Toys Quotes - Page 24

• What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page thats really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm.

  Henry Selick

  Dark, Add, Littles

  "Henry Selick on his 'medium dark' stop-motion movie for Disney" by Rebecca Keegan, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 27, 2012.

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• I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It's something I just fell into and really liked.

  Jason Wu

  Fashion, Years, Careers

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• Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

  Freeman Dyson

  Technology, Ethics, Rich

  Freeman J. Dyson (2016). “Dear Professor Dyson: Twenty Years of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson and Undergraduate Students on Science, Technology, Society and Life”, p.347, World Scientific

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• Sin then is not a toy with which to play but a terror to be shunned.

  Billy Graham

  Play, Sin, Terror

  Billy Graham (2013). “The Reason for My Hope: Salvation”, p.44, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My inclination during sex always is to use sex toys. That's not something men are often used to.

  Margaret Cho

  Sex, Men, Use

  "Margaret Cho Is Here, Queer, And Taking Questions About Anything". Interview with Ariane Lange, www.buzzfeed.com. January 21, 2015.

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• The nerds provide the toys that distract the morons. So the nerds are sort of the new drug-dealers. We're the drug dealers of the 21st century because we provide all the brain candy for the mouth-breathers, for lack of a better word.

  Chris Hardwick

  Drug, Nerd, Brain

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Whenever I hear about a child needing something, I ask myself, 'Is it what he needs or what he wants?' It isn't always easy to distinguish between the two. A child has many real needs which can and should be satisfied. His wants are a bottomless pit. He wants, for example, to sleep with his parents. He needs to be in his own bed. At Christmas he wants every toy advertised on television. He needs only one or two.

  Haim Ginott

  Children, Real, Sleep

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• 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

  Children, Naughty, Papa

  'A Child's Garden of Verses' (1885) 'System'

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• Girls . . . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . . . Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh, fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about who was dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dolls, creating complex family groups and learning how to solve problems through negotiation and roleplaying. Which gender is better equipped, on the whole, to live an adult life, would you guess?

  Garrison Keillor

  Girl, War, Fighting

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• Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of play culture imposed by adults.

  David Elkind

  Children, Play, Adults

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• Everything from toy guns that spark
  To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
  It's easy to see without looking too far
  That not much is really sacred.

  Bob Dylan

  Dark, Gun, Flesh

  Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home

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• The great passion in a man's life may not be for women or men or wealth or toys or fame, or even for his children, but for his masculinity, and at any point in his life he may be tempted to throw over the things for which he regularly lays down his life for the sake of that masculinity. He may keep this passion secret from women, and he may even deny it to himself, but the other boys know it about themselves and the wiser ones know it about the rest of us as well.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Passion, Boys

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• I've found that I snack less and concentrate better when I chew on a plastic stirrer - the kind that you get to stir your to-go coffee. I picked up this habit from my husband, who loves to chew on things. His favorite chew-toy is a plastic pen top, and gnawed pen tops and little bits of plastic litter our apartment.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Husband, Coffee, Snacks

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• a fortress against ideas and against the
  Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors
  The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy
  Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.

  Louis MacNeice

  Men, Ideas, Crumbling

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.44, Faber & Faber

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• Most baby books also tend to romanticize the mother who stays at home, as if she really spends her entire day doing nothing but beaming at the baby and whipping up educational toys from pieces of string, rather than balancing cooing time with laundry, cleaning, shopping and cooking.

  Susan Chira

  Mother, Baby, Educational

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• For should your hands drop white and empty
  All the toys of the world would break.

  John Frederick Nims

  Hands, White, World

  John Frederick Nims (1944). “Selected Poems”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

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• I like to make my voice sound like a piece of tin that's been stuck on the side of a chair, lifted up as far as it would go and then let to spring - "doooiiinng." I like to make it into a piece of metal from time to time and I can do it, both with the movements in my throat and with, uh, my little toys... So I like to take it beyond just a voice, more into the realms of a weapon.

  Robert Plant

  Spring, Voice, Sound

  "New Again: Robert Plant". Interview With Emily McDermott, Mark Ginsburg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 12, 2013.

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• I had to get a driver's license and drive to St. Louis to find the punk-rock scene that was happening there. And there was a punk-rock scene. It was sweet. It was real. It was like everywhere else in the county. It was a handful of people who were feeling the same pull, and, of course, it was like the Island of Misfit Toys in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer [1964]. Just the freaks, the fags, the fat girls, the unbelievable eccentrics .

  Michael Stipe

  Girl, Sweet, Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a film geek man. I love toys. I love everything in filmmaking, so for me to just be around this technology is just so cool to watch it being used for the first time, some of the stuff.

  Zach Braff

  Technology, Men, Watches

  "Zach Braff Talks Working on a Large-Scale Epic, Collaborating with Sam Raimi, 3D Technology, and More on the Set of OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL". collider.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Gerry Fialka's annual PXL THIS is a reliably surprising and seductive round-up of recent work achieved with the PXL 2000 camera. This humble outdated “toy” continues to bring out the visionary child in filmmakers and viewers alike, and no one has kept the PXL flame burning longer or brighter than Gerry.

  Michael Almereyda

  Children, Humble, Flames

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• I wanted the Andy of Toy Story 3 to be right on the cusp, straddling childhood and adulthood ... I wanted to find this sweet spot where he had gotten tall and had clearly grown up but still retained many boyish qualities, including a boyish charm.

  Lee Unkrich

  Sweet, Childhood, Quality

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• Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Children, Religion, Fancy

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• As far as we are concerned, we are not the toys of any country, including the United States.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, United States, Concerned

  Said at the "Meet the Press" program in July 1973. "His Imperial Majesty Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Shahanshah, Aryamehr: an operational code". Book by William W. Sitz, archive.org. 1975.

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• Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the heartlessness, the frivolity which is the necessary result of this false and debasing estimate of women, can only be fully understood by those who have mingled in the folly and wickedness of fashionable life.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Heart, Men, Mind

  "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman" by Sarah Moore Grimke, Letter 8, 1837.

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• The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in the ears, a dizzinessor disturbance of balance. One arrives in the garden again, at nursery time, when the gentle animals are fed and in all the world there are only toys.

  William H. Gass

  Drinking, Eye, Animal

  William H. Gass (1978). “The world within the word: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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