Play Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of the fatherland. We have never been involved in a decision to annex the territory of a neighboring country, or to fight for foreign markets on distant shores. These are the games men play, not us. We want to be neither oppressors nor oppressed. The women's revolution is the final revolution of them all.

  Susan Brownmiller

  Country, War, Fighting

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• A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day!

  George du Maurier

  Good Day, Littles

  George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.287, Booklassic

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• I never like to play for myself, and that is why I don't own a grand piano. To play for yourself is like looking at yourself in a mirror. I like to practice; that is to work at a task. But to play there must be an audience. New things happen when you play for an audience. You don't know what will occur. You make discoveries with the music, and it is always the first time. It is an exchange, a communion.

  Hephzibah Menuhin

  Music, Piano, Mirrors

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• Sometimes, when I play music, I feel as if I am giving life. ... It isn't just notes on the paper anymore: you are recreating the thought, transmitting it. It becomes shareable, but it can never be kept. You go through and at the same time you let go of the experience. That is part of the wonder of music: it can never be kept; it is ephemeral and at the same time enduring.

  Hephzibah Menuhin

  Music, Letting Go, Giving

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• I feel inauthentic at a party. ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one plays 'roles.' One isn't fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn't (can't) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn't literally tell lies.

  Susan Sontag

  Truth, Lying, Party

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.317, Macmillan

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• In a mystery, you must play fair by giving all the clues, but disguise them by immediately distracting the reader with something else.

  Joan Lowery Nixon

  Giving, Mystery, Clue

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• Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd
  And wonder'd at the work herself had made.

  Charles Churchill

  Listening, Wonder, Made

  Charles Churchill (1892). “The Poetical Works of Charles, Churchill”

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• The stage I chose--a subject fair and free--
  'Tis yours--'tis mine--'tis public property.
  All common exhibitions open lie,
  For praise or censure, to the common eye.
  Hence are a thousand hackney writers fed;
  Hence monthly critics earn their daily bread.
  This is a general tax which all must pay,
  From those who scribble, down to those who play.

  Charles Churchill

  Lying, Eye, Exhibitions

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.43

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• But alas for the dreams that round us play! / For the plans of mortal making! / And alas for the false and fickle day / That looked so fair at waking!

  Phoebe Cary

  Dream, Disappointment, Fickle

  Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”

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• All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No one will ever make a tragedy - and that is as well, for one could not bear it - whose grief is that the principals never met.

  Mary Renault

  Grief, Fate, Sorrow

  Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”

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• A cat is, by and large, sophisticated and complex, and capable of creating three-act plays around any single piece of action.

  Gladys Taber

  Cat, Creating, Three

  Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”

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• There's no sauce for play like work.

  Edna Ferber

  Sauce

  Edna Ferber (2014). “A Peculiar Treasure: An Autobiography”, p.288, Vintage

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• When a kid plays football before he attends a class, something is wrong.

  Joe Paterno

  Football, Kids, Class

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• There's always a chance. Somebody has got to want me, and if they don't want me, then what? I want to play. I want to do what I want to do.

  Emmitt Smith

  Nfl, Want, Chance

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• I'm going to make the playoffs. You can believe that. To never play in the playoffs, that will not be my legacy.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Believe, Nfl, Legacy

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• I am glad that I was given the chance. I knew I could still play at a high level.

  Kurt Warner

  Nfl, Levels, Chance

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• My job is to play well offensively and help my team score points. So I feel very responsible every time we lose a game.

  Peyton Manning

  Jobs, Team, Games

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• You're always going to be mad about a bad play.

  Colin Kaepernick

  Nfl, Mad

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• I want to be the best player to ever play this game.

  Adrian Peterson

  Player, Nfl, Games

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