Play is the exultation of the possible.

“He felt that,’ Dani said, trembling with joy. ‘He really felt that,’ Sunny squealed. ‘That,’ Leo declared, ‘was artistry.”

— Belinda Kelderhouse

Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling that does…

— John Piper

“...the wind hums low with sweet exultation, sings its lullaby, while you sleep ...”

— John Geddes

Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the…

— Emily Dickinson

Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

Play in curiosity is where everything happens.

— Andrew Zuckerman

I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course…

— James Marsh

Play cannot be defined, because in play all definitions slither, dance, combine, break apart, and recombine.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have accumulated for lives. Now…

— Rajneesh

The playful search for beauty.

— Eva Zeisel

The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

— Anonymous

I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really like.

— Bat for Lashes

I'm always trying to have a good time on set because that's when things happen. That's when you're playful.

— Susan Sarandon

The American people are incredibly generous and even playful when you open yourself up and feed the media beast until it goes away satisfied.

— Krystal Ball

My preference is for people who come to rehearsal and get into the ring. I like a muscular actor who's playful.

— Joe Mantello