Play Quotes - page 4

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)

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Henry Kissinger

The fountain of death makes the still waters of life play.

Rabindranath Tagore

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Mark Twain

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

Federico Fellini

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

Arthur Miller

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

Jean Cocteau

If we don't play God, who will?

James D. Watson

You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.

Alfred Brendel

Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.

Charlie Chaplin

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth. (Barbara Stanwyck)

All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the quarries. Under cover, they play their part well; but in open and exposed situations the frost and rime make them crumble, and they go to pieces. On the seacoast, too, the salt eats away and dissolves them, nor can they stand great heat either.

Vitruvius

If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.

Paul Schrader

I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge.

Shawn Ashmore

I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.

Alton Brown

I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper air-planes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart.

Niall Horan

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Warren Beatty

I don't play in any tournaments to come second best.

Andy Murray

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

Charlie Parker

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.

Groucho Marx

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. (Jawaharlal Nehru)

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

Thelonious Monk

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Jean Piaget

We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.

James Thurber

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found.

William James

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