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Traveling is more fun
hell, life is more fun
if you can treat it as a series of impulses. — Bill Bryson

Stories full of metaphors are by writers who play the language like a mandolin for our entertainment, novelists, — Yann Martel

I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each other when we play. — Bill Frisell

Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own. — Kate Bush

My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans. — Zakes Mda

I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear. — Imelda May

The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought — Albert Einstein

Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex. — Abigail Adams

Being a pianist allows me to play in any language. — Dino Kartsonakis

The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language ... it's language as play. — Carol Ann Duffy

I have never failed, I've only shown the way I did it before doesn't work. — Thomas A. Edison

There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play. — Connie Sellecca

Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language. — George Carlin

It is proper Netiquette to post pictures with status updates to make them more engaging. — David Chiles

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same. — Marilyn Monroe

Relationships are built on the good and the bad, it's how we handle each situation that defines our character. — Melody Anne

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words. — Niels Bohr

Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians. — Neil Gaiman

Me neither," Shane put in. "Homie don't play that."
"I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all," Amelie said. — Rachel Caine

If you don't have the courage to walk alone others will not have the courage to walk with you. — Apoorve Dubey

When you play somebody, you pick up a lot of their gestures, his voice, the way he speaks, his body language. You don't often get that opportunity. — Robert Loggia

When you play music, you don't need a language. Music is a language. — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

I write because I love to play with language. — W. H. Auden

No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist. — Charlie Munger

I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me. — Kristian Bush

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard. — Russell Baker

Language is play to most writers, thoughts are play. — Stephen King

Joke exchanges are carried on in deadly earnest, like a verbal duel-mouth-to-mouth combat. Bang, bang: you're (linguistically) dead. — David Crystal

Play with your physical workplace in a way that sends positive "body language" to employees and visitors. — Tom Kelley

I want to create a kind of new monster language for kids to play with, pick up, and incorporate into their own vocabularies. — Harry Knowles

Because I'm not the same today as I was in '58, or '59 or even '71. — Link Wray

I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be. — Irrfan Khan

People invade your space and offend your sensibilities because, to be plain, they couldn't care less about you. — Laurie Graham

And a beautiful garden, not far from a beautiful lake, and I said it sounded perfectly perfect. — Vladimir Nabokov

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. — Jack Prelutsky

'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough. — Randy Newman

Life is Happiness. Happiness is the fact that I can do something right now. — Lee Donghae

Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added. — Helen Vendler

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics. — Zephyr Teachout

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression. — Marshall McLuhan

PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action. — Ambrose Bierce