Toy With Quotes

#1. Too often there is this sinister greed that pulls at my coattails, subtly whispering in the ear of my soul that it is within my rights to tuck away a few dark trinkets to toy with when the tedium of righteous living gets a bit boring. But God would suggest that I empty my pockets.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#2. I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book ... I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

Groucho Marx

#3. When I'm writing, I generally toy with an idea until it manifests itself - meaning a phrase or a tune comes into my head and eventually begins to jell. When something hits me, I write it down immediately. I don't wait, or it's gone.

Paul Anka

#4. Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?'

Alison Gopnik

#5. This possessiveness you've unleashed and decided to toy with isn't tame. Keep that in mind when you poke the beast... If you let anyone touch you, they die.

Setta Jay

#6. Don't, said Laurent, toy with me. I - have not the means to defend against this.

C.S. Pacat

#7. Find someone else to toy with. We both know I lack experience, so I don't know how to play the game without getting hurt. Besides, I hate games. I prefer knowing straight up what's real and what's bullcrap.

Jeaniene Frost

#8. It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

David Brin

#9. No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.

Yitzhak Rabin

#10. I used to toy with the notion that when we die we find out what our lives have amounted to, finally. I'd never imagined that we could find that out when somebody else dies.

Anne Tyler

#11. Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

Emma Goldman

#12. What is more obscene: the idea that one can apologize for the hubris and deceit that is Obama and his health care, or the actual need some have for an apology from an entity so evil that he would toy with the lives of millions as though they were insects and he God? This is hard to tell.

Ilana Mercer

#13. Don't toy with things that block your light.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#14. As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys
and plenty of leisure and scope to play with them as he likes, and not just the way adults think proper. This is why he must be given this freedom for his play to be successful and truly serve him well.

Bruno Bettelheim

#15. What did you think the answer would be, Elisabeth? I toy with you because I can. Because it gives me great pleasure. Because I was bored.

S. Jae-Jones

#16. Whatever makes you smile and laugh more." His fingers toy with my bottom lip. "Let me make you smile.

K.A. Tucker

#17. Tess was no insignificant creature to toy with and dismiss; but a woman living her precious life - a life which, to herself who endured or enjoyed it, possessed as great a dimension as the life of the mightiest to himself.

Thomas Hardy

#18. I'm going to destroy you, princess. I'll toy with you, tempt you, and give you everything you never knew to ask for.

Setta Jay

#19. If you give desperation any wiggle room, it will toy with you.

Harlan Coben

#20. As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.

Philip Yancey

#21. Love rips the shit out of you and puts you back together like a broken toy, with all kinds of cracks and edges. It's not about the falling in love. It's about the landing, the staying where you said you'd be and working to keep the love strong.

Kristin Hannah

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

Billy Graham

#23. We Jews have put issue upon issue to the American people. Then we promote both sides of the issue as confusion reigns. With their eye's fixed on the issues, they fail to see who is behind every scene. We Jews toy with the American public as a cat toys with a mouse.

Harold Wallace Rosenthal

#24. 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 here for no purpose except to toy with us for their petty amusement. I wish all of the gods were dead and gone. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#25. Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

Nat King Cole

#26. Never say never," he said urgently, rolling back on top of her and using all of his unusually heavy mass to press her deep into the cocoon of her little girl bed. "The gods love to toy with people who use absolutes.

Josephine Angelini

#27. From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it ...

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#28. Don't savor temptations; don't dwell on them or toy with them or replay them over and over in your mind. The more you think about a particular temptation, the more enticing it becomes.

Billy Graham

#29. I am a woman. Not a damp puzzle piece to toy with by your dirty hands. I am a woman. Nothing less, attempting to piece together her truth.

Brandi Gomez

#30. God has given us a universe. It's really an expensive toy with no instructions. We're gonna break it sooner or later.

Kevin Maurer

#31. I like to have fun with them. I like to toy with them a little bit. we're making television, after all. Right?

Phil Keoghan

#32. Desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers

Harlan Coben

#33. The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.

Rachel Cusk

#34. To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate.

Susan Stewart

#35. I did more than just toy with her feelings, didn't I, Stewart?

Alexandra Bracken

#36. Man who TOY with Womans feelings and
emotions are heartless & faithless creatures.
But don't hate them. Show empathy because
they are poor & forgotten souls !

Lily Amis

#37. I don't know"
"When a man says that, it usually means, "No, I won't but from time to time, I'll toy with the idea, so I can pretend i eventually intend to do it.

Robin Hobb

#38. We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#39. And only those watching very carefully saw the Caliph of Khorasan lean back against the cushions and toy with the bangles on his wife's arm.

Renee Ahdieh

#40. The Gods know what it is to be eternal, and they love to toy with mortals who use absolutes.

Josephine Angelini

#41. Because he's no better than a spoiled child. You were his toy, and even though he's got new toys, it doesn't mean he wants anyone to play with his old toys.

Nicholas Sparks

#42. My interest in his new toy, the Theremin, isn't very big. It simply does not fit into my way of playing music. I do not want to fiddle around with my hands in the air.

Klaus Schulze

#43. If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuf, which would endure a shake. Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest; A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best.

George Herbert

#44. If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.

Aaron Neville

#45. Then he noticed her boys. They were standing side by side at the edge of the driveway, their plastic guns still in their hands and their faces pale and forlorn beneath the toy helmets, his own Tony, God bless him, with a comforting arm around each.

Alice McDermott

#46. When we grow up," she said, "we'll have amazing families. Our dens will be better than this. Your kids and my kids will play together in a humongous room with every kind of toy and game." "Except I won't have kids," Dan said. "I'll come over myself and play ...

Peter Lerangis

#47. Let me tell you something: You can live in a broken home, you can play with a broken toy, but you cannot love with a broken heart.

Bella Pollen

#48. My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.

Vincent Gallo

#49. The powers know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow, and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy ... An army and navy represents the people's toys.

Emma Goldman

#50. I came from product design originally - I had been designing dolls for a toy company since I was 16 - so I'm used to working with plastic and different things. I had an innate interest in objects.

Jason Wu

#51. I had always been a really peculiar child. My mom would tell you I grew up roughing it with the boys and playing with action figures and toy cars and stuff, but I also had an Easy Bake Oven ... I find it amazing that in a really weird way, people are mad that they can't figure out my gender.

Shamir

#52. What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

Gene Fowler

#53. 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. Sleep with your head at the foot of the bed? Fine. Samuel Johnson said, "All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

Gretchen Rubin

#54. Having heard Clifford Brown play all those fast runs, I used to really practice Clarke trumpet exercises all day long so that I could play fast. That's all I wanted to do. I was like a child with a toy.

Wynton Marsalis

#55. My mother's rules had to do with feminine deportment, so I never played hard enough to break a toy or muddy my dress. My father's rules had to do with never shaming the family by even a hint of scandal, and not providing business rivals with an opportunity to kidnap me or throw acid in my face.

Bharati Mukherjee

#56. If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised when the watch stops working.

Leo Tolstoy

#57. While it was well within their powers to toy around with mortals like hapless puppets, deeper human workings remained elusive to them. The heart, the soul, the very foundation of man's nature - those were mysteries to the gods, for all their manipulations.

Hayden Thorne

#58. One of my earliest memories is of bashing the keyboard with my hands, my chubby little baby hands, and I remember the sound hitting my face. It became my toy.

Christian McKay

#59. There was a toy gyroscope, wound with string, ready to whirr and balance itself.

Kurt Vonnegut

#60. The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man ...

Theodore Roosevelt

#61. Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.

H.L. Mencken

#62. Matt is grinning at me like I'm the new Christmas toy he really wanted, but can't play with yet because he hasn't read the instructions.

Jillian Dodd

#63. From afar at the end of Tsar Peter Straat, issued in the frosty air the tinkle of bells of the horse tramcars, appearing and disappearing in the opening between the buildings, like little toy carriages harnessed with toy horses and played with by people that appeared no bigger than children.

Joseph Conrad

#64. The brooch was a cheap bauble, but one with powerful sentimental value. Not that Irene was the sentimental type, aside from the smother-love she lavished on her toy poodle, but she'd known Colette her whole life. They'd grown up in the same grimy apartment house in Bay Ridge and had at one time

Pamela Burford

#65. Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.

Richard Le Gallienne

#66. I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

Lance Bass

#67. Man must be happy, as happy as a poor child cheerfully playing with his poor toy!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#68. Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative.

Ray Bradbury

#69. I was told by my mother at the age of five that I was going to be a doctor, and that was the end of the conversation. I was presented with a toy stethoscope and told to learn how to use it.

Chris Adrian

#70. My sons and I thoroughly enjoy Legos. We go to the toy store every week for more. I never want to take what we build apart; I want to put it on a shelf. My wife is starting to get a little annoyed with the Legos lying around.

Mark Wahlberg

#71. Fate might hate me, but that doesn't stop me from hoping one day she forgets about her favorite chew toy. When that day comes I hope karma has some fun with that bitch fate

Harper Sloan

#72. I wanted to play with death, like a child with a new toy, I wanted to push all the buttons and see what would happen.

Holly Hood

#73. I'm fairly comfortable in fight sequences and stuff like that. I've done a few of them. I'm comfortable with that sort of stuff as long as I'm reasonably fit, and it's fun to do actually. I'm like a kid in a toy shop doing that stuff.

Liam Neeson

#74. He's a child with a brand new toy, and I just hope he doesn't break me as soon as I'm out of the package.

J.M. Darhower

#75. Sometime in the early Seventies, gender-free toys were briefly a popular idea. So at Christmas on the California beach in 1972, we downplayed the dolls with frilly dresses and loaded up Santa's sack with toy trucks and earth movers for our three daughters.

Tom Brokaw

#76. You can't jump in the box, you lunatic.
"I'm so playing with the box."
[ ... ]
"Kids never want the toy, only the box

H.M. Ward

#77. A rat is more alive than a turtle.
A turtle is slow, cold, mechanical, nearly a toy, a shell with legs. Their deaths didn't count. But a white rat is quick and warm in its envelope of skin

Leonard Cohen

#78. With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with.

Neal Shusterman

#79. I'm scared," Nico mumbled. He was fiddling with something - a little metal toy soldier of some kind.
"Stop talking!" Dr. Thorn said. "Face me!

Rick Riordan

#80. It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with.

Steve Carell

#81. [T]he cascade of discoveries in neuroscience and genetics has created an image of individuals as automata, slaves to their genes or neurotransmitters, with no more free will than a child's windup toy.

Jeffrey M. Schwartz

#82. Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.

Jodie Foster

#83. I'm as excited as a kid with a new toy to be able to create a unique, exciting, urban superhero for a magazine that I respect as much as VIBE.

Stan Lee

#84. Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Winston S. Churchill

#85. My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.

William Maxwell

#86. A model is such a fascinating toy that you fall in love with your creation.

Freeman Dyson

#87. The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.

William Gilmore Simms

#88. We begin with the stars, then ascend up and away out to the galaxy, the universe, and beyond. What did Buzz Lightyear say in Toy Story? "To Infinity and Beyond!" It's a big universe. I

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#89. I'm like a Happy Meal without the toy."
Liam gave him an incredulous look. "Are you kidding? You're like a Happy Meal with two toys.

K.A. Merikan

#90. I've done tangos with men who thought my ass was a squeaky toy.

Seanan McGuire

#91. 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

#92. When that I was and a little tiny boy,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day.

William Shakespeare

#93. Something about her is so tempting to look at. Her anger has a childish aura as if she isn't made of real evil; just a bratty princess playing with her toy fangs.

Cameron Jace

#94. Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky.

Annie Dillard

#95. Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a 'toy' you're definitely onto something.

Aaron Levie

#96. Kelly O. realized she had a problem with her Ouija board when an aggressive entity turned the planchette into a sex toy and sent it slithering up her thigh.

Rosemary Ellen Guiley

#97. As I look through my box of photos, my eyes well up with tears as I hold in front of me, the one of my brother Spence when he was five years old. He looks so cute in his cowboy outfit, drawing his toy pistols as if he were having a showdown with nasty outlaws.

Terra Lorin

#98. Anytime I am spending time with my son. We went to a theme party recently and it was Toy Story. He was Buzz Lightyear, I was Woody and his mom dressed like Woody's wife.

Daniel Jacobs

#99. 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

#100. The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.

George William Curtis