Playground Mistakes

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

I ain't in no mood to play 120 questions. - Archie Bunker

Time is a game played beautifully by children. - Heraclitus

Some guys play hockey. Gretzky plays 40-mph chess. - Lowell Cohn

Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living. - Julius Boros

Tragedy: a busload of lawyers going over a cliff with an empty seat. - Unknown

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

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Creative play is like a spring that bubbles up from deep within a child. - Joan Almon

Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess. - Melissa Leo

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

Sometimes it just feels like the only thing you do is play hockey and eat. - Henrik Lundqvist

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

When healthy competition prevails - you come out to play and you play to win. - Lorii Myers

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. - Gene Perret

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost. - Arthur Miller

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

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. - Oliver W. Holmes

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

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters. - Dakota Fanning

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. - Ben Hogan

Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you - if you don't play, you can't win. - Robert Heinlein

The cards you hold in the game of life mean very little - it's the way you play them that counts. - Unknown

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public. - Phyllis Diller

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I'd made my teammates play. - Bill Russell

I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look. - Christopher Walken

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun... It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. - Ty Cobb

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. - Chinese Proverb

To devote a portion of one's leisure to do something for someone else is one of the highest forms of recreation. - Gerald B. Fitzgerald

Tarry a moment to watch the chaos of a playground, crayola-colored shirts of running children, all trying out their wings. - Dr. SunWolf

I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me. - Keanu Reeves

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day. - Michael J. Fox

Faithfulness is essential to the character of a friend: without this there can be no safety in intimacy with and confidence in him. - Samuel Hopkins

If a woman says, 'Do what you want', do not do what you want. Stand still. Do not blink. Don't even breathe. Just play dead. - Unknown

An expert is somebody who is more than fifty miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides. - Edwin Meese

When I know that, if I have no inspiration whatsoever, when I come and I just feel empty, I have nothing, I know that I can still play the scene. - Christopher Walken

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. - Bill Vaughan

Never play cards with a man called Doc, never eat at a place called Mom's, and never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. - Nelson Algren

Traveling the world was a constant thing, rich with experiences. But all of it was relative to being able to play live onstage and really stretch out. - Jimmy Page