Recreative Quotes & Sayings

What am I? Let's just say I won't fetch a stick for you. I won't beg for treats. And, no matter how nicely you ask, I will not roll over and play dead. — Kelley Armstrong

I realized that this was my life, and there was nothing I could do about it. I couldn't fight the tide, so I
decided to float along. — David Levithan

John Calvin said he constantly studied to be simple. — Bryan Chapell

Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together, because the planet is in a lot of pain. My job [acting] doesn't always feel like an integral part of the change that needs to occur. If I can offer, in my profession, to do things that are going to allow more people to connect with certain issues, then I hope it's useful. — Ellen Page

Murderous thieves make their home here." She failed to keep the tremor from her voice.
"Absolutely," Jonas replied.
"Dangerous animals too."
"Without a doubt."
She slanted a look toward him. "Perfect place for you."
He repressed a snort. "Oh, such compliments, your highness. You're going to make me blush. — Morgan Rhodes

Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative. — John Lancaster Spalding

Among people, particularly those I love, I so easily get talking and give out everything possible in conversation, so that it is not available for my work. It is a stupid piece of clumsiness that I am so wanting in the gift of sociability, the talent for easy but at the same time recreative conversations, in which one does not exert and expend oneself (Letters 1906-1907, p. 118). — Rainer Maria Rilke

Education has no more serious responsibility than the making of adequate provision for enjoyment of recreative leisure not only for the sake of immediate health, but for the sake of its lasting effect upon the habits of the mind. — John Dewey

I've spent years trying to "get in touch with my inner child," but now my new therapist tells me it's mostly been inappropriate touching. — Lev L. Spiro

I craved him, like an opium addict craved the pipe: the sound of his voice, the touch of his hand, his mere presence in the same room. — Jordan L. Hawk

Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another. — Franz Von Papen

Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is the wriggle. — E. M. Forster