Toys famous quotes
05-20-2025
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I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.
-- Adam Savage -
The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
-- Adam Savage -
Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.
-- Allen Klein -
PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.
-- Ben Affleck -
Sin then is not a toy with which to play but a terror to be shunned.
-- Billy Graham -
Haruhi: Whaddaya think I am?! The Twins: To us? Why that's obvious-- a toy!
-- Bisco Hatori -
...Right now there's a pair of bad cops on their way out here to shoot me." "You don't know that." "Yeah, you're right," Stranahan said. "They're probably just collecting Toys for Tots. Now go.
-- Carl Hiaasen -
I was one of those kids who took apart their toys to see how they work, just to see what they were made up of.
-- Chad Hurley -
When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining.
-- Cher -
I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.
-- Christian Slater -
I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.
-- Craig McCracken -
A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.
-- D. A. Carson -
There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
-- Daniel Craig -
I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.
-- Debi Thomas -
It's very easy to turn a toy into an adult toy: Location, location, location.
-- Demetri Martin -
Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death.
-- Desmond Morris -
You try to be young, maybe you like to have a few toys, but it's not the most important thing in life.
-- Diego Della Valle -
They [zebras] looked like highly varnished animated toys.
-- Elspeth Huxley -
When I was 8, my favorite toy was a stapler. My brother was afraid of me.
-- Emily Procter -
My dream is to star in an animated movie and to have a toy made after me.
-- Ester Dean -
By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?
-- Fannie Flagg -
We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
-- Feisal Abdul Rauf -
If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.
-- Freeman Dyson -
A model is such a fascinating toy that you fall in love with your creation.
-- Freeman Dyson -
My petal. Westminster’s toy had tea issues. Thank Biffy and Lyall. Toodle pip. A.
-- Gail Carriger -
I 'ad a toy when I was little,' said Suzy. She frowned for a moment, then added, 'Can't remember what it was. It moved and made me laugh...
-- Garth Nix -
I collect stuffed animals, and toy stores make me happy.
-- Grace Slick -
My philosophy is "Where is it written that at 40 you give up all your toys?" If I'm still having a great time doing something, I'm going to keep on doing it.
-- Guy Fieri -
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.
-- Herman Wouk -
Sports is the toy department of human life.
-- Howard Cosell -
Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.
-- Howard Rheingold -
People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
-- Idries Shah -
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
-- James Broughton -
I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her life before me, I reassembled the tableau of her words like a picture puzzle, and as I did, so my own life was rebuilt.
-- James McBride -
If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty.
-- Jamie Zawinski -
See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.
-- Jamie Zawinski -
If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.
-- Jamie Zawinski -
A child can have too many toys, but never enough books.
-- Jarrett J. Krosoczka -
I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.
-- Jason Mewes -
I'm more into the Spawn toys. They're really cool. They're coming out with a Techno Spawn series and another series, The Dark Ages, which are really cool.
-- Jason Mewes -
It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this makes it easier for the shippers. ... If they had to spend hours and hours putting handlebars onto bicycles ... they would repent their ways and deliver something that looked like a rocking horse and not like the result of a small street accident.
-- Jean Kerr -
Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if some manufacturer would make a toy as tough, as staunch, as hard to crack open as the carton it comes in!
-- Jean Kerr -
I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.
-- Joanna Lumley -
Alright, he's chucking his toys out the basket and Gary Shaw has a big mouth and shouts a lot.
-- Joe Calzaghe -
To a real child anything will serve as a toy.
-- John Cowper Powys -
Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
-- John Lasseter -
With 'Toy Story,' which is a fantastic film but is essentially animation, you get to make all your decisions beforehand. 'Jumanji' is shot much like any other action film.
-- Joseph E. Johnston -
I want to have a little toy version of Morgana. I can then show it to my grandchildren one day. So I can say I used to have a waist.
-- Katie McGrath -
Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other,
-- Keith Thibodeaux -
God has given us a universe. It's really an expensive toy with no instructions. We're gonna break it sooner or later.
-- Kevin Maurer -
I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
-- Lance Bass -
I'll bet you could make a woman throw out all her toys
-- Larissa Ione -
Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.
-- Marc Andreessen -
Women will not, for many a year, perhaps never, descend again to the status of toys.
-- Margery Wilson -
In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend
-- Mark Lawrence -
I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys.
-- Martin Yan -
As men get older, the toys get more expensive.
-- Marvin Davis -
I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free.
-- Michael Bay -
When I was four, I just wanted to drive, I collected toy cars. Where does that sort of thing come from? In hindsight you go, 'Oh, liked it because of this.' Maybe it's just the wheel.
-- Michael Fassbender -
To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys.
-- Michael Keaton -
My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn`t put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
-- Nastassja Kinski -
Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
-- Nat King Cole -
Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.
-- Neil Gaiman -
I'm half-Japanese, so I collect toys, like a Yayoi Kusama stuffed pumpkin.
-- Nicola Formichetti -
But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.
-- Paolo Bacigalupi -
All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.
-- Paul Laurence Dunbar -
Toy Story we found, sorta by accident, because we didnt know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.
-- Pete Docter -
I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.
-- Placido Domingo -
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller -
Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.
-- Richard Le Gallienne -
What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy.
-- River Phoenix -
The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson -
While other kids played with cars and toys, I listened to music all day. I wanted to sing it and learn it.
-- Robin Thicke -
Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
90% of toys are made in china, which technically makes the chinese elves
-- Sean Lock -
Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.
-- Shahrukh Khan -
The life we live is just a colourful and deposit toy. Some of us take it so seriously and fight and cry for it. Some of us break and throw it. Either we give extreme importance, either not enough. Better to stay far from extremes.
-- Shams Tabrizi -
You can't teach an old dog new dog new tricks. Now,you can give an old dog new toys. And we've got one here!
-- Si Robertson -
It's toys, boy, all toys. You'll see more and more contraptions as you get older, but if I teach you anything, you'll learn that all of this is decoration. What counts is what's inside you and what you can see in others.
-- Stefan Petrucha -
Disruption on the first day always looks like a toy…
-- Steve Blank -
To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate.
-- Susan Stewart -
Toy Empressario Wonder Afficianado Avid Shoewearer
-- Suzanne Weyn -
You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day.
-- Thomas Friedman -
The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect — to help people work together — and not as a technical toy.
-- Tim Berners-Lee -
My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.
-- Tracey Ullman -
If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.
-- Tris Speaker
