Top 100 Quotes About Playful
#1. To the hopefuls who believe in the magic of ridiculous, silly, and playful love.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#2. All the stuff I don't like about myself has been pushed to the back of my brain. Maybe that is what I like best about him, the way he makes me. Not makes me feel, just makes me. I am fun. I am playful. I am game. I feel naturally happy and entirely satisfied.
Gillian Flynn
#3. Never misunderstand seriousness for sincerity. Sincerity is very playful, never serious. It is true, authentic, but never serious. Sincerity does not have a long face, it is bubbling with joy, radiating with an inner joyousness.
Rajneesh
#4. Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things.
Eric Dane
#5. A game is a problem-solving activity, approached with a playful attitude
Jesse Schell
#6. She imagined kisses on her neck and shoulder. Soft, light kisses; sharp, playful nips. Damn. Her imagination came in high-definition.
Mina Khan
#7. You can cause earthquakes?"
He sighed, a playful look in his eyes. "There's such a delicious joke there, but I'm going to be good and hold back. With the amount of sexual tension permeating these grounds, even a bad 'rock your world' line is liable to ignite something.
Elizabeth Hunter
#8. The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
Eric Hoffer
#9. Once he was gone, I closed my eyes and pulled in everything from our short time together: the way he stared at me, the playful smiles, the sweet kisses. I thought about them over and over as I got ready for bed, wondering if Maxon was doing the same thing.
Kiera Cass
#10. Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#11. And to this hour the image of Carmilla returns to mind with ambiguous alterations
sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church; and often from a reverie I have started, fancying I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing room door.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#13. It doesn't help that your idiom is all at once playful, esoteric, and, at times, bemusing.
Meghan Ciana Doidge
#14. Sex and writing live on playful cruelties.
Mason Cooley
#15. Embrace curiosity, be open, playful, and persistent.
Debra Kaye
#16. I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.
Nalo Hopkinson
#18. Do I shock you? We are very playful here. It's a good tone for an operating theatre. It is a theatre, after all.
David Cronenberg
#19. 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 the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
Iggy Azalea
#20. We are playful when we engage others at the level of choice, when there is no telling in advance where our relationship with them will come out
when, in fact, no one has an outcome to be imposed on the relationship, apart from the decision to continue it.
James P. Carse
#21. See, that wasn't so bad!" I grin as we tread water.
Eventually he smirks at me, obviously relieved. "No, I guess it wasn't. Except I'm wet," he grumbles, but his tone is playful.
'I'm wet, too."
"I like you wet." He leers.
E.L. James
#22. Just as physical energy comes from diet, exercise and rest, emotional energy comes from the ways you take care of yourself emotionally
living in a way that makes you feel inspired, hopeful, self-confident, playful, loving and in touch with what you care about most.
Mira Kirshenbaum
#23. When we come to [work] we bring an attitude. We can bring a moody attitude and have a depressing day. We can bring a grouchy attitude and irritate our coworkers and customers. Or we can bring a sunny, playful, cheerful attitude and have a great day.
Stephen C. Lundin
#24. I am the youngest of four children - three boys and one girl. I don't think becoming an actor had anything to do with seeking attention, though. My relationship with my siblings when I was growing up was close and playful.
David Harewood
#25. But I need solitude
which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. With your depth of field and curious soul, allowing something to evolve or to see meaning in playful accidents can make the difference between creating the same old thing, or something that is unique, valuable, lasting, beautiful.
Alan Moore
#27. "Take it easy, Jewels," Sebastian said, trying to sound playful, but worry was written all over his face.
"Why can't you ever call me by my real name?" "Well, at least I know you're coherent- you're back to asking your heap of questions."' Concealed
Sang Kromah
#28. A true friend is one with whom you can be playful and serious at the same time. The Bible teaches that God has appointed "a time to weep, and a time to laugh
Joel R. Beeke
#29. Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language, stirring it up. And prose is not doing that. Primarily it's not attempting to do that.
Pattiann Rogers
#30. For such a strong, physically intimidating guy, he was so freaking soft. So playful, so generous with affection. So everything I wanted. And everything I didn't think I could handle.
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#31. 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 to such things at times.
