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.

Pushpa Rana - Just the Way I Feel

Playing is more than the act of judging the possibility of defeat or victory, playing is the probability of hope we will have victory.

Ryan Lilly -

The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with.

Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls

Each person must implement their preferred problem solving method to address existential questions pertaining to life and death, living and loving, working and playing, resting and restructuring.

Debasish Mridha -

In the soul of a lover, it is always spring where flowers of ecstasy are always blooming. Music of love is always playing.

Sandeep N. Tripathi -

Ego said, 'treat me like a game and I will show you how it's played'; Soul replied, 'ego can never lose; it is always a winner because ego is playing against itself [ego is me; soul is we]'.

Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls

All of life is an amphitheater where we each serve as an appreciative member of the audience until the sublime play ends with our death. The chapters and verses in our life story reflect what we value – how appreciative we are for our time to work, play, laugh, cry, and create.

Sunday Adelaja -

The church and all Christians need to pray, but without playing an active part, it is impossible to impact the country