A nursery rhyme shapes your bones and nerves, and it shapes your mind. They are powerful, nursery rhymes, and immensely old, and… — Katherine Catmull Copy Share Image
Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As a boy I had liked both drawing and physics, and I always abhorred the role of being a spectator. In 1908,… — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses—and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives,… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Perhaps Westerners are in a better position to practice true renunciation than uneducated Orientals because most Western people, by the time they… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
When you aren't drinking or using drugs or spending lots of money on fancy toys or basking in the glow of fame… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are times when you need to step back and realize that movie studios today are not necessarily the same things that… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular,… — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
“The imaginary child implied by the toys on exhibit in Hong Kong was impossible to reconcile with my actual child. I didn't… — Donovan Hohn Copy Share Image
This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
It's not Comic Con any more. It's this huge marketplace for the motion picture and television industry. And the toy manufacturer's and… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
As for me, I want to have fun while I'm working. Now not everyone thinks physics is fun, but I do. I… — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
A very important part of my workday are the two Nunzillas on my windowsill. They keep me constant company. They're little windup… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
So let's raise the tone of the debate. Too often at the moment we look like schoolchildren squabbling over a toy -… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
When people go to museums and see a sculpture made out of marble, they appreciate it but it's very doubtful that they… — Nathan Sawaya Copy Share Image
I locked the door, for what good it would do me, and went to bed. The Browning Hi-Power was in its second… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
“What exists beneath the sea? I’d always pictured it in colors of emerald and aquamarine, where black velvet fish with sequined eyes… — Kelly Easton Copy Share Image
I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“There were guns on the coffee table. Like, a lot of them, broken out on cloths, being cleaned, leaned against a nearby… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys--and plenty of leisure and scope… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I… — Goran Ivanisevic Copy Share Image
The marketplace for books when I entered the business shortly after World War II consisted of a thousand or so well stocked… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
Oh! how should all hearts be taken with this Christ? Christians! turn your eyes upon the Lord: 'Look, and look again unto… — Isaac Ambrose Copy Share Image
These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a toy made of paper children use to play with.… — Henri Coanda Copy Share Image
All these things, social media or [smart] phones or the things that distract us from each other, are fairly new. They're all… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
TIME WENT ON, life with the children unfolding in its own ecosystem, small plastic toys seeming to grow up from the carpet… — Erica Bauermeister Copy Share Image