Thomas Aquinas
#32. One of the reasons I really love low budget filmmaking is you don't have to think about that as much. You can have more fun and be more playful and be freer creatively.
M. Night Shyamalan
#33. Sometimes you have to listen to a CD over and over before you really get it, but as soon as I heard the first note of R&B artist Chrisette Michele's debut CD, I was blown away. Her voice is playful but pretty, light but strong - the woman's got soul.
Gayle King
#34. Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.
Henry David Thoreau
#35. I was wondering If I was going to get a dance at all," I commented, trying to sound playful.
Maxon managed to pull me even closer. "I was saving this one. I've put in time with all the other girls, so my obligations are over. Now I can enjoy the rest of my evening with you.
Kiera Cass
#36. What I'm feeling . . . it's unfamiliar - carefree, playful, light. . . . I feel light.
Kyra Davis
#37. Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don't be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don't pretend to be a thinker, a philosopher. Just simply be a human being. The whole world is showering its joy on you in so many ways, but you are too serious, you cannot open your heart.
Osho
#38. I feel playful aggression is important for children because they have to deal with all kinds of anger and aggression in their lives.
Brian Sutton-Smith
#40. What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression.
Brian Sutton-Smith
#41. People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's again about that playfulness. Being Turkey's voice or representative is not playful, it's not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me.
Orhan Pamuk
#42. 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 playful in intention.
Brendan Gill
#43. When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions.
Nicolas Cage
#44. I think you can't really reach the emotionally intense stuff without having built a genuine light, playful, connected energy, to begin with.
Rose McIver
#45. In ten years, or certainly before then, I'd like to not only be continuously busy as an actor playing tormented, playful characters in film and television but also have gotten a few of my own films made.
Kyle Cassie
#46. Often the Muse will not respond to direct and logical requests. She must be lured in with the playful and gentle.
Jill Badonsky
#47. Im extremely honest, and I pride myself on it. I dont try to be shocking. Im playful, and I know when something Im saying is maybe shocking, but its just the truth, I never wanted to be scary to people or upsetting to people. I simply want to live the way I need to live.
Angelina Jolie
#48. We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies such as Apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-Euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later.
Arthur Koestler
#49. In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult belonging has to be chosen, received, and renewed. It is a lifetime's work.
John O'Donohue
#50. I don't think creativity is mine to maintain. It automatically comes when we declare that "I am an expression of life, and life will express itself through me in the most playful and wonderful of ways, if I let it."
Richard Bach
#51. Only when we are at our most playful can divinity finally get serious with us.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#53. Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express.
Oliver Herring
#54. I'm not a quester or a searcher for the truth. I don't really think there is one answer, so I never went looking for it. My impulse is less questing and more playful. I like trying on ideas and ways of life and religious approaches. I'm just not a good candidate for conversion.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#55. Trinidadians love speaking their own English; it's full of poetic forms and can be playful and lyrical and comical. Trinidadians are verbal acrobats, and I love being on the island just to hear the people speak.
Monique Roffey
#56. Of course Dexter always applauds the charitable spirit. But in general, I am so very much in favor of it because it is nearly always a warning sign that something nefarious, wicked, and playful is going on behind the Mother Teresa mask.
Jeff Lindsay
#57. In the silence, I could hear the distinct sound of goats maa-ing in the barn. Lying there listening to them made me smile, too. I'd always loved goats - every one of them different from every other one, and all of them goofy and playful.
Steve Watkins
#58. She looked playful and eager, but not quite sure of herself, like a new kitten in a house where they don't care much about kittens.
Raymond Chandler
#59. I liked her ... I really liked her. I wanted to protect her. I approached her in a gentle, playful manner, because she's so precious and I wanted to hold her in my arms because she's so carefree. She was my treasure.
Arina Tanemura
#60. I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really like.
Bat For Lashes
#61. 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 Eastman
#62. The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.
Mortimer J. Adler
#64. Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.
Floyd Skloot
#65. She moaned in playful disappointment. "You shouldn't have canceled. It would be fund to take a picture. You'll be laughing at this years from now.
Stacey O'Neale
#66. 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 is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful.
