44 Playfulness Quotes

If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker.

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.

'Hello Rabbit, is that you?' 'Let's pretend it isn't', said Rabbit, 'and see what happens.'

Mark (panasonicyouth on Buzznet): Who would win in a dance off? Davey or Jade?

Hello Fry, it's a ... [stops mid-sentence, throws a twenty sided die] pleasure to meet you.

Dada is for dreams,colourful paper masks, kettle drums, sound poems, concretions, poem statiques, for things that are not far from picking flowers and making bouquets.

'If you really want to see some ill patty cake, you have to see Davey and I do it. And then watch us play patty cake.'

Occasionally, I'd pick up the lifeguard buoy and run down the beach Baywatch-style, like something was actually happening.

Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles.

'To me, that sounded like 'monkey tree xanadu!'

Oh Carlito what you did last week wasn't cool or neat-o, So I guess I'll have to make you bleed-o, or if your in the mood for cotton tacos say Hello to Mr Socko, and when the match is all complete-o you'll leave skid marks inside your speedo, Have a nice day!

That's not my heart, Chels, somebody is throwing a ball against my...face. You stay right there, you little nasty! [goes downstairs to give ball back to Sierra]

Here we'll strip and cool our fire In cream below, in milk-baths higher; And when all wells are drawn dry, I'll drink a tear out of thine eye.

Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at bo-peep, Did soon draw in again.

Inside every sophisticated grownup adult is a little kid just dying to get out.

We're going streaking... through the quad to the gymnasium!

You know, you so-and-so, you've a little of the hoodlum in you

Lovely Rita, Meter Maid, nothing could come between us. When it gets dark I'll tow your heart away

Francisco! That's fun to say! Francisco... Frannncisco... Franciscooo...

I wanna be the King of the Candy Castle!

If you saw me in my speedo, you'd want to play with the little man in the boat.

Great googly-moogly!

There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to have gone. Life's so serious now.

Would you like to sin With Elinor Glyn On a tiger skin? Or would you prefer To err With her On some other fur?

You get a canoe later and I'll paddle you.

I like not knowing what's happening out there -- who's doing what, how they were, what the box office was. Even when I'm in the soup bowl of Hollywood, I just play Barbies and hang out with the kiddies. (2004)

I honestly have no clue how to play [piano]. But if you walk into a room with a baby grand, you're kind of obligated to fuck around on it. (2003)

It's pleasing to realize that quite a few people enjoy this sort of playfulness and that they are not afraid to look at the relative nature of rock-hard reality.

One and one is two; two and two is four; and 'five will get you ten' if you work it right!

If you make sweet love with a school teacher / You'll have an amazing night / She'll do it and do it and do it again / Until you get it right.

'Who are you supposed to be, dear? Are you Daddy or the Mad Hatter?'

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does. ~ Roy Blount, Jr.

Ya lil' nasty!

...fourmish her in Spinner's housery at the earthbest schoppinhour...