Play Quotes - Page 26

• O the wind is a faun in the spring time
  When the ways are green for the tread of the May!
  List! hark his lay!
  Whist! mark his play!
  T-r-r-r-l!
  Hear how gay!

  Clinton Scollard

  Spring, Gay, Wind

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• Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.

  Lily Tomlin

  Intelligent, Winning, Cosmos

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• We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Riches, Consuming

  Izaak Walton (1853). “The Complete Angler ... Edited by James Rennie. With illustrations and a portrait”, p.234

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• I have started to record some demos so hopefully in the near future I can play live.

  Luke Treadaway

  Records, Demos, Hopefully

  Interview with Sarah Smith, www.instyle.co.uk. March 7, 2013.

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• I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.

  Jean Kerr

  Character, People, Laughing

  JEAN KERR (1970). “Penny Candy”

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• The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspiration, Perfection, Harps

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• I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

  Marya Mannes

  Party, Writing, Thinking

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

  Erica Jong

  Art, Perfection, Enemy

  Erica Jong (1985). “Parachutes & kisses”, Signet

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• While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries to solve the riddle of time and change, to find an answer to suffering, to reveal love in the very abyss of cruelty and injustice. Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet--whom Plato banned from his Republic--may rise up to save us all.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Fashion, Plato, War

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.

  Agnes Repplier

  Groups, Fairness, Individual

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.

  John Ruskin

  Expression, Mind, Serious

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Stones of Venice”, p.244, John Ruskin

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• My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with it and I can play with it. ... I think your hand concentrates for you. I don't know why it should be so.

  Rebecca West

  Memories, Writing, Thinking

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• The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.

  Rebecca West

  Delightful

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Fountain Overflows”, p.288, Open Road Media

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• The time at length arrives, when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Grief, May, Lips

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.35

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• Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Men

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• If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there, I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Party, Lovely, Want

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• Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

  Iris Murdoch

  Men, Roles, Lines

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.42, Penguin

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• There are those of us who believe that under certain conditions the cruelest thing you can do to people you love is to force them to live. There are those of us who define living not by whether the heart beats and the lungs lift but whether the spirit is there, whether the music box plays.

  Anna Quindlen

  Believe, Heart, Love Is

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• Cupid and my Campaspe play'd
  At cards for kisses - Cupid paid:
  He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows,
  His mother's doves, and team of sparrows;
  Loses them too; then down he throws
  The coral of his lips, the rose
  Growing one's cheek (but none knows how);
  With these, the crystal of his brow,
  And then the dimple of his chin:
  All these did my Campaspe win.
  At last he set her both his eyes -
  She won, and Cupid blind did rise.
  O Love! has she done this for thee?
  What shall, alas! become of me?

  John Lyly

  Love, Mother, Team

  John Lyly, “Cards And Kisses”

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• A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life, and swagger away his own enjoyments; and not to enlarge upon not folly, not to mention the injustice of such a behavior, it is always the sign of a little, unbenevolent temper. It is disease and discredit all over, and there is no more greatness in it, than in the swelling of a dropsy.

  Jeremy Collier

  Blessing, Greatness, Men

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• Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover secrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and often to stagger from the tavern to the stews.

  Jeremy Collier

  Passion, People, Secret

  Jeremy Collier (1728). “Essays upon several moral subjects”, p.161

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• I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Sacrifice, Self, Giving

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.

  Margaret Fuller

  Horse, Essence, Wells

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman”, p.68

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• In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we have closed our eyes, leapt across the yawning abyss, and landed knee-deep in daisies. Even losing has a certain gloomy glamour: the gods of chance are worthy opponents; we have engaged them in hand-to-hand combat and though we lost, at least we shrank not from the contest.

  Barbara Holland

  Eye, Winning, Yawning

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• Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Children, Educational, Luxury

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2004). “Exuberance: The Passion for Life”, p.69, Vintage

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