In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Most baby books also tend to romanticize the mother who stays at home, as if she really spends her entire day doing… — Susan Chira Copy Share Image
The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it… — Richard Schickel Copy Share Image
Our audience holds us to an incredibly high standard of continuity and emotional authenticity. We don't toy with that, but oftentimes we… — Jeff Pinkner Copy Share Image
Because for me to go fully experimental, it would turn into an artist book actually. And I'm not opposed to that. But… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I love helicopters. In fact, my wife and my friends, the myth of the chopper in the sky is that Len's going… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
He dropped the rest of the Cokes into the grave and pulled out a white paper bag decorated with cartoons. I hadn’t… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Many people are caught up with the toys of contemporary society. Because of great advancements in our culture, some have cultivated an… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
I'm a big kid. I never lost my childlike appreciation of things. Too many people lock it out and throw their toys… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed. While LEGOs are sold in kits in order to build specific… — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
When I first met my girlfriend, Mercy Malick, she asked me if there was anything I should tell her that could put… — Joseph Gatt Copy Share Image
“If little else, the brain is an educational toy. The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is that other people want… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I like using LEGO bricks as a medium because I enjoy seeing people’s reaction to artwork created from something with which they… — Nathan Sawaya Copy Share Image
“The men in grey were powerless to meet this challenge head-on. Unable to detach the children from Momo by bringing them under… — Michael Ende, Momo Copy Share Image
My father worked in a toy store. He used to give toys to the head of police when he would shop for… — Haim Saban Copy Share Image
We've never pulled from the toy line. We've always pulled from the mythology. What's great is there's so much mythology, so there's… — Lorenzo di Bonaventura Copy Share Image
The more I think about it, the more I realize that schools are just factories for turning out robots, that's all. They… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
We've been trained to spend money since we were born with all these commercials with toys and G.I. Joes and Transformers. But… — Donald Faison Copy Share Image
I used to think being in the West would be incredible and then when I was nine my parents moved us to… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
I'm not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I didn't think that and I didn't verbalize that to myself or within meetings that we ever had, but we wanted to… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
I was a kid in the third grade ... saw a dummy in the toy store. In the '60s and '70s there… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
You’re like Marilyn Monroe,’ Ken tells me, which I take as a compliment and say a nervous “Thank You”. Interrupting, he adds,… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When I was 5 or 6 years old, I never wanted toys; I wanted electrical parts so I could build things. And… — John Sculley Copy Share Image
Every kid has a toy that they believe is their best friend, that they believe communicates with them, and they imagine it… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have… — Callan McAuliffe Copy Share Image
It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Today the challenge is not visuals, but to be able to tell a riveting emotional story, something that can reach deep down… — Gabriel Campisi Copy Share Image
Today the U.S. government can demand the nation-wide recall of defective softball bats, sneakers, stuffed animals, and foam-rubber toy cows. But it… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
In these days of high-tech video games, it's remarkable that kids once got incredibly thrilled while pushing little metal racing cars around… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Man prefers to blame himself for all possible sins and crimes rather than come to the conclusion that God is capable of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When I was creative director [at Estée Lauder], I was always being asked about my beauty must-haves. From there I had this… — Aerin Lauder Copy Share Image
I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“The observation turned into insight for LEGO. The company, says Smith- Meyer, had fallen into the trap of thinking that play habits… — Anonymous Copy Share Image