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Brian Sutton-Smith Quotes

We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it's full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living - the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living - is play.

Brian Sutton-Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american

Topics

Life Morning Pain Suffering Play Go

I just try to get as much sleep as I can when I'm not working.

Meghann Fahy

Sleep I Can Try Working Get Just

When I read Katana's run in 'Birds of Prey,' I was curious about her restraint. She didn't laugh, didn't loosen up, didn't seem to have a light side. I thought, well, that demure nature is what we believe of women of Old Japan, so she seemed not like a modern Japanese but from an earlier time.

Ann Nocenti

Nature Women Time Light Curious Run

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

Tom Jones

Myself Serious Always Singer Being

The thing that I want to do, the most important thing to me is winning. How we do it, I really don't care.

Mike Singletary

Me Winning Care Important Want Most

That something that I fought so hard for throughout the beginning of my career is I didn't want to pancake my skin a lighter color to fit into the... ballet. I wanted to be myself. I didn't want to have to wear makeup that made my nose look thinner.

Misty Copeland

Myself Beginning Makeup Color Look

There are plenty of millionaires who would pay millions to hang a Van Gogh painting on the wall, but hardly one that would have ever had the crazy nut over for dinner. I feel like the big companies are like that with musicians. They'll say, 'We love music! It's all about the music!' - but if a musician shows up at the door, they call security.

Derek Sivers

Love Music Door Painting Dinner

My relationship to Britain is of no consequence.

Derek Walcott

Relationship Consequence Britain

Years ago, I worked in a newspaper office, and there were men that would have fits of temper, and it was just accepted that that's who they were, and everyone would laugh about it, but if a woman got upset or angry, something wasn't right: she was 'hysterical' or 'a little unhinged.' It didn't have the same sort of connotation at all.

Claire Messud

Men Woman Angry Laugh Upset Office

It is at the time of dawn that we must commune with the gods.

Apollonius of Tyana

Time Dawn Must Gods Commune

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.

Pierce Brosnan

Children World Better Environment

When I was 16, we moved to live in Stratford-Upon-Avon. That was the year of Paul Scofield's 'Lear.' I think he is still widely perceived as the only actor who has got his flag at the top of the mountain.

Tim Pigott-Smith

Live Mountain Think Year Actor Top

But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.

Ridley Scott

World Loved You Creating Smell