Playful Quotes

131 Playful quotes by 108 unique authors

Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly depicts the ways we confound… — Unknown Author
When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful. — Edward Abbey
We belong to the One mastering God: you belong to the republic of playful gods. — Maurice Samuel
We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more… — John Cleese
All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has a way of… — Unknown Author
It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch together piecemeal, and… — Robert Musil
Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with the ego is… — Fritjof Capra
Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning. — Charles Alexander Eastman
I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms, even though that… — M.C. Escher
Music has shaped men’s fashion and transposed in a playful and witty manner its riding or military heritage. It is difficult to figure out who… — Hedi Slimane
The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence. — William Henry Hudson
Math is the beautiful, rich, joyful, playful, surprising, frustrating, humbling and creative art that speaks to something transcendental. It is worthy of much exploration and… — Unknown Author
As an audience member, I like watching Rupert as an actor when he's most playful, ... I think Rupert is really adept at comedy I… — Benjamin Bratt
With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents of East Europe's… — Charles S. Maier
The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up… — Johan Huizinga
No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is any event entirely… — David Abram
Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion. (...) The whole… — Victoria Glendinning
A game is a problem-solving activity, approached with a playful attitude — Jesse Schell
Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and… — Annie Dillard
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. — Richard Bach
What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat playful puppies into… — Isak Dinesen
BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE. Acting on the knowledge that the most efficacious form or devotion to the Divine Wow is tinctured with playful or mischievous behavior that… — Rob Brezsny
A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She… — Gail Sheehy
We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality… — Walter Brueggemann
Choose love and don't ever let fear turn you away from your playful heart — Jim Carrey

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