Top 287 Playful Quotes & Sayings

I guess you can say I 'do the Twist.' I like playful dance moves that aren't too serious.

...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing.

My first album is playful.

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

Playful arising is authorized by both risk and trust in the process and in oneself. To be truly playful and improvisational one must not look for results.

To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.

She is deranged, but so so playful.

Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.

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.

To me, age doesn't make a difference in terms of how playful or fun life can be.

The playful search for beauty.

The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.

To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols resentment as a fuel of achievement.

What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding. "Isosceles," Jack quipped.

I like to be playful; I want people to look at what I do and smile.

What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression.

The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things.

Those playful fancies of the mighty sky.

I like playful beats, xylophones, whimsical sounds of Bobby Johnson productions.

Shaq is pretty mischievous and playful. But he was a great vet to me. He always talked about the big-man alliance and the basketball gods.

Fashion should be playful.

It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".

If you are not playful you are not alive.

Our characters act silly, even totally ridiculous at times, and most of our jokes don't come out of pop cultural references. It seems like we're aiming at a child audience, but everyone can laugh at the basic human traits that are funny. It's playful, the humor is playful, the world is playful. You can kind of let go.

Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how Id describe my style.

When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.

Sex and writing live on playful cruelties.

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.

Chris Colfer... he's like a... playful wood-nymph.

A game is a problem-solving activity, approached with a playful attitude

A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.

I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.

You're such a cynic," Molly said. "I think cynics are playful and cute.

The playful perspective is not meant to turn your life into a game or a jungle gym. It's rather that the activity is looking outside of yourself.

RuPaul has a very playful outlook on the world. He always looks on the bright side.

Choose love and don't ever let fear turn you away from your playful heart

Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.

I'm always trying to have a good time on set because that's when things happen. That's when you're playful.

When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner … a culture of playfulness is closely related to the capacity to learn.

I think you can't really reach the emotionally intense stuff without having built a genuine light, playful, connected energy, to begin with.

I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.

Look at Kate Moss, she's such an amazing representation of that peak '90s fashion of a slinky shimmery dress and choker. Fashion was playful in the '90s, and that's why I love music festivals as well. They have that playful essence.

Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' and 'Wonder Boys' and his playful, heartfelt, more fantastical novels like 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' and 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union.'

That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and it didn't matter. You stood and faced it. There was no outwitting anything. When Almondine had been playful, she had been playful in the face of that knowledge, as defiant as before the rabid thing. Sometimes you looked the thing in the eye and it turned away. Sometimes it didn't.

Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how I'd describe my style.

My preference is for people who come to rehearsal and get into the ring. I like a muscular actor who's playful.

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

Fashion is so subjective, and I think it should be playful.

Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express.

I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them!

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

I am extremely intentional in making the environment around me playful and loving. I have great skill in that area.

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.

I like when life feels playful.

O' the blue-bodied cowherd - ever playful in love and war. Don't you fail to see the immensity of his wisdom and light.

My relationship with fashion is playful and very expressive of what I'm feeling at the time.

All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.