Toy Quotes
330 Toy quotes by 287 unique authors
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What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to…
— William Shakespeare
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All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Say “no” only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy tea set? Okay.…
— Gretchen Rubin
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People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by…
— James A. Baldwin
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A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs of this world.…
— Haruki Murakami
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Love is like the little red toy wagon you get for your Christmas or your sixth birthday. It makes you deliriously happy and you just…
— Mario Puzo
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She stood in his kitchen, watching him toy with the ring in his lip. It wasn't quite that he was biting it, but sucking it…
— Melissa Marr
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I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out…
— Jennifer McMahon
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— Suzanne Weyn
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Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action.…
— Joseph Campbell
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People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs,…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?
— William Shakespeare
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Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked,…
— Leonard Cohen
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You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I locked the door, for what good it would do me, and went to bed. The Browning Hi-Power was in its second home, a modified…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Rahel’s toy wristwatch had the time painted on it. Ten to two. One of her ambitions was to own a watch on which she could…
— Arundhati Roy
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Are you mad? (Artemis) Yes, I am. Mad at this world where we are nothing to the gods. Mad at the Fates who put us…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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You picked that out?” Caine asked. “That pink, plastic toy?” I turned to look at him. “I happen to have been a little girl, once…
— Jennifer Estep
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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…
— Garth Nix
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I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more…
— Carl Jung
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You toyed with my heart, like it was a toy heart. (Lisa Simpson)
— Matt Groening
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He dropped the rest of the Cokes into the grave and pulled out a white paper bag decorated with cartoons. I hadn’t seen one in…
— Rick Riordan
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Toys "R" Us. Zack put on a wool cap and sunglasses. "You look like a bank robber," I observed. "No toy is safe.
— Joan Bauer
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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 cannot order a…
— Eric Schlosser
Who Wrote These Toy Quotes
287 authors contributed a total of 330 Toy Quotes, led by these top contributors: