Playful Quotes

131 Playful quotes by 108 unique authors

God...made childhood joyous, full of life, bubbling over with laughter, playful, bright and sunny. We should put into their childhood days just as much sunshine… — J.R. Miller
When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young… — Eric Hoffer
You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that… — Thomas Keating
My character Jack in the New York Spring Spectacular is a lot of fun. He's playful, he's full of life. He can make things come… — Derek Hough
O' the blue-bodied cowherd - ever playful in love and war. Don't you fail to see the immensity of his wisdom and light. — Jaggi Vasudev
When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner … a culture of playfulness is closely related to the capacity… — Rosemary Sutcliff
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
I thought if I can do something more playful and light like my play BEYOND THERAPY, it might be a money maker. I think one… — Christopher Durang
I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are playful, hopping around.… — Frans de Waal
Real learning, attentive, real learning, deep learning, is playful and frustrating and joyful and discouraging and exciting and sociable and private all the time, which… — Eleanor Duckworth
I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them! — Roberto Benigni
A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s… — Richard Stallman
Names generate meaning in a short amount of space — they provoke thoughts, questions. That's something I like doing. Of course, you have to be… — Joshua Ferris
A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to… — Iggy Azalea
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse… — Thomas Aquinas
A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in new experience, I… — Bill Watterson
It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and… — Brendan Gill
If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the screen, then you get this playful challenge… — Joseph Morgan
For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it's only the art about pain that is… — Ellen Forney
[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols resentment as a… — Eric Hoffer
If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through… — Salman Rushdie
The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. At still other times,… — Roger von Oech
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved. — Michael Jackson
I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful. — Kesha

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