1.
The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.
Octavio Paz
The Mexican has an intimate relationship with mortality. He banters with it, cherishes it, slumbers alongside it, and commemorates it. It is one of his favorite playthings and his most reliable devotion.
2.
The life we live is just a colourful and deposit toy.
Some of us take it so seriously and fight and cry for it.
Some of us break and throw it.
Either we give extreme importance, either not enough.
Better to stay far from extremes.
Shams Tabrizi
3.
What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy.
River Phoenix
4.
The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy.
Tim Berners-Lee
5.
I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.
Adam Savage
6.
I want to have a little toy version of Morgana. I can then show it to my grandchildren one day. So I can say I used to have a waist.
Katie McGrath
7.
I'm more into the Spawn toys. They're really cool. They're coming out with a Techno Spawn series and another series, The Dark Ages, which are really cool.
Jason Mewes
8.
A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.
D. A. Carson
9.
See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.
Jamie Zawinski
11.
They [zebras] looked like highly varnished animated toys.
Elspeth Huxley
12.
Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death.
Desmond Morris
13.
Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
John Lasseter
14.
I collect stuffed animals, and toy stores make me happy.
Grace Slick
15.
One time my mom tried to send me to my room for a time-out when I was 5 or 6, and I was like, "Fine! I like my room! All my imagination and toys are in my room!" I will never forget that. And she will never forget that.
Elizabeth Olsen
16.
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
Gene Fowler
17.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Henry David Thoreau
18.
Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of play culture imposed by adults.
David Elkind
19.
Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.
Freeman Dyson
20.
Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining.
Cher
21.
I was one of those kids who took apart their toys to see how they work, just to see what they were made up of.
Chad Hurley
22.
I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.
Placido Domingo
23.
Man must be happy, as happy as a poor child cheerfully playing with his poor toy!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
24.
As men get older, the toys get more expensive.
Marvin Davis
25.
As far as we are concerned, we are not the toys of any country, including the United States.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
26.
Toys are intriguing, and I want to see what I can do with them. On a deeper level, they represent one way that society socializes its young
David Levinthal
27.
Disruption on the first day always looks like a toy.
Steve Blank
28.
The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
Adam Savage
29.
90% of toys are made in china, which technically makes the chinese elves
Sean Lock
30.
Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
31.
If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.
Tris Speaker
32.
If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty.
Jamie Zawinski
34.
I got into skateboarding when I was like a shorty. It was a toy thing.
Lupe Fiasco
35.
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
James Broughton
36.
To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys.
Michael Keaton
37.
I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.
Joanna Lumley
38.
When I was starting as an anime director I wanted to be known for great things. I never wanted to be known for some overblown toy commercial.
Yoshiyuki Tomino
39.
PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.
Ambrose Bierce
41.
What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page thats really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm.
Henry Selick
42.
If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.
Peter Kreeft
44.
How then shall they have the play-games you allow them, if none must be bought for them?" I answer, they should make them themselves, or at least endeavour it, and set themselves about it. ...And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them.
John Locke
45.
It takes faith to find personal significance in your relationship with God rather than how much money you earn, how beautiful you look, how many toys you own, how many trophies you collect, or how much territory you conquer and control.
Charles R. Swindoll
46.
If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.
Jamie Zawinski
47.
My philosophy is "Where is it written that at 40 you give up all your toys?" If I'm still having a great time doing something, I'm going to keep on doing it.
Guy Fieri
50.
To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.
Allen Klein