Gail Sheehy
#67. Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates that there need be no barriers in poetry; that the philosophical, the lyrical and the playful can be combined in work of assured and generous vision.
John Burnside
#68. The process of creating your dream ought to be playful, mixing and channelling your inspirational thoughts and intuitive feelings into manifesting your dream.
Christopher Dines
#69. Surrendered people make great lovers. They can be spontaneous and playful. They love to feel and express all of their emotions. They look vibrant, healthy, and energetic.
Judith Orloff
#70. I'm cocky. It's different. Cocky is playful.
Adam Levine
#71. He grinned a slow, lazy grin and nipped at my lips. I smiled softly; he looked so young and beautiful and carefree in that moment. Not the CEO who ran a billion dollar company, but a man that looked his age. Playful and sweet ...
Adriane Leigh
#72. People react differently to puppets than they do to human performers: they become more playful, more open.
Kathe Koja
#73. A kitten, a nice, little, sleek playful kitten, that I can play with, and teach, and feed, and feed, and feed!
Bram Stoker
#74. We all want to be a little glamorous, a little playful and a little mischievous at times.
Jason Wu
#75. He was used to being playful with women, teasing while keeping ultimate control. With Luna, he felt like a berserk marauder. He couldn't even spell control, much less utilize it.
Lori Foster
#76. Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong.
Francis Of Assisi
#77. A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.
Edwin H. Friedman
#78. Hello?" Cam said in a playful tone, "House of all things kinky, the resident sexpert speaking.
Chloe Walsh
#79. To me, age doesn't make a difference in terms of how playful or fun life can be.
Brit Morin
#80. Dom is generous, loving and respectful to not only his submissive, but all women. He is gentlemanly in public, but playful in private and a savage in the bedroom.
Ella Dominguez
#81. Playful stimulation probably hits all kinds of synaptic possibilities. It is all make-believe and all over the map. The potentiality of the synapses and the potentiality of playfulness are a beautiful marriage.
Brian Sutton-Smith
#82. Make the time to connect to your more playful side, the child within you. Take the time to study the positive qualities of children and model their ability to stay energized, imaginative and completely in the moment no matter what might be going on around them.
Robin S. Sharma
#83. To make a movie charming, you have to be playful on all levels and open to ideas, and you have to have an idea for how to do that within the confines of the shooting schedule and editing and all that.
Lasse Hallstrom
#84. And a killer was out there, plotting his next murder. Damn. He watched her mood shift, playful to alert and serious.
J.T. Ellison
#85. On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough.
Seth
#86. 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 to life. He can make things happen.
Derek Hough
#87. A key component of high-level learning is cultivating a resilient awareness that is the older, conscious embodiment of a child's playful obliviousness.
Josh Waitzkin
#88. The Almost Free Theatre, the Fun Art Bus and the rest of them were phenomena of a decade which was simultaneously playful and desperately serious; and
Tom Stoppard
#89. I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools.
Benjamin Percy
#90. Art originates in play - in improvisation, experiment, and fantasy; it remains forever, in its deepest instincts, playful and spontaneous, an exercise of the imagination analogous to the exercising of the physical body to no purpose other than ecstatic release.
Joyce Carol Oates
#91. Playful," Amanda repeated, shaking her head. The idea contradicted all her long-held ideas of romance and sex. One did not "play" in bed. What did he mean?
Was he implying that sexual partners enjoyed jumping on the mattress and throwing pillows, as children did?
Lisa Kleypas
#93. The rules are: The more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.
Hans Zimmer
#95. For one can live in friendship
With verses and with cards, with Plato and with wine,
And hide beneath the gentle cover of our playful pranks
A noble heart and mind.
Alexander Pushkin
#96. You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world, and as you walk through those doors today, you will only have two choices: love or fear. Choose love, and don't ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.
Jim Carrey
#97. 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 leads, but music and fashion are connected genetically.
Hedi Slimane
#98. It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
Adam Savage
#99. To do otherwise with a 'prentice was to ask for a second, less playful bite. And who would be to blame for that? Who but the teacher? For was he not training her to bite? Training both of them to bite?
Stephen King
#100. My relationship with fashion is playful and very expressive of what I'm feeling at the time.
Phoebe Philo
