Quotes of: Playing Keyword

It wasn’t enough that I had to worry about playing well and winning the game, but I also had to deal with possibility that one of my teammates could be dragged off the field by the inhabitants of the mental hospital.

Musings on Minutiae

[The cats] scamper in front of my legs, causing me to fall and face plant into whatever furniture is closest. They especially like to play this game when I’m carrying piping hot coffee.

Musings on Minutiae

You see, most people play louder to get someone's attention, but getting quieter can stop a bull from charging.

The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

Silverfish looked down. "Oh. Are you a dwarf?" Cuddy gave him a blank stare. "Are you a giant?" He said. "Me? Of course not!" "Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes.

Men at Arms: The Play

You're playing hookey for her? You met her, what, five minutes ago? And now she's what? Your girlfriend? Did you give her your varsity jacket?

The Magnate's Indecent Proposal

I'm saying the American way is to overcome, to conquer, to come out on top. And we do it by spending and eating and screwing our women harder than anyone else. That's all I'm saying.

The Mercy Seat: A Play

What if...what if...what if...I play the What If? game all the time. But it's rigged, is the thing. Impossible to win. Asking What If? can only lead to Maybe Things Could Have Been Different, via Was It My Fault?

Mosquitoland

The world is always full of the sound of waves. The little fishes, abandoning themselves to the waves, dance and sing, and play, but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows it depth?

Musashi

Don Severo dropped his fork, Doña Remedios nearly chocked, but Jesús carried on playing with his food. He’d never really liked broccoli.

The Man Who Never Was

Something inside of me won't let me play small

Nyabo (Madam) - Why Are You Here? The Truth about Living in Service, Love, and Personal Power

Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...

Nightmarish Sacrifice

And I wasn’t playing a role – I was trying to be myself. But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I had probably lost that ‘myself’ somewhere between two perfectly performed roles...

Nightmarish Sacrifice

Whoever is messing with my daughter, messing with my home, will be sorry they chose to play this game. I’ll be screaming checkmate before they even realise I moved my pawns…

No Secrets: Eternity series

Just because we’re adults doesn’t mean we should grow up! The world’s a playground for us, Melody, and I for one intend to play!

No Secrets: Eternity series

The only candidate I'd allow to play my music would be Bigfoot, and unless we're talking about foraging for squirrels, he's notoriously apolitical.

Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You

I make love like a flower sings. That’s hyperbole, because flowers don’t sing—they only play the guitar.


Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

The death rate for people who play it safe and for those who live boldly is the same.

Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

He cried, almost entire night. He cried alone in his small shed. That was only game that he could play without needing another person to participate.

The Last Smile of The Plaster-man

I'm turning into an old man. I own four pairs of oxfords, my stories get a little long winded, and my neighbors play their music too loud.

The Little Silkworm

When I am alone, I drink my tea with pinkie raised, like a kid playing "tea party." At times, a fancy British accent is involved. Dahling!

The Little Silkworm

Terrible and ancient and scarred with the endless cold of space, the terrible and ancient things glistened with frozen moisture and colors played across the surface of the skin, colors that were never meant to be seen on earth.

Lovecraft Unbound