Spiral Playground

The gods play games with men as balls. - Titus Maccius Plautus

If you don't play to win, why keep score? - Unknown

Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.' - Casablanca

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. - Oscar Wilde

Play is our brain's favorite way of learning. - Diane Ackerman

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down. - Robert Frost

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it. - H.E. Luccock

A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't. - Unknown

Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair. - Keith Richards

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. - Dudley Moore

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy. - Elliott Smith

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings. - Jay London

By admitting a mistake, it is easier to get yourself out of a spiral. - Toto Wolff

There are two kinds of music, the good and bad. I play the good kind. - Louis Armstrong

The traveler with empty pockets pursues his journey in perfect safety. - Ovid

Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play. - Sherman Alexie

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. - Dag Hammarskjold

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. - Tom Lehrer

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. - Roger von Oech

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. - Alexander Pope

I'm always suspicious of games where you're the only ones that play it. - Jack Charlton

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches. - Will Rogers

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. - Sheryl Sandberg

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. - Orson Welles

A recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation. - Madame Benoit

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. - G K Chesterton

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. - Bob Hope

Play for the name on the front of the shirt and they'll remember the name on the back. - Unknown

In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety. - Abraham Maslow

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. - Montaigne

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. - Khalil Gibran

Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. - Frederick Crane

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting! - Ewan McGregor

There's an upside to grandparenthood. You play, you give, you love, then you hand them back and go to an early movie. - Billy Crystal

When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves. - Shakti Gawain

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. - William Howard Taft

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win. - Michael Jordan

Lawyers have the singular distinction of being able to play the hero and villain at the same time. Depending on where you stand in a courthouse. - Lenox Mhlanga