Dolls Quotes - Page 4

• All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Sawdust, Trash

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.172, Modern Library

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• A lot of people are afraid of dolls - everybody remembers Chucky.

  John Searles

  People, Remember

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• If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.

  Brent Weeks

  Girl, Secret, Quiet

  Brent Weeks (2009). “The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• How long do small girls play with their dolls? As long as they are not married and do not live with their husbands. After marriage they put the dolls away in a box. What further need is there of worshipping the image after the vision of God?

  Ramakrishna

  Girl, Husband, Play

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Children, Yawning, Important

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• The devil comes and soon my subconscious and conscious might start to brawl. As this cunning demon takes me as its voodoo doll.

  Fergie

  Devil, Might, Demon

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• It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls or toys and make up stories. I never grew out of it.

  Morgan Freeman

  Kids, Play, Acting

  "Mo People: Morgan Freeman. Morgan Magic". Interview with Alex Gorton, www.mandarinoriental.com.

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• Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Blessed, Men

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• Now a doll found naked in a ditch
  eyes rusted open, is blasphemy.

  Deborah Digges

  Eye, Naked, Found

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• For those 10 months back in Afghanistan after university, I felt I had no rights. It felt like I didn't exist. It was like I was their doll, and I was lost, somehow. My sister's husband brought me to an art gallery. It had a big effect on me.

  Malina Suliman

  Art, Husband, Rights

  "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

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• I didn't have a Barbie doll, so I played with eternity.

  Vanna Bonta

  Barbie Dolls, Amusement, Eternity

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Voodoo doll belong in the house of voodoo.

  Marie Laveau

  House, Voodoo

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• I was playing with pencils while the other girls were playing with dolls.

  Sasha Pivovarova

  Girl, Other Girl, Pencils

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• I love God, and when you get to know Him, you find He's a Livin' Doll.

  Jane Russell

  Religious, Religion, God Love

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• Come back when you grow up girl, you're still living in a paper doll world.

  Bobby Vee

  Girl, Growing Up, World

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• At six
  I lived in a graveyard full of dolls,
  avoiding myself,
  my body, the suspect
  in its grotesque house.

  Anne Sexton

  House, Childhood, Body

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• It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly.

  John Fowles

  Silly, Self, Proud

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.

  Sarah Waters

  Heart, Movement, Legs

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• You said your cousin was a necromancer. You know how the natural necromancers operate?" They twisted the head off your favorite doll, stuffed a dead bird into it, and made it walk around. And then they were puzzled why you got upset.

  Ilona Andrews

  Cousin, Bird, Upset

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.82, NYLA

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• I got a voodoo doll every time I pen a verse:
  Not only do they say they feel it, but they say it hurts.

  Pusha T

  Hurt, Rap, Hip Hop

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• Does the sailor then live in exultation of having conquered the waves, or is he humbled by the magnanimity of the ocean? Does the climber believe that he conquered the mountain, or does he dissolve inwardly and face again and again all the times when the mountain was kind to him who was not even a little rag doll in the clutches of a giant? The craving is to merge, to become One with the mountain, the sea, the forest and the universe.

  Zeina

  Believe, Ocean, Sea

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• The little girl on the plane Who turned her doll's head around To look at me.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Looks, Littles

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• [On the Barbie doll:] Her values, while somewhat Yuppified, are not so bad. Look at GI Joe. His only wardrobe is fatigues, he spends all his time trying to kill people, or getting his own innards splashed across the landscape. His big hobby is death.

  Caryl Rivers

  Barbie Dolls, People, Trying

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• What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be that they sent? A box of chocolates with centers like the yolks of turkey eggs. A mud doll with hollow eye sockets. A heap of roses slightly more fragrant than rotten. A package wrapped in bloody newspaper that nobody would want to open.

  Alice Munro

  Eye, Turkeys, Eggs

  Alice Munro (1999). “The love of a good woman: stories”