“Laughter is a holy thing. It is as sacred as music and silence and solemnity, maybe more sacred. Laughter is like a prayer, like a bridge over which creatures tiptoe to meet each other. Laughter is like mercy; it heals. When you can laugh at yourself, you are free.” PlayFunPrayerSilenceLaughingHolyCreaturesLaughterMercySacredHealBridgesLaugh At YourselfSolemnityTiptoes Book:Tracks in the Straw: Tales Spun from the Manger Source: Tracks in the Straw: Tales Spun from the Manger
“In college I was one of six males who auditioned for five male roles in a comedy play. I was the one rejected. At that moment I made up my mind never to place myself at the mercy of some pompous, goateed, black-turtleneck-shirted "should I yay him or nay him?" pantywaist ever again.” ShouldMindMadePlayMomentsBlackRolesFiveComedyCollegeSixMercyMalesThat MomentShould IRejectedPompousTurtlenecksYay Author:Emo Philips
“I think of Mercy Watson like a superball; there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play, and she makes me laugh. Hopefully readers feel the same way.” ThinkingWayFeelsKindPlayStoriesLaughingReaderOptimismMercyHopefullyThink Of MeWatsonMake Me Laugh Author:Kate DiCamillo
“Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.” IfsLittlesBookPlayKidsHurtAirBrotherMercyDown AndExcitementRisingLeapCrashLittle KidOlder BrotherUp In The AirRising UpSeesaw Author:Anne Lamott
“and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say and she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home and it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not alone up up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people” PeopleKnowsGivingTryingLooksDoneEnoughPlayHomeMovingSpaceHalfAirIntegrityProveMercyLimbsNot AloneSpiresSteeples Author:Ani DiFranco
“I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body, but there is no chance, my god, no chance. rat with rat dog with dog hog with hog, play the piano drunk listen to the drunk piano, realize the myth of mercy stand still as even a child's voice snarls and we have not been fooled, it was only that we wanted to believe.” IfsBelieveHumansHeartChildrenStillsPlayBodyEyeWantedVoiceRealizingChanceDogMountainMercyMythDrunkDustPianoScreamRatsFooledHogHead And Heart Author:Charles Bukowski
“There are a lot of memories we imagine. We play them over and over in our minds, trying to orchestrate our movements and words to perfection. Or maybe it's just that I've lived inside of my head more than any other person in the history of the world. Maybe none of us can really predict how we will act at any give moment. Maybe we're all at the mercy of circumstance in spite of our well-laid plans.” WorldGivingTryingMindWellsPersonsPlayMomentsMemoriesImaginePlansMovementCircumstancesPerfectionMercySpiteWorld History Author:Mary E. Pearson
“Werewolf games,' Mercy said solemnly, 'play for keeps, or go home.' She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.” HeartMadeSaidSometimesPlayHomeGamesHurtMercyCuteAdamWerewolfHeart Hurts Author:Patricia Briggs
“Oh Lord, help me change my ways, Show a litlle mercy on judgement day, It aint me I was raised this way, Never let em' play me for a busta, Makin' hell for a huslter.” WayPlayHelpingShowsLordHellMercyRaisedMy WayJudgementHelp MeEmsRapperJudgement DayLord Help Me Author:Tupac Shakur
“Be kindly and just in your dealings with your men. Never play favorites. Make them feel that justice tempered with mercy may always be counted on. This does not mean a slackening of discipline. Obedience to orders and regulations must always be insisted upon, and good conduct on the part of the men exacted. Especially should this be done with reference to civilian inhabitants of foreign countries in which Marines are serving.” MenFeelsShouldMayMeanDoeCountryDonePlayOrderJusticeHe ManDisciplineMercyObedienceServingRegulationMarineCiviliansMarine CorpsDealingsForeign Countries Author:John A. Lejeune
“. . . I do think that deep down, a lot of my work is about people trying to make reasonable accommodations of situations that are insane or absurd. . . . At first I thought the events had power in themselves, that I would just present them. I really wasn't aware of the things that finally became central issues to me - the shifting alliances, the way people hardly even know they've shifted. That part of [A QUESTION OF MERCY] is very familiar to me in terms of my other plays.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayTryingFirstsPlayTermSituationIssuesEventsMercyFamiliarAbsurdInsaneCraftsReasonableShiftingAlliancesDeep DownAccommodations Author:David Rabe