Toying Quotes

#1. If I was brave, and I was, then that was what had to be done. Toying with any other options was cowardly shit, and I didn't do cowardly. Not any more. Decision made.

C.D. Reiss

#2. A dream is a slippery thing, plucking and bending and toying with our memories, sometimes acting as a bridge between the living, the loved, and the loved no-longer-living, but more often than not acting as a lesson not quite learned.

Scott Wilbanks

#3. Outrage alternated with a sweaty fear he had never before felt. Something, it seemed to him was being drained from him, leaving the body feeling like a very dry sponge, very light, completely at the mercy of sly toying gusts of wind.

Ayi Kwei Armah

#4. He should not be toying with her this way, drawing her into a dance round the funeral pyre, chancing that she would burn. -- Nicolas, le Diable.

Leigh Winterstine

#5. He glanced at Trey nervously and quickly averted his gaze to settle on Brian. "You guys rock. I absolutely idolize you. I wan't to be you."
"I want to do you," Trey said, toying with the hair at the nape of Mark's neck.

Olivia Cunning

#6. You're just gonna create somebody who is, I was gonna say, 'toying with his sexuality.' Pardon the pun.

Christine O'Donnell

#7. Does she think she can keep fucking with my head and weaving her devious webs thinking I'll always get caught in them? She's toying with my lust for her, my obsession, and I keep letting her.

Shantaye Brown

#8. I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently.

Neel Mukherjee

#9. I've just written a very gritty, non-magical take on the King Arthur legend, 'Here Lies Arthur,' and I'm currently toying with some other historical ideas, as well as working with the illustrator David Wyatt on some sequels to my Victorian space opera 'Larklight.'

Philip Reeve

#10. The idea I'd been toying with fully formed in my mind.
"I'm plotting."
"oh?" His mouth curved in a wicked grin. "Do Tell."
Chapter 5 pg. 50

Sylvia Day

#11. Why are you toying with me?" His breath was unstable. "You're driving me mad.

Nely Cab

#12. If a man starts a campaign on my behalf without consulting me, he's just toying with my existence. Think how much better off you'd be to have your existence ignored. At least your reputation wouldn't suffer!

Soseki Natsume

#13. That is the idea he is toying with, Renzo says, to write an essay about the things that don't happen, the lives not lived, the wars not fought, the shadow worlds that run parallel to the world we take to be the real world, the not-said and the not-done, the not-remembered.

Paul Auster

#14. As much as I love creating entertaining visuals, I love toying with the pace of a movie and trying to perfect that. It's imperative to the impact: faster cuts, cuts at the right moments that meld with the tenor of a scene. Creating and maintaining that feeling.

Asif Kapadia

#15. Of course. Opal is toying with our emotions for her own gratification. Nothing more. She wishes to place herself in a position of power, emotionally.

Eoin Colfer

#16. He was waiting for me at the best table in the room, toying with a glass of white wine and listening to the pianist who was playing a piece by Granados with velvet fingers.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#17. The upper echelon of adventure sport athletes are grappling with the fundamental properties of the universe: gravity, velocity and sanity. They're toying with them, cheating death, refusing to accept there might be limits to what they can accomplish.

Steven Kotler

#18. He knew what the thing was going to do next. It was going to climb the hood slowly, toying with them before crushing in the windshield and eating them all alive.

Melissa Eskue Ousley

#19. At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.

Rose Tremain

#20. I've always enjoyed drinking wine, ever since I was in college. My appreciation really took off when I began to visit Napa. I was toying with an idea of making wine in Napa, but it's prohibitively expensive, and the competition is fierce.

Kyle MacLachlan

#21. This was something he certainly had not done. I thought he might be toying, some cat-and-mouse routine, but now I think that his motives and desires weren't obvious even to him. They had not yet reached the level of words.

Margaret Atwood

#22. Levi was not so pious. Surely, it never occurred to Abraham that God was toying with him.

Tam Linsey

#23. Toying with this supervillain was kind of fun. Much better than my usual experience with them, which usually involved lots of blood and pain. I

Laura Thalassa

#24. An artist who painted a face was now 'playing with the idea of portraiture,' or 'exploring push-pull aesthetics,' or toying with contradictions like 'menacing-slash-playful,' but he or she was never, ever, just painting a face.

Steve Martin

#25. Something inside me clicks. It's like I've spent my whole life fiddling with a complicated combination only to discover I was toying with the wrong lock.

Jasmine Warga

#26. Sarasa, even if you feel that destiny is toying with you, destiny is something you design with your own hands.

Yumi Tamura

#27. For the time being you, too, are toying, out of despair, with your magazine articles and drawing-room discussions without believing in your own dialectics and smirking at them with your heart aching inside you

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#28. Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it's just because you're still a bit drunk. That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.

Jojo Moyes

#29. While you are playing Cinderella with your life, they will keep toying with your life.

Sunday Adelaja

#30. No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.

Bill Brandt

#31. You're toying with one of my people,"
she said coldly, watching impassively as he lifted her hand to his mouth.
"You never used to be cruel"
"I used to have a heart," he drawled "and then someone broke it.

Sylvia Day

#32. Now as he watched Katie toying with a ring that wasn't there, he felt his old investigative instincts kick in. There'd been a husband, he thought; her husband was the missing element. Either she was still married or she wasn't, but he had an undeniable hunch that Katie was still afraid of him.

Nicholas Sparks

#33. I was toying with the idea of ambivalence a lot. It's something I work on, not being so invested in outcomes and being more engaged in the process of my life.

Lissie

#34. Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.

Anita Diament

#35. Well?" he prompted, toying with the elastic of her leggings. "What should we do with these pants, Bailey?"
One teasing stroke of his fingers over her belly, and a breath shuddered out of her lungs.
"Take them off," she choked out.

Elle Kennedy

#36. You are so hot," I said.
"How hot?" she asked, toying with the hem of the shirt.
"Ionising radiation hot," I said. "Neutral pion decay hot."
Elena snorted. "You're such a romantic," she said.

David Walton

#37. Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own.

Plutarch

#38. At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web.

Robert Cailliau

#39. She had a date. She loved toying with them. Johnson's voice caused her to jump and fart at the same time. She was hoping her little scream of surprise drowned out the unladylike noise.

Debra Anastasia

#40. I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.

Adam Lambert