Quotes About Old Dolls

#1. It is our lot to take what we have, make of it what we will. We are meant to finger the leftovers, rock our old dolls, clutch wooden angels to our breasts.

Jan Seale

#2. I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into in the Seventies. I didn't find out about a lot of the other stuff that was going on, like New York Dolls and Roxy Music, until a lot later.

Buzz Osborne

#3. You never know what you can do until you have to do it.

Betty Ford

#4. I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.

Willie Nelson

#5. Wars today seem to occur at a more precise point in time but deep down they are permanent.

Bernardo Carvalho

#6. We can learn to meet whatever arises with curiosity and not make it such a big deal.

Pema Chodron

#7. I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

Billie Holiday

#8. First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.

Henry Louis Gates

#9. It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly.

John Fowles

#10. A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?

John Dufresne

#11. would he untie her?

Ernie Lindsey

#12. - "Who the fuck is this Harry charakter?" "Superwoman, by all accounts.

Kate Tempest

#13. How do our lives ravel out
into the no-wind, no-sound,
the weary gestures wearily recapitulant:
echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string:
in sunset we fall into furious attitudes,
dead gestures of dolls.

William Faulkner

#14. I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.

Jane Pauley

#15. In the old days it was called voodoo and they stuck needles in dolls, now it's called acupuncture and they stick the needles straight into the person.

Cathy Hopkins

#16. Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their action into violence, their actors to dolls, and their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.

Karen Haber

#17. But Erin let it slide. The child was only four years old; she had a whole lifetime to learn about sadness. Today was for Dalmatians, ice cream and new dolls.

Carl Hiaasen

#18. The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.

Tullian Tchividjian

#19. I love how you still think if you tell me to do something, I'll just check my brain at the door and do it.

C.J. Redwine

#20. It occurs to him that there are different versions of himself to farewell - the abandoned eight-year-old; the delusional soldier who hovered somewhere in hell; the lightkeeper who dared to leave his heart undefended. Like Russian dolls, these lives sit within him.

M.L. Stedman

#21. The secret to selling is to "sell the secret". Your sales presentation should make your product sound like the "best kept secret" in your entire industry.

Troy Clark

#22. Whatever party you're in in America, our troops deserve the full support of our government.

George W. Bush

#23. The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

Bette Davis

#24. Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets.

Carla H. Krueger