Playing Quotes

“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
― Jacques Derrida

“One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I have a paper body. You will meet a girl with a softer voice and stronger arms and she will not have violent secrets or an affection for red wine or eyes that never stay dry. You will fall into her bed and I’ll go back to spending Friday nights with boys who never learn my last name. ”
― Clementine von Radics

“There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“My mother would say, 'Why are you always playing alone?' And I would say, 'I'm not playin', Ma. I'm fuckin' serious!”
― George Carlin, Brain Droppings

“THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINS


Laugh, I tell you
And you will turn back
The hands of time.

Smile, I tell you
And you will reflect
The face of the divine.

Sing, I tell you
And all the angels will sing with you!

Cry, I tell you
And the reflections found in your pool of tears -
Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterday
To guide you through the fears of tomorrow.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“A true friend doesn't have guts; they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“ “Shut up!” I say, laughing hysterically. Alice transforms back to an inanimate jade piece as I toss her. My aim is off and she plops into Morpheus’s tea, splattering him and the chessboard.
With a graceful sweep of his hand, he retracts his magic. Tea drizzles down his face as his inky eyes turn up to mine, alight with something both dangerous and daring, shifting moods faster than I can blink.
“Careful, plum.” It’s his deep cockney accent now. He wipes his face with a napkin. “Don’t start something you have no intention of finishing.”
“Oh, I’ll finish it,” I say—spurred by the dark confidence fluttering at the edge of my psyche. The side of me that knows I’m his match in every way. “And you know I’ll win.” I rise from my chair to scope out the room for weapons, vaguely aware of the prisms of glittery light reflected off my skin onto the surroundings.
“I know I’ll let you win,” Morpheus says, standing up. “I won’t even put up a fight.” His white-toothed smile spans to something forebodingly provocative, as though mimicking the spread of his wings. “Well, perhaps a small one, just for sport.” ”
― A.G. Howard, Ensnared

“I am grateful for hands to tickle with. Not so grateful for that process in reverse, however.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“How many games had Cassian played as a child with Rhys an Azriel, where a long stick had been a stand-in for Gwydion? How many adventures had they imagined, sharing that mythical sword between them as they slew wyrms and rescued damsels?

Never mind that Rhys's particular damsel had slain a wyrm herself and rescued him instead.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

“The secret to our brilliance is that we never stop learning, and the secret to our learning is that we never stop playing.”
― Ben Orlin, Math Games with Bad Drawings: 75 1/4 Simple, Challenging, Go-Anywhere Games―And Why They Matter

“CALVIN:
Look, Hobbes, I got a magic carpet.

HOBBES:
What's so magic about it?

CALVIN:
Magic carpets FLY! You can ride them.

HOBBES:
Isn't this the rug from the hallway?

CALVIN:
Up, Rug!
Up! Up!

CALVIN:
Hey, Look!
It works!
Ok, rug, warp factor five.

HOBBES:
Is this legal?
Do you have your registration and proof of insurance?”
― Bill Watterson, Yukon Ho by Bill Watterson

“Can I play with you?” She eyes my laptop eagerly. “No.” Her pretty mouth curves into a pout. “Why?” “Because.” What are we even going to do? Long division?”
― Ali Hazelwood, Bride

“Do you want to play a game?' He shuffled closer, eyes bright. Reaching into his pocket, he produced some little metal figures. Three silver foxes resting in the middle of his callused palm. Inset chips of peridot sparkled in their eyes.
...
'How do we play?'

'You throw them.' He formed a cage of his hands with the foxes inside, shook it up, and then tossed them into the grass. 'If they land standing, you get ten points. If they land on their backs, you get five points. If they land on their side, no points.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“It feels like being children, like playing. It occurs to me that so many awful things in my life happened before that moment, and so many awful things in his life happened after.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“You’re not part of the team because you’re the field.”

“I’m not sure if you’re trying to tell me that you’re playing me, but that’s what it sounds like.”

He scrubs his hand over his mouth, hiding a smile. “No, that’s not what I mean. What I’m trying to say is you’re the reason we’re a team. We come together for you, meeting on mutual grounds to work toward the finish line, which is making our little family a safe and happy home.”
― Rory Miles, Tainted Power - The Complete Series

“Sometimes winning wasn't about playing fair, but knowing the rules so well that you could exploit discrepancies.”
― Liz Braswell, Part of Your World

“It is important when you receive an aggressive phone call to realize that it may be someone you know that is playing a joke on you!”
― Steven Magee

“I am playing the game of life with the stacked deck of cards I was dealt.”
― Steven Magee

“Playing a game is the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles.”
― Bernard Suits, The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia

“what feels like work to you is playing for others”
― Lenfantvivant

“We are the children of the earth. So, we play and dance with singular intelligence while we learn to discern between light and dark. And then, one day, if we play conscientiously, we might find ourselves in the library of all things where we are instructed by the sun, moon and stars to wake up and to be the marriage of light and dark – unity in shimmering silver – the mirror of the cosmos.”
― Louisa Punt-Fouche, Silvering

“Play often. Play regularly. But never play all the time.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Some plays are best shared with others, while some are best enjoyed alone.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Your family members will not always be around to play with you. Have other external trusted parties.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Innocence dances in the playground of childhood memories.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“You don't scare me baby. My body is too old to run and my mind knows playing with a little fire is good for the soul.”
― Jay Long