#toy

My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmetic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking? To be sure, I won't break through such a wall with my forehead if I really have not got strength to do it, but neither will I be reconciled with it simply because I have a stone wall here and have not got strength enough. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#notes-from-underground #nature

I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth of musical equipment in my house. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#biggest #dollars #equipment #fantastic #half

We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know? ↗

— Catherine Bell

#because #big #cars #computers #got

Immortality: 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. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#apply #contend #cry #die #dispute

My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#cover #demonstrating #good #good housekeeping #housekeeping

I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#artist #because #bells #bells and whistles #big

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#bigger #going #someone #than #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