Quotation Explorer - 'Toy'

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
as a child i used to complain to my father about not having toys and he would say (calvero points at his own head) this is the greatest toy ever created. Here lies the secret of all happiness. - Anonymous
I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Birds of the air will tell of murders past. I am asham'd to hear such fooleries! - Christopher Marlowe
Every kid's afraid of that right? That someday you'll be left in a corner, like a toy, staring with button eyes and a broken heart. - Lili St. Crow
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
She has this strange habit of playing with toy,A toy named "Heart....... - Naim Ibn Iqbal Khan نعيم خا
Man must be happy, as happy as a poor child cheerfully playing with his poor toy! - Mehmet Murat ildan
If little else, the brain is an educational toy. - Tom Robbins
IMMORTALITY, n. A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for. G.J. - Ambrose Bierce
PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises. - Ambrose Bierce
You're only as old as your boy toy... - Vanessa Kincaid
The beach is a natural park, without the greenery but the sand is a natural toy. - Anuradha Bhattacharyya
You know you may feel very sad like a child whose toy is broken; but then you know sun rises, life continues and you start laughing again! - Mehmet Murat ildan
How am I going to explain to my kids one day that I can't buy them a happy meal because the toy will make them fat? - Carroll Bryant
I used to have this toy, a magic slate. You wrote or drew on it and then, just by pulling up the plastic cover, everything you did disappeared and you could start new. Maybe everyone feels that on New Year's Eve: They can pull up the magic sheet and rewrite their lives. - V.C. Andrews
I was captured by music at a really early age. I was really captured by it. Everything about it. It was my mother… It was my father… It was my play thing. It was my toy. It was the best thing in my life. - Jeff Buckley
A WOMAN WITHOUT A BRAIN IS LIKE A GUN WITHOUT A BULLET...JUST A TOY. - KAMILAH WILLACY
The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. - Sam Levenson
He tells me to hold back the tears and winds me up like a toy, telling me that men don’t cry. He tells me no more because he’s gone and off with his own kids. I see him in the distance, proud and enlivened. He taught me how to cry and how to be strong at the same time. For others. - Joe Cao
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