Johan Huizinga Homo Ludens Quotes & Sayings

All I care is what the boys at the forks of the creek think of me. — Huey Long

If you've ever studied mortal age cartoons, you'll remember this one. A coyote was always plotting the demise of a smirking long-necked bird. The coyote never succeeded; instead, his plans always backfired. He would blow up, or get shot, or splat from a ridiculous height.

And it was funny.

Because no matter how deadly his failure, he was always back in the next scene, as if there were a revival center just beyond the edge of the animation cell.

I've seen human foibles that have resulted in temporary maiming or momentary loss of life. People stumble into manholes, are hit by falling objects, trip into the paths of speeding vehicles.

And when it happens, people laugh, because no matter how gruesome the event, that person, just like the coyote, will be back in a day or two, as good as new, and no worse - or wiser - for the wear.

Immortality has turned us all into cartoons. — Neal Shusterman

If you open your mind more than you open your mouth, you will open your world more than you open your doubt. — Robert J. Braathe

Before I came here, I had people telling me what a tough place New York is, how other players came here and struggled. But I never let that bother me. I came here because I want to win. — CC Sabathia

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. — Simone De Beauvoir

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome. — Isabella Rossellini

Sometimes I feel only I can stop myself. — Jevon Kearse

Poetry keeps my heart neat, even when incomplete, I find peace. — Delano Johnson

Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all. — Maya Angelou