Top 500 Play Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Coyote never loses. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?”

— Patricia Briggs

302. “There are much worse games to play.”

— Suzanne Collins

303. “Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.”

— Dallas Willard

304. “I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don’t mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.”

— Bill Nye

305. “I feel like I just returned a 100-yard kickoff in the last two minutes of the Super Bowl to win it all, only to have my run called back by a flag on the play.”

— Kobe Bryant

306. “Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!”

— Vladimir Nabokov

307. “Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!”

— Vladimir Nabokov

308. “Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.”

— Uta Hagen

309. “I’d like to play bass like Bootsy Collins. I’m serious. That would be my dream.”

— Anthony Bourdain

310. “You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.”

— Warren Beatty

311. “Who could doubt that sport is a crucial window for the propagation of fair play and justice? After all, fair play is a value that is essential to sport.”

— Nelson Mandela

312. “It doesn’t matter to me what place I get traded to. If I was traded someplace – I’d play anywhere.”

— Kobe Bryant

313. “I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.”

— Novak Djokovic

314. “There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.”

— Sigmund Freud

315. “A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

316. “In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people’s lives.”

— Anatole Broyard

317. “Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.”

— Terence McKenna

318. “I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child’s play, ugly monotonous child’s play.”

— James Joyce

319. “We overlook just how large a role we all play – and by ‘we’ I mean society – in determining who makes it and who doesn’t.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

320. “Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”

— Joan Didion

321. “Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you.”

— Khalil Gibran

322. “Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman.”

— Thomas Jefferson

323. “When we treat children’s play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that’s to be found in the creative spirit. It’s the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.”

— Fred Rogers

324. “I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.”

— Emma Watson

325. “The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.”

— T. S. Eliot

326. “Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.”

— Sri Aurobindo

327. “Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.”

— Bryan Adams

328. “Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.”

— Michael Scott

329. “I work too hard and don’t play enough.”

— Danielle Steel

330. “In Shakespeare’s plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.”

— Samuel Johnson

331. “We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.”

— Michel de Montaigne

332. “The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.”

— Blaise Pascal

333. “The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.”

— Jim Morrison

334. “There is no real difference between work and play – it’s all living.”

— Richard Branson

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335. “My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, won’t you play with my ding-a-ling.”

— Chuck Berry

336. “We all think that this relationship thing is a game out here. All I’m saying to women is, ‘Okay. If it’s a game, here are the rules that we play by.’”

— Steve Harvey

337. “It’s human; we all put self interest first.”

— Euripides

338. “It’s not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.”

— Lionel Messi

339. “The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.”

— Michel de Montaigne

340. “Science is not formal logic-it needs the free play of the mind in as great a degree as any other creative art. It is true that this is a gift which can hardly be taught, but its growth can be encouraged in those who already posses it.”

— Max Born

341. “The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.”

— Sigmund Freud

342. “Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.”

— Aldous Huxley

343. “It ain’t like football. You can’t make up no trick plays.”

— Yogi Berra

344. “Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.”

— Lily Tomlin

345. “I believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share, when everyone plays by the same rules.”

— Barack Obama

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346. “The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.”

— Bertrand Russell

347. “There is a real connection between culture and climate change. We all have a part to play and if you engage with life, you will get a new set of values, get off the consumer treadmill, and start to think, and it is these great thinkers who will rescue the planet.”

— Vivienne Westwood

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348. “In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do – and not only for operating, but for everything.”

— Ben Carson

349. “The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.”

— Dimebag Darrell

350. “My style of play has always been the same. I never tried to develop a specific style. From very young I just played this way.”

— Lionel Messi