Playing With Quotes

#1. I don't really have loads of friends - three or four who are close. The thing that I love the most is playing with my band, and with everything else I feel kind of uncomfortable. I don't think I'm socially awkward. I just prefer being behind a piano.

Tom Odell

#2. If you don't stop playing with that dress, I'm going to rip it right off of you, and we won't be heading for dinner.

Patricia Briggs

#3. Playing with your spouse on the golf course runs almost as great a marital risk as getting caught playing with someone else's anywhere else.

Peter Andrews

#4. Adam," she panted. "I thought you wanted to see the lights."
"Yeah, they're real nice. Wonder if I could make you come just by playing with your nipples? What do you think, princess?

Kylie Scott

#5. Only when he was conducting an autopsy could he forget the death of his beloved son. Ironically, playing with dead bodies released him from the death that had touched him.

Koji Suzuki

#6. I was playing with pencils while the other girls were playing with dolls.

Sasha Pivovarova

#7. I have been very lucky to find something I am good at and can make money at ... Playing with Bruce was the embodiment of everything that a little kid could dream about.

Max Weinberg

#8. At home, we're listening to TV or playing with our computers, so our entertaining is rusting. We don't know how to be good hosts and guests in business situations.

Letitia Baldrige

#9. Something about her is so tempting to look at. Her anger has a childish aura as if she isn't made of real evil; just a bratty princess playing with her toy fangs.

Cameron Jace

#10. All the city was playing with this sound out there in the blue summer dark, throwing it up and calling it back, promising that, in a little while, life would be beautiful as a story, promising happiness, and by that promise giving it

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.

Herbie Mann

#12. When Pang was barely out of toddlerhood, she zoomed in and out of the apartment unsupervised, playing with plastic bags and, on occasion, with a large butcher knife.

Anne Fadiman

#13. There was some kind of passion between them. It gave off a faint wrong smoky odor, like something burning where it shouldn't be, arson committed by children playing with matches. I

Ross Macdonald

#14. Occasionally, once a speaker is on his feet, it is difficult to get him to sit down ... If and when he returns to earth, he notices half of the room is paging the other half and a few are playing with the melted candles.

Erma Bombeck

#15. Now I'm a God, but tomorrow, when you have to stop me from playing with dead things again, you'll be right back to calling me an idiot, won't you?

Mira Grant

#16. Wake up, Astrid. Your psychotic criminal is playing with knives. (Sasha)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#17. I've been playing with this idea in my mind that the hero's journey that we're all taught as screenwriters may resonate more specifically for male protagonists and maybe even male viewers.

Jill Soloway

#18. I'll never feel as comfortable singing as I do playing. The mandolin is my real voice. My actual voice is sort of my secondary voice, but I love to do it and I love giving people relief from playing with a little bit of singing.

Chris Thile

#19. In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.

Ram Dass

#20. It was fate, I thought. Just fate. We think we control our own lives, but the gods play with us like children playing with straw dolls.

Bernard Cornwell

#21. It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players.

Ace Frehley

#22. Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.

Heraclitus

#23. Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.

Rachel Hunter

#24. I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with Charles, Michael Jordan and Roy Green, and Charles was talking so much trash. On every shot, he was talking trash. So I left the tournament, and I went and practiced for a year and half.

Eric Dickerson

#25. In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

Patrick Stump

#26. Outside my window, truckers trucked, hookers fucked, cops cruised, kids smoked, elders yelled, invalids slept, spouses fought, lovers kissed, while I watched a pussycat playing with stars in a black room.

Jardine Libaire

#27. I'm not playing with death, I'm playing with life.

Yves Rossy

#28. In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.

Brett Favre

#29. Same job, whether it's comedy or drama. Regardless of the weight of the role, I feel like the job is always kind of the same. Who is this person? What's this guy here, and how is he playing with this thing, and what's he trying to say? And what's the volley with all these other people around him?

Greg Kinnear

#30. By making offers Modular, the business can create and improve each offer in isolation, then mix and match offers as necessary to better serve their customers. It's like playing with LEGOS: once you have a set of pieces to work with, you can put them together in all sorts of interesting ways.

Josh Kaufman

#31. We're like a two-year old playing with fire ... we're messing around with something really dangerous and don't really understand what will happen.

William F. Laurance

#32. I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.

Lev Grossman

#33. You do. You're most beautiful just after you've woken up. It's always my favorite time, when we go for a run I the morning and I get to see you first thing. He kept playing with my hair.

Jessica Shirvington

#34. If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that level.

Tony Goldwyn

#35. There is no entanglement where there is truth, and where there is no truth, there is entanglement of playing with 'toys' (interaction with people).

Dada Bhagwan

#36. I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

Larry Niven

#37. A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.

Mario Testino

#38. I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.

Gary Burton

#39. I just got off stage playing with Lynyrd Skynyrd a minute ago. It was a great show. Got to meet some incredible guests. This is the bee's knees.

Bo Bice

#40. Dancing with heartbreak is the strangest thing. It's like playing with fire; you know you'll get burnt but you are still captivated by the flickering flame and the magnetic heat.

Aishabella Sheikh

#41. I may not be playing with a full deck but I don't need a full deck. I have four aces.

Jonathan Winters

#42. Being creative and playing with your content during the holidays is a great idea. But straying too far from your fundamental brand (from address, logo, etc.) can be a dangerous game. Your recipients need to be able to recognize you during this busy time of year.

Paul Ford

#43. I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.

Harlan Coben

#44. I was working at eBay, so I would just troll the vintage categories, find old amps and what have you. I was buying a fair amount of stuff and playing with it and then selling it back.

Bill Orcutt

#45. I love eye shadows that are shimmery and playing with colors. There's just more you can do with your eyes.

Carrie Underwood

#46. Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.

Adam Rich

#47. It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago. Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing.

Patrick Kane

#48. There is more to writing than playing with words.

Marty Rubin

#49. Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and playing with patterns, finding coherence within complexity, sharing within multiplicity.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#50. I have a tendency, especially when I'm playing with great players, to try and get them the ball.

Steve Nash

#51. The role that I play as a lone striker, I enjoy it and particularly playing with great players.

Jermain Defoe

#52. Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.

Creed Bratton

#53. I remember one time being told I could not play in a basketball game at the College of William and Mary because I was black, even though I was playing with a United States Army team.

Walter Dean Myers

#54. The reasons are likely rooted in religion. Playing around with God's creation is simply not allowed. Incidentally, in the past it was precisely the deeply religious people who said: Of course we're playing with God's creation, in fact we're perfecting it. This sort of thinking is frowned upon today.

Hans Von Storch

#55. You play with everything you've got. I'm not a lover of cheap tricks. I've always loved playing with people, but there's no rule about it. You try everything you can.

John Carpenter

#56. I still think there are some pitches in this pitching arm, so I will continue playing with USA Softball, but knowing that this could be the last time a softball player stands on the Olympic podium and has the opportunity of experiencing this - it was emotional.

Jennie Finch

#57. You were lucky about that gun. All the people we know have been playing with it, wiping prints off and putting them on. I even put a set on myself just to be fashionable.

Raymond Chandler

#58. Technique itself springs from play, because we can acquire technique only by the practice of practice, by persistently experimenting and playing with our tools and testing their limits and resistances.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#59. I just like playing with the band and doing what I do.

John Oates

#60. I am clean I am true I am playing with my cards on the table.

Elena Ferrante

#61. When I was around 9 years old, I was watching TV one day. I was looking at this commercial, with a kid in the bathtub playing with a rubber ducky or something, and I said, 'Where do those kids come from? How come they get to be on TV? I could do that stuff.'

Kristy Swanson

#62. I wouldn't want to play a normal princess who always walks around in nice dresses. I never had a connection to it when I was a child, I preferred playing with plastic soldiers.

Kristen Stewart

#63. A child playing with its father screams louder, laughs harder, jumps more eagerly, puts more faith in everything.

Lydia Netzer

#64. Wally, stop playing with your beans."
Mom is participating in a nightly ritual that never changes. Tonight, The Turd's picking up lima beans, sniffing each one, and burying it in his mashed potatoes.
"I'm not playing with them," he says, matter-of-factly. "I'm checking them for fleas.

Huston Piner

#65. With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the top of things we were working on to see what works.

Colin Greenwood

#66. In my experience, the romance novels written about BDSM have about as much in common with actual BDSM relationships as a child playing with a jump rope.

Nenia Campbell

#67. The most dangerous weapon that can be used against us is that of playing with our minds.

