Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.
While other kids played with cars and toys, I listened to music all day. I wanted to sing it and learn it.
I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.
When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.
I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.
Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones.
They [zebras] looked like highly varnished animated toys.
To a real child anything will serve as a toy.
Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.
There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
Nobody gave me what I wanted for my birthday! Nobody! What sort of presents do you call these? New shoes, a green sweater and a bunch of stupid toys!" "What were you expecting?" "Real estate!
We had been thrown out of a couple of places that we had lived in when I was a kid and all the family photos and records and toys were long since gone. But I think somebody had given us a couple of records.
I'd been collecting different ethnic instruments here and there, and then I started making little bell type stuff, looking for weird little sound toys.
I'm putting all my money in the Chinese toy market.
God has given us a universe. It's really an expensive toy with no instructions. We're gonna break it sooner or later.
If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because we see clearly. A little later, intelligence introduces its impeding contrivances. It brings the little toys which man invents in order to hide the void. It is then that we think we are seeing clearly. We attribute our uneasiness to the miasmas of the brain as it passes from dream to reality.
We don't have to make toys that are coated with lead paint in China. We can make good toys in Alabama and North Carolina.
