#toy

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#despair #leo-tolstoy #love #sadness #beauty

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#alarm #arm #between #boldly #brilliance

Our own attitude is that we are charged with discovering the best way of doing everything. ↗

— Mark Graban

#lean #toyota #workplace #attitude

Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#bikes #fast #fun #going #having

I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#drive #frugal #hair #i #iq

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#feels #oneself #shadow #tolstoy #whether

When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules? ↗

— Steven Wright

#asked #guy #i #kid #schedules

I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys. ↗

— Martin Yan

#drawer #especially #fact #full #i

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#confused #decided #double #even #everybody

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

#figure #first #first thing #give #hacker