Top 100 Quotes About A Doll
#1. I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
David Byrne
#2. Because I am a doll, and a servant. Because I am a pretty thing and a soldier all the same.
Leigh Bardugo
#3. I used to be the youngest person on the set [of Bored To Death]. Now I'm very often the oldest person on the set. I feel lucky about that, to be honest. Lena [Dunham], by the way is a doll to me. So much fun to work with and really open.
Richard Masur
#4. There can be such a sky, and such
A play of rays, that our heart feels
An insult to a doll is more
Piteous than an insult to oneself.
("It Happened at Vallen-Koski")
Innokenty Annensky
#5. I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!
Susan B. Anthony
#6. Mirror, mirror, on the wall, show me the one who thinks Sir Nomer is a dumb name for a doll.
Chanda Hahn
#7. You are nothing but a doll. Nothing but a doll
doll
doll! You care for nothing. You are stuffed with sawdust. You never had a heart. Nothing could ever make you feel. You are a doll!
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#8. I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll's body. Sickness begins here; I am a dartboard for witches.
Sylvia Plath
#9. And that was when she had one single, awful realization. It's not a doll. And against all her best intentions, she began to scream and couldn't stop.
Rachel Caine
#10. Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll. It does not mean that everything in life is relative.
Albert Einstein
#11. It is said that children do not distinguish between living and inanimate objects; I believe they do. A child imparts a doll or tin soldier with magical life-breath. The artist animates his work as the child his toys.
Patti Smith
#12. I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would not be weak, or helpless again
I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.
Sarah J. Maas
#13. His mouth was small, but bowed. Like a doll's. She wondered if he had trouble opening it wide enough to eat apples.
Rainbow Rowell
#14. There could be no snakes in Quintana Roo's garden.
Only later did I see that I had been raising her as a doll.
Joan Didion
#15. I relate to Nora's transformation in Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll's House,' and I also relate to both sisters' journeys in John Madden's film 'Proof.'
Autumn Reeser
#16. A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.
Alan Beck
#17. It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.
Raymond Chandler
#18. You're like a doll I had when I was a kid. She was all stiched together and her head kept falling off, but I loved that doll. That's what you look like. Like somebody just loved you to death.
Dia Reeves
#19. Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile.
Helena Bonham Carter
#20. There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
Verne Troyer
#21. If I killed them, you know, they couldn't reject me as a man. It was more or less making a doll out of a human being ... and carrying out my fantasies with a doll, a living human doll.
Edmund Kemper
#22. Maybe they're customers. (Simone)
For a doll store? Yes, I can just see them now ... I'll take the frilly pink baby doll. (Liza)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#24. Yeah, yeah. I'm pretty as a doll. You can braid my hair tomorrow.
K.A. Merikan
#25. What makes horror movies work is the idea that "oh my God, what would I do if I were in that situation? How would I get out of that alive? What would I do if I saw the door to my closet creaking open in the middle of the night and a doll on a tricycle comes riding out?"
James Wan
#27. He swept his hand, indicating me from head to toe. "It's like you just broke your seal and slipped out of your plastic wrap".
"Why does everything you say sound obscene?"
"You look like a doll that's never been played with. That's all I'm saying. I can't help it if you have a dirty mind
Kat Falls
#28. I'll tell u boys it's tough to be alone,
and it's tough to love a doll that's not ur own.
Arthur Miller
#29. History
Coming too close
Is monstrous, like a doll
That is alive and bigger than the child
Who tries to hold it.
Babette Deutsch
#30. When I was young if a girl married poor, she became a housekeeper and a drudge. If she married wealthy, she became a pet and a doll. - Susan B. Anthony A
Gail Collins
#31. Now a doll found naked in a ditch
eyes rusted open, is blasphemy.
Deborah Digges
#32. A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children. from chapter VIII of Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
#33. I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together
Tennessee Williams
#34. I got a tattoo saying 'Made in England' above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.
Cara Delevingne
#35. A doll is a witness who cannot die, with a doll you are never alone. On the long journey under the earth, in the boat with two prows, there were always dolls.
Margaret Atwood
#36. I hate formal stuff. I love looking like a doll and all that stuff and playing dress up, but when I'm home, sweat pants, t-shirt. When I'm in the studio, sweat pants, t-shirt.
Nicki Minaj
#37. His eyes were like a doll's eyes, lifeless, black and empty as if he had no soul. With a devious smile he nodded as if to acknowledge "game on", the battle is now joined.
Daniel Michael Giovanni
#38. The Chelsea was like a doll's house in the Twilight Zone, with a hundred rooms, each a small universe.
Patti Smith
#39. Poor model of a soul ... that couldn't become a human, a creature, or even a doll without feelings. It never should have been created at all.
Minari Endou
#40. He said, You're so tiny, like a doll, you look like you might break. I wanted him to break me. Part of me did.
Francesca Lia Block
#41. The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life ... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
Bill Watterson
#42. Adam Lambert is one of my best friends. I've known him since he was an understudy in 'Wicked.' Such a doll.
Alessandra Torresani
#43. With her long dark hair and green eyes, she was pretty as a doll. You know, the kind of doll that came to life at night to kill monsters.
Alyxandra Harvey
#44. But something had shifted, some balance. I felt shrunken, so that when he put his arms around me, gathering me up, I was as small as a doll. I felt love going forward without me.
Margaret Atwood
#45. Even while starting out I took things very seriously; I wasn't the sort of kid that would do a doll commercial or do a series for Nickelodeon. They asked me to do silly things, and I wasn't a silly kid.
Kristen Stewart
#46. The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll's frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than suspected of having swallowed a fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter! The immense relief of finding this a false alarm! The joy, and gratitude, and ecstasy!
Charles Dickens
#47. To see a doll of yourself is very weird and very neat at the same time.
Thuy Trang
#48. Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
Tao Okamoto
#49. I will try to make a doll of Oksana with a little dog.
Oksana Baiul
#50. A nation has no conscience. How can it be aroused? A eunuch in bed with a doll is not disturbed.
Will D. Campbell
#51. Blank eyes. Empty eyes. A doll's eyes. Eyes more dead than death.
Robert Jordan
#52. Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
Mark Twain
#54. I should say I am far more cleverer than any of the people who put me here. As a matter of fact, I could leave any time I wanted. It's only a doll house after all. Anyway, I don't mind. I like dolls.
Particularly the live ones.
Grant Morrison
#55. I'm a little disappointed. You spent five years in London and all I get is a doll?" "The real gift was my absence." Finally, a smile.
Anthony Marra
#56. I keep telling myself that I'm a human being, an imperfect human being who's not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.
Emma Watson
#57. It's embarrassing to tell you how much my friends make fun of me. Seriously, when you have a doll made of your face, it's ridiculous how creative your friends can get ... pictures, videos, little animated cartoons that they've made.
Channing Tatum
#58. But the melancholy of Worlorn's dying forests had seeped into his flesh, and he saw Gwen through tainted eyes, a doll figure in a suit as faded as despair.
George R R Martin
#59. A doll with skin like that isn't going to mess it up with a revolver shot. [ ... ] Revolvers are meant for crocodile-skins like ours.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#61. I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.
Taylor Momsen
#63. It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.
Rumer Godden
#64. For months, my parents had been trying to prepare me for the arrival of a real sibling. They had given me a doll to play with and encouraged me to take care of her. And when the baby, a little boy they named Rahm, finally arrived, they encouraged me to help take care of him, too.
Ezekiel Emanuel
#65. I traveled with my mother, Lela, and there was never enough money. I always had to roll down my silk stockings and carry a doll when we bought train tickets so I could go half-fare. If we had $3, we always figured how to tip for the trunks and still eat.
Ginger Rogers
#66. I believe that a girl begins life as a doll her mother can dress up as she pleases, a mirror where her mother's fancies are reflected; but as she grows older, her own nature begins to show.
Minae Mizumura
#67. I always carry pictures of my children and grandchildren, which is what makes it all worthwhile. It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in Alice in Wonderland or a doll with grandma's dress.
Colleen Atwood
#68. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
Susan B. Anthony
#69. Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.
Grover Norquist
#70. I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.
David Walliams
#71. People give me things at shows-the Robot from Japan. What I would treasure the most is a little doll of the general from the movie-and if they don't make it, I'll make my own and bring it to shows and sign it.
Mark Goddard
#72. Well, I don't even know how to drive in this life, so I'm pretty far from ever having the life of being a stuntdouble. I liked- I had an Evil Knievel doll when i was a kid, that's about it!
John Frusciante
#73. I always try so hard to find a male doll and shoot a male doll, and it always kind of implodes. Whenever I use men, they're so scary and so dark, and I can never find this sort of lightness or this place between doll and human that I find with female dolls.
Laurie Simmons
#74. For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that - maybe I'll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want.
Elle Fanning
#75. Emma felt like a Raggedy Ann doll accidentally mixed in with the Barbies.
Meg Gray
#76. She was beginning to shriek now, sitting there like a wax doll melting in its own heat.
Ray Bradbury
#77. Sometimes I speak to men and women just as a little girl speaks to her doll. She knows, of course, that the doll does not understand her, but she creates for herself the joy of communication through a pleasant and conscious self-deception.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#78. I'm not doing much at all. I mimght as well be a rag doll. Comes complete with matching shoes. Spine sold separately.
Amie Kaufman
#79. In mid-February, when she turned ten, Liesel was given a used doll that had a missing leg and yellow hair. "It was the best we could do," Papa apologized. "What are you talking about? She's lucky to have that much," Mama corrected him.
Markus Zusak
#80. You know, for the record, I hate to take orders. But! I realize I'm in over my head. You have no idea how much I hate all this supernatural garbage. So I'm willing to listen to you, but you better start acting like I'm a person and not some mindless blow-up doll. (Amanda)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#82. To his ex-wife in court, he said I lost interest in you when the Botox lost its effect and you looked like a plastic doll that escaped from a fire.
Peter Jackson
#83. And then I spy something new in her. A loneliness. It makes her look so fragile, like a porcelain doll dangling over a marble floor. She's always been dangling there too, terrified that one day she'll fall and shatter.
Sarah Noffke
#84. I love God, and when you get to know Him, you find He's a Livin' Doll.
Jane Russell
#85. And then there was her face: her white skin, her brown eyes, and her expression, so soft and beautiful; she looked as though she were constantly getting ready to ask a question. Even an immaculately crafted doll could not have been as lovely.
Natsuo Kirino
#86. I had a husband who, I'm convinced, was an undiagnosed manic depressive. He didn't treat me as if I had a brain - I was just this beautiful little doll he could show off.
Britt Ekland
#87. She still felt like a punked-out, faux-leather-wearing, free-thinking Bratz doll in a sea of Pretty Princess of Preppyland Barbies.
Sara Shepard
#88. To this crib I always took my doll; human beigns must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow
Charlotte Bronte
#89. When I was growing up, Brandy was TV star, reality star, a pop star, a Cover girl, Grammy winner, had her own Brandy doll, and was the first African American to play Disney princess Cinderella. Most importantly, she is a survivor. Many only judge and remember a person's most recent failure.
Niecy Nash
#90. She had been built to feel nothing, and trained to feel even less. They had made her incomplete ... She was a broken doll, dancing on the end of their strings.
Dan Wells
#91. If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet?
Well, I can. I'm not so sure about Doll Girl.
Brent Weeks
#92. Suicide doll's suicide
Pretty, but with death there's no way to hide
Afraid to make a cut, see there's nothing inside
If your friends told you to jump off a bridge
You'd step to the edge and fly.
._.
Rae Mariz
#93. He gave the girl a blond-haired Barbie doll from lost and found ... The doll, dressed in ballroom gown and tiara, appeared surprisingly chipper given her emaciated waistline.
Anthony Marra
#94. Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months old. Seeing how strong a feeling of jealousy is in dogs, it would probably be exhibited by infants at any earlier age than just specified if they were tried in a fitting manner
Charles Darwin
#95. Each time he came he would twist my defenceless body into a different pose, as if I were his very own doll
Rachel Abbott
#96. Got you something."
"A portable bath?"
"Better." I pulled out the alien doll. "Made me think of you."
"It looks like you," she said. "I'm going to name it DB.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#97. I had a Super Grover doll growing up. Super Grover was very clumsy, he wasn't very good-looking. But in his own way he'd always save the day.
Dave Grohl
#98. Solveig was higher up than me. She had a white apron. She was the cook. Sieving and singing hymns that her pastor in Sweden had taught her. Her eyes were the beautiful twinkling blue of a sleeping doll.
Edna O'Brien
#99. Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs - all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured. "Here," they said, "this is beautiful, and if you are on this day 'worthy' you may have it.
Toni Morrison
#100. Is she become a rag doll? Are the wolves become children? It seems quite possible, there on the twilight fringes of dying. With some faint spark of herself, the little girl holds on to the idea. Even a rag doll has more life than does a dying child.
Jane Lindskold
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