Playgrounds – Quotes

I think I gravitate

I think I gravitate towards rock ‘n’ roll as a playground where I can say anything. Ezra Furman

I’m sure many people who discover they are destined to be athletes before they know what kind, go through a period of revelation… when they realise instinctively that this is their game… I think I realised that those first couple of summers in Barellan when the War Memorial Tennis Club became my playground. Evonne Goolagong … Read more

I decided to become

I decided to become a teacher because I thought it would be a great career where I could wear different hats. You’re an academic one moment, and you’re a psychologist the next moment, an athlete the next moment… when you are out on the playground or coaching…so it enables you to play different roles. Erik … Read more

That’s why we feel

That’s why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don’t like it when our hometown changes, even in small ways. It’s unsettling. The playground! It used to be right here, I swear. Mess with our hometown, and you’re messing with our past, with who we are. Nobody … Read more

As someone who makes

As someone who makes his living as an actor, my routine varies almost every day. There are weeks I’m working and weeks I’m not. People think it must be great to have all that time off, but you’d be surprised how quickly that grass would become greener. The idle brain is the devil’s playground. Eric … Read more

The idle brain is

The idle brain is the devil’s playground. Eric Lange

It is the child

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents. Eric Hoffer

The Paleolithic hunters who

The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child … Read more

In the world I

In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time…I don’t know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well…I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there’s only a little … Read more

I try to keep

I try to keep it positive and play it cool, shoot up the playground and tell the kids to stay in school. Eminem