When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I'm really playful with eyeshadows and love to experiment with colour. — A. J. Odudu Copy Share Image
Shaq is pretty mischievous and playful. But he was a great vet to me. He always talked about the big-man alliance and… — Robin Lopez Copy Share Image
You might think you're being cute and playful, but could your actions really be killing your game? — Sharlene05 Copy Share Image
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Love is inconvenient. Love is untidy. Love is relentless, ruthless and rapacious. Done well, it’s hilarious, playful and redemptive.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
“Playful, positive sarcasm is different from negative mean sarcasm, and many people don't know the difference.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough. — Seth Copy Share Image
The American people are incredibly generous and even playful when you open yourself up and feed the media beast until it goes… — Krystal Ball Copy Share Image
Play isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone… — Ian Bogost 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
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
“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
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 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
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
“To be in “play” in this way is one of our concerns to be able to escape self-conscious, intentional activity for comfortable,… — Fernando Flores Copy Share Image
Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity. — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration. — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image
I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them! — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
“Why, Jack-off... You actually have a sense of humor! You should share that playful side more often. Guys really go for it.” — Lorelei James Copy Share Image
The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh. — Frans de Waal 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
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
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
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
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
“I like your nail polish,” you say, your voice playful, as she picks up her yet untouched notebook.” — J.M. Darhower 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
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
Those of us who were on 'Twin Peaks' can very easily make fun of it, but we get along really well, and… — Sheryl Lee Copy Share Image
My preference is for people who come to rehearsal and get into the ring. I like a muscular actor who's playful. — Joe Mantello Copy Share Image
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He'd been baiting me, yes, but there was more. He'd been almost…playful. It was tantamount to being rushed by a lion, and… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
