Playful Quotations

One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.

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.

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.

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

Yes, 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. My parents went through a back-to-the-land phase. Most of our vegetables and fruits came from our own garden.

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.

I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really like.

It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously.

The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters. Playful language. Joy and sorrow, pathos and elation. Episodes that dare to be different - to tell stories in silence or in song. Big themes and terrible choices.

We want to change the way people look at art, what its purpose can be, what social function it has. It can be playful and fun.

When everything does seem out of control, writing fiction is a way I can order that chaos and restore some sort of meaning. I like the playful aspect of writing fiction. You know how it is when we are kids and we make up our worlds: You be this guy, and I am going to be this guy, and we are going to go slay dragons.

When I'm acting with great actors who are in the moment and playful and have a great sense of give and take there is no difference.

She has this amazing ability to be someone who's in control, very serious, who could be very intimidating, but then could be incredibly playful and weird. She has these dual qualities, both in her life and in her work, which she can kind of slap on and off, and that's just hilarious.

She is a little girl. Her playful spirit is very much alive when she's not working. Even when she is working, she comes, and she runs and hugs everybody in the morning, and her beautiful smile just sort of forces everybody, pushes them, to open up to the day.

Kennedy knows how to use traditional poetic forms to give us both joyful and truthful observations about the human condition. His sketches of people and experiences combine playful irreverence with language full of sound and rhythm, and refreshing bites of irony.

Kelly's a sweetheart. And this is playful competition, but I felt a little ripped off losing to her.

I think it's becoming very acceptable for adults and teenagers to be playful lifelong. You know, it's very acceptable to be a video gamer and be 35 years old. It's acceptable to be a Lego adult fan and build amazing things, even though you're 40 or 25 years old.

It gets to the point where they just stopped thinking, went out there and reacted. It was sort of a playful determination that they had out there.

I think students are more comfortable contacting one another through the messaging feature on the site because it doesn't have the connotation of an e-mail. The site makes interactions much more playful and lightweight, which I think can be a great thing for building friendships or relationships.

Kyle had been told by friends that it couldn't hurt him. He thought it was just a playful thing.

My personal style changes wherever I am. When I'm in Ibiza, I'm a bit girlier because there's an opportunity to be more romantic and dress up for the beach scene. Whereas in New York, I tend to go for suiting and tailoring that almost feels like weaponry for the city - but I think I'm quite playful no matter what.

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

The art here is playful enough to break down the boundaries of suspicion and fear some people have around contemporary art. Some people have reticence about viewing art, fearing they'll be thought stupid if they don't 'get it.' These sculptures engage them without being threatening, while still adhering to the principles of contemporary art.

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.

True, True, True is that God. Forever, forever and ever, He Himself is. Your Playful Ways are revealed, O my Beloved. Beholding them, Nanak is enraptured.

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The thing high school kids have in their favor is they still have that playful side, ... I want to keep them focused on what they are doing, but also ensure they are having fun.

I wanted to enjoy the performance. This is a really fun program, a Gypsy number. It's very seductive and playful and it's getting involved with the crowd and the judges. I enjoyed it and just let it happen.

They do make really good pets just because they're affectionate and playful and they honestly don't take a lot of care.

They're not really children anymore. They become so serious about what they're doing. They transform from playful children." ()

It's a tougher-edged album less poppy and a little more rock. It's a playful mix of the different styles that we embrace.

They both take a playful look at the world.

There's the clown in House, there's an adolescent in him, a child, a playful side. There's also a tormented self-destroyer as well. I get the best of all possible worlds.

I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it.

I guess I was feeling in a playful mood. The whole boys team wants me to try and dunk, but that's not a priority right now.

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.