Quotes About Figurines

#1. You still think like a child, don't you? Clay figurines sunk to their ankles in the sand, one here, one there, standing just so. One says this, the other says that, then you reach down and rearrange them accordingly. Scenes, vistas, stark with certainty.

Steven Erikson

#2. Finn is God: So much for Earth Day. I totally screwed things up and started celebrating the wrong planet. Now I have to collect all these stupid trademarked dog figurines that I distributed all of the yard. At least it's better than last year's mistake when I had butt statues everywhere.

Jessica Park

#3. Where are you taking us?" Nico said.
"You should be honored, my boy. You will have the opportunity to join a great army! Just like that silly game you play with cards and dolls."
"They're not dolls! They're figurines! And you can take your great army and -

Rick Riordan

#4. Human beings have always been creative. The guys who were making the pyramids.. and archaeological research has showed us this.. had little figurines made by the workers, to express their devotion to their god.

Bill Viola

#5. Like I need to play on the Wii when you're there willing to f*** me. Video games are what men invented to fill the sex void. Any man who chooses video games over sex deserves to live in his mother's basement with his mint-condition, in box Star Wars figurines and his real doll.

Lauren Dane

#6. I don't sound disloyal, but I've never had a pair of Marvel pyjamas or underwear. I do have a lot of Marvel figurines at home in a cabinet. Every time they make a new Marvel figure I put it in my cabinet.

Stan Lee

#7. [On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life - rather than death and the fear of death - were dominant in society as well as art.

Riane Eisler

#8. Figurines and souvenirs and kickshaws and mementos and gewgaws and bric-a-brac, everything either useless to begin with or ornamented so as to disguise its use; acres of luxuries, acres of excrement.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#9. How silly were the idolaters of old, who knelt before the clumsy wooden figurines of their own making! We are wiser now. We kneel before mirrors.

Anthony Esolen

#10. Cromwell informed me I'd only have the keys to my car once I'd earned his trust back. His trust? Like I was the creeptastic person who whipped kids off the street and collected them like figurines?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#11. Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines.

Jon Ronson

#12. I couldn't see where the collection of Burger King figurines fit in, but I supposed there was no reason why psychopaths shouldn't have unrelated hobbies.

Jon Ronson

#13. Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the etagere.(Opening page, 3)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#14. St. Clair wanders around, picking up things and examining them like I did in Meredith's room. He inspects the collection of banana and elephant figurines lined up on my dresser. He holds up a glass elephant and raises his dark eyebrows in question.

Stephanie Perkins

#15. The bottom line is: if you were a jerk in your original life, you're probably going to be a bigger undead jerk, If you were a decent person, say a juvenile-services librarian with a secret collection of unicorn figurines, you're probably going to be a kinder, gentler vampire.

Molly Harper

#16. The way I played the game, the way I live my life, is very emotional.

Brett Favre

#17. The entire universe will eventually disintegrate but by then I hope to be in a safer place.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#18. The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.

George S. Kaufman

#19. he spoke with so much simplicity that it was evident he spoke the truth, or that he was mad.

Alexandre Dumas

#20. Next to the disapproval of our friends, the approval of our enemies is most to be dreaded.

Octave Feuillet

#21. Love has no size.

Zephyr McIntyre

#22. The tactics ... no, amateurs discuss tactics, ... Professional soldiers study logistics.

Tom Clancy

#23. When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.

Charlotte Lennox

#24. It's time for the government to scale back, not for people of faith to scale back!

Mike Huckabee

#25. You're going to make me want to keep you.

J. Lynn

#26. Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

T.E. Lawrence

#27. Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

Bruce Lipton

#28. A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.

Brian Setzer

#29. Professor Raylene's ground breaking study found that subjects with Tourrette's Syndrome burned more calories than Lutherans.

Chris Dolley

#30. Really? You've started drinking whiskey before lunch?" Rush wasn't giving in ...
"He's fucking your sister. Hell, anyone that stupid has to drink to stay sane," Dean said in a bored tone.

Abbi Glines