Playground Quotes

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. (Eric Hoffer)
Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. View quote
Shania Twain
The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too. View quote
Billy Corgan
My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings. View quote
Jay London
From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance. View quote
Andrea Hirata
If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground. View quote
Lisa Marie Presley
It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity. View quote
Peter Bart
I've been fascinated by music for as long as I can remember. I was the kid on the playground in the third grade who would tell other kids about Paul Simon or Depeche Mode. View quote
Josh Groban
I try to keep it positive and play it cool, shoot up the playground and tell the kids to stay in school. View quote
Eminem
Although my view is a world-wide one and my area of observation is Europe, the nation closest to my heart is, understandably, my homeland. And it is a fortunate coincidence, fortunate in terms of the explanation of the world, that it is this country which is the clearest example of the playground of destructive development in the whole world. View quote
Pentti Linkola
Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the anonymous. But sometimes - thank goodness - it's nicer than real life. (Susan Orlean)
We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used for boys - and that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce. View quote
Sheryl Sandberg
In fact, of course, science is an unparalleled playground of the imagination. View quote
Daniel Dennett
You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides. View quote
Dennis Rodman
Oh no! Don't drag us away from Antartica and take us to the playground of the rich and famous! Not that briar patch! -Max. View quote
James Patterson
Small players learn to be intuitive, to anticipate, to protect the ball. A guy who weighs 90 kilos doesn't move like one who weighs 60. In the playground I always played against much bigger kids and I always wanted the ball. Without it, I feel lost. View quote
Andres Iniesta
I have always had the sea as my playground. View quote
Alexander Dale Oen
I like to act. I guess letting what you love be what you do is key. I've worked very hard for that to be the case, probably because I'm very lazy and I only want to do things that are fun and I run away from anything that feels like work... Acting for me is like lunch at school... you're just in a playground where you get to pretend and play. View quote
Dichen Lachman
I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground. View quote
Dominic West
As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish. View quote
Eberhard Weber
To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore. (Lakhdar Brahimi)
I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful. View quote
Max Irons
My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground. View quote
Maya Lin
Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our lives inside one form of corporation or another. View quote
Robert D. Kaplan
Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage. View quote
Steve Sabol