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Playful Quotes (page 145)

There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery, short of a new major play by Shakespeare. Margaret Drabble
Robert Ludlum quote: "Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are..."
Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them. Robert Ludlum
Don DeLillo quote: "I feel sad for people and the queer part we play in our own..."
I feel sad for people and the queer part we play in our own distasters. Don DeLillo
When the one great scorer comes to write against your name -He marks - not that you won or lost - but how you played the game Grantland Rice
Bob Dylan quote: "The country music stations plays soft but there's nothing,..."
The country music stations plays soft but there's nothing, really nothing to turn off. Bob Dylan
If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape. Ray Bradbury
Now that music is faithfully reproducible, musicians are not needed as once they were. And music itself has changed. Though small cadres of classicists keep the sacred and ineffable alive, they are under siege by coarse generations whose music is hardly as musical as a bus engine or a chain saw. Something must have occurred during their mothers' pregnancies. How else is it possible to explain that playing Bach keeps them away from public spaces the way iron spikes drive pigeons from cathedral... Mark Helprin
It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thomas More quote: "What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you..."
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it. Thomas More
Franklin D. Roosevelt quote: "You are only an extra in everyone else's play."
You are only an extra in everyone else's play. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to do it on your own. Nobody ever gave you a grade for learning how to play, how to ride a bicycle, or how to kiss. One of the best ways to destroy love for any of these activities would be through the use of grades, and the coercion and judgment they represent. Grades are a cudgel to bludgeon the unwilling into doing what they don't... Derrick Jensen
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "Ai taught me a Terran game played on squares with little..."
Ai taught me a Terran game played on squares with little stones, called go, an excellent difficult game. Ursula K. Le Guin
Anne looked at the white young mother with a certain awe that had never entered into her feelings for Diana before. Could this pale woman with the rapture in her eyes be the little black-curled, rosy-cheeked Diana she had played with in vanished schooldays? It gave her a queer desolate feeling that she herself somehow belonged only in those past years and had no business in the present at all. L. M. Montgomery
So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor. Rose Macaulay
If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one of them, and run down without any haggling, puttering hesitation, boldly jumping from boulder to boulder with even speed. You will then find your feet playing a tune, and quickly discover the music and poetry of these magnificent rock piles -- a fine lesson; and all Nature's wildness tells the same story -- the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring,... John Muir

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