Play matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose. — Jill Vialet Copy Share Image
My relationship with fashion is playful and very expressive of what I'm feeling at the time. — Phoebe Philo Copy Share Image
Play is the state of mind that we can use in our creative process to our advantage. — Jessica Walsh Copy Share Image
I'm really playful with eyeshadows and love to experiment with colour. — A. J. Odudu Copy Share Image
“I like your nail polish,” you say, your voice playful, as she picks up her yet untouched notebook.” — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it,… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really like. — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play. — Florence Scovel Shinn Copy Share Image
We live in an ironic society where even play is turned into work. But the highest existence is not work; the highest… — Conrad Hyers Copy Share Image
The joys of making a comedy are that it feels very playful and silly, and the energy is totally different because they… — Sophie Rundle Copy Share Image
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of… — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
Of Montreal's early releases were loaded with playful but confessional acoustic tunes, but the band soon embraced glam-rock's freakier side on albums… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
“At some offices, play is becoming increasingly recognized as an important component of success. And I’m not just talking about Ping-Pong tables… — Stuart Brown Copy Share Image
I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and… — James Marsh Copy Share Image
Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I feel like with 'Chuck,' because it was a comedy-based show, it was more cartoon-ish. It was just more playful. We had… — Yvonne Strahovski Copy Share Image
I try to set up a playful atmosphere on the set so that they don't get tired too easily. They know it's… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
Any phrase that suggests play is this domain that's the opposite of work, or the thing that you do when you're done… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of… — James Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“and engage fully with the world. I don’t think it is too much to say that play can save your life. It… — Stuart Brown Copy Share Image
All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman,… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment.… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Dr. Stuart Brown, a psychiatrist and founder of the National Institute for Play, says that we are hardwired to play and that… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
“Aren't you going a little overboard?" I asked, picturing a day ahead of me trying to find these items in a town… — Rhys Bowen Copy Share Image