Ava Brown

#68. I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.

George Benson

#69. I always wanted to experience what performance would be like without the fourth wall, so I formed a company in Australia, and we did avant-garde theater, playing with gender norms, conversations about race - we just had a box of issues that we wanted to subvert with our stories, with dance.

DeObia Oparei

#70. Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them.

Brian McKnight

#71. The type of movies that give me the heebie jeebies are thrillers, because anything that's playing with your thoughts and mind, that's scary. But one thing that they never do in horror movies that I always do is I pray. You never see them pray in horror movies.

Keke Palmer

#72. I turn away, tempted to punch the glass. I'm in the gratest danger of my life, and I'm playing with my hair and wondering if the boy I can't have-and refuse to let myself want-thinks I'm pretty.

Shannon Messenger

#73. I have to take total control myself. I can't let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don't want to get other people playing with what they think that I'm trying to do.

David Bowie

#74. Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth; they are not playing with the inner character.

Christian Louboutin

#75. Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?

April Winchell

#76. My dream pet? I like a couple of them, man: monkey, I love dogs. See, tigers, I don't know - I can't be playing with something like that. A monkey, I can handle it. A dog, yeah; I would get a monkey.

French Montana

#77. Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#78. It makes you observe small details; even if it's just a kid playing with his dad, if you watch them closely, you can use that in your work. It helps you fully understand people better.

Diogo Morgado

#79. You can't jump in the box, you lunatic.
"I'm so playing with the box."
[ ... ]
"Kids never want the toy, only the box

H.M. Ward

#80. Playing with friends is a victory.

Fuzzy Zoeller

#81. Nikki - "Where's Cole?"
Jack - "Playing with the ice machine."
I snorted.
Nikki - "I'm going to miss this side of Cole if he ever gets his memory back.

Brodi Ashton

#82. Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.

George Michael

#83. My career's had a lot of ups and downs. Once I started playing with John Peers in 2013, that gave me a huge lift, a lot of direction, which I needed.

Jamie Murray

#84. Some of you could be worshipping God but you're playing with a video game.

Francis Chan

#85. Me and Tricky like playing with each other.

Braith Anasta

#86. It's been a struggle to get people to come eat for fun. You know, the way they listen to music. You can do all kinds of things with music. But food - it's something people need, and that changes everything. You start playing with it, people have all sorts of reactions.

Wylie Dufresne

#87. Every club if I am not playing, I leave because I want to play football. All I wanted to do since I was a kid is play football and if I wasn't at a club I'd be playing with my mates on a Sunday. I still come home and play five-a-side with my mates.

Kevin Kilbane

#88. My dad never pushed me but the big thing is that he helped me by going out in the backyard and playing with me.

Bart Starr

#89. The day humans cease playing with their imaginations, is the day the empires fall!

Anonymous

#90. I am burger obsessed and I love playing with the idea of what a burger can be for people. I make burgers out of everything from grains to seafood to, of course, browned meats of every kind. What I love about the burger is it makes food accessible and fun for everyone.

Rachael Ray

#91. When you spend your days playing with dead things, one or two flip-outs are bound to come with the territory.

Mira Grant

#92. I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that any man's finest moment, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the floor of battle-victorious.

Bela Karolyi

#93. It's hard to encapsulate my inspiration because there are so many different looks, but I think it's just like, sexy girl you see walking down the street in a cool outfit. A lot of eyelet, a lot of leather, playing with the hard and the soft, the good and bad inside of us all.

Chloe Sevigny

#94. The one advantage of playing with fire, Lady Caroline, is that one never gets even singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

Oscar Wilde

#95. Don't get cocky, ice-boy. I've been playing with humans since long before you ever thought of becoming one.

Julie Kagawa

#96. A god's relationship to the world, even a world in which he was walking, was about as emotionally connected as that of a computer gamer playing with knowledge of the overall shape of the game and armed with a complete set of cheat codes.

Neil Gaiman

#97. It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

Malcolm X

#98. Playing with Phil Mickelson, it doesn't get any better than that.

Peter Uihlein

#99. That was the thing about playing with a band, Peter thought. There was always someone else to rescue you when it seemed certain you might fall behind. Only the solo acts left themselves open to those kinds of disasters.

Jennifer E. Smith

#100. I made all my mistakes playing with people.

Ringo Starr