
Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 96
("Leela" is more commonly spelled "Lila")
A collection of quotes on the topic of playground, life, play, doing.
Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 96
("Leela" is more commonly spelled "Lila")
“The game of sociology goes on in a spacious playground.”
Source: Invitation to Sociology (1963), p. 29
Source: The Happiness Myth: The Historical Antidote to What Isn't Working Today
1920s, The Democracy of Sports (1924)
Speaking to a Massachusetts tea party group http://www.mediaite.com/online/andrew-breitbart-to-tea-partiers-we-outnumber-liberals-and-we-have-the-guns/ (September 16, 2011)
“The digital playground is an incredibly cruel playground.”
The Keys to Well-being in Students, Presentation to the X NIS International Conference, Astana, Kazakhstan, 26 October 2017 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8hG_p7sujU)
"Interview: Benjamin Zephaniah" by John Hind, TheGuardian.com (18 July 2010) https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/18/benjamin-zephaniah-life-on-a-plate.
Source: Reflections on the Human Condition (1973), p. 20
This World: Playground or Battleground? pp. 5-6
Source: The History of Childhood (1974), Ch. 1, The Evolution of Childrearing, opening paragraph.
"The Big Sleep" from "Everything Goes Numb" (2003) http://risc.perix.co.uk/lyrics/sm/egn/12/
“Always a playground instructor, never a Killer”
An American Prayer (1978)
All available evidence, however, points to the contrary.
Bongo in Childhood Is Hell (1988)
Source: Crazy Sexy Diet (2011), Ch. 7
Source: 2000s, Wars of Blood and Faith: The Conflicts That Will Shape the Twenty-First Century (2007), p. 332
"Out on a Limb." Details Magazine. October 1996.
1920s, The Democracy of Sports (1924)
Song "Playground In My Mind" (1973)
Introduction, to Can Life Prevail? (2004) ISBN 978-1-907166-00-6
Kenneth Minogue in National Review, November 18, 1991, cited in: fortnightlyreview.co.uk http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2013/07/quick-define-quadratic-equation/, 2013/07
“My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.”
One-liners
“Lack of verifiability was a paranoiac’s playground paradise.”
Source: From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain (2007), Chapter 7 “Who Are You, Really? Secret Origins and Secret Shames” (p. 192)
That’s not nice, it isn’t nice.
"The Catholic church is a force for good in the world", November 7th 2009, Abridged Intelligence² debate speech.
2000s
1960, Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American
Source: Invitation to Sociology (1963), Chapter 1
Source: Icke's 2016 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkcqBQyCVD8 on the Richie Allen Show (starts at 01:39:49)
Source: Memoirs, Unreliable Memoirs (1980), p. 105
Interview: Sam Raimi on ASH VS. EVIL DEAD, DARKMAN and THE LAST OF US https://www.comingsoon.net/horror/news/747524-interview-sam-raimi-ash-vs-evil-dead-darkman-last-us#/slide/1 (October 26, 2015)
NINJA RESPECTS ALL WOMANS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv8UnA_1Os8 (15 August 2018)
2018, NINJA RESPECTS ALL WOMANS
"Rancho Cielito" Ontario Review, No. 65, (Fall/Winter, 2006-07)
2000-09
Nobel Prize Lecture (1993)
Context: There is and will be rousing language to keep citizens armed and arming; slaughtered and slaughtering in the malls, courthouses, post offices, playgrounds, bedrooms and boulevards; stirring, memorializing language to mask the pity and waste of needless death. There will be more diplomatic language to countenance rape, torture, assassination. There is and will be more seductive, mutant language designed to throttle women, to pack their throats like paté-producing geese with their own unsayable, transgressive words; there will be more of the language of surveillance disguised as research; of politics and history calculated to render the suffering of millions mute; language glamorized to thrill the dissatisfied and bereft into assaulting their neighbors; arrogant pseudo-empirical language crafted to lock creative people into cages of inferiority and hopelessness.
"Oxford from Without"
All Things Considered (1908)
Context: It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke — that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.
“In fact, of course, science is an unparalleled playground of the imagination”
"Reflections on 'A Conversation With Einstein's Brain'" in The Mind's I (1981), edited by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett
Context: In fact, of course, science is an unparalleled playground of the imagination, populated by unlikely characters with wonderful names (messenger RNA, black holes, quarks) and capable of performing the most amazing deeds: sub-atomic whirling dervishes that can be in several places — everywhere and nowhere — at the same time; molecular hoop-snakes biting their own tails; self-copying spiral staircases bearing coded instructions; miniature keys searching for the locks in which they fit, on floating odysseys in a trillion synaptic gulfs.
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 311
… I can honestly say I've not been tempted to give up veganism in 27 years. I sometimes smell a chip shop and like the smell but then feel guilty because fish might be part of it. But I'll go home and make vegan chips. After all these years, my favourite food is my mother's butter bean stew with whole potatoes, yam and dasheen. I don't think I've ever made a meal for her, to be honest. I think she would consider it a failing of her motherhood and say "Boy, get out the kitchen."
"Interview: Benjamin Zephaniah" by John Hind, TheGuardian.com (18 July 2010) https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/18/benjamin-zephaniah-life-on-a-plate