Play Quotes - page 3

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. (Matthew Arnold)
The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day. View quote
Dr. Seuss
The world is a stage and the play is badly cast. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do? View quote
Harry Dean Stanton
Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life. View quote
Neil Simon
Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process. View quote
Peter Shaffer
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. View quote
Bill Watterson
This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. View quote
Alan Watts
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. (John Muir)
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play. View quote
John Steinbeck
It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something. View quote
Duke Ellington
I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine. View quote
Bobby Fischer
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews. View quote
Sandy Koufax
I don't suppose that applies so much to other physicists; I think it's a peculiarity of myself that I like to play about with equations, just looking for beautiful mathematical relations which maybe don't have any physical meaning at all. Sometimes they do. View quote
Paul Dirac
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. View quote
Nelson Algren
Don't play for safety. It's the most dangerous thing in the world. (Hugh Walpole)
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. View quote
Thomas Sowell
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God. View quote
Henry Kissinger