Play Quotes: Joyful Musings on the Power of Play

"If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule"

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast"

"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground"

"Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city"

Frank Gehry, Architect

"With foxes we must play the fox"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

"Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising"

Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist

"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball"

Pete Rose, Athlete

"I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything"

Demetri Martin, Comedian

"Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself"

Robert Henri, Artist

"An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything"

Whoopi Goldberg, Actress

"It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep"

John Cage, Composer

"The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

"Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

"The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play"

Richard Strauss, Composer

"The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

"I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies"

Eva Herzigova, Model

"Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"I think that every single person should play sports"

Donovan Bailey, Athlete

"I think I started out trying to be very objective about the flow of the play"

James Rado, Actor

"Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions"

Sunil Gavaskar, Athlete

"We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play"

Pat Williams, Athlete

"God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play"

Link Wray, Musician

"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"If music be the food of love, play on"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"Life must be lived as play"

Plato, Philosopher

"We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent"

Ronald Reagan, President

"It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"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"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things"

George Eliot, Author

"I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music"

David Byrne, Musician

"Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops"

George P. Baker

"When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature"

George P. Baker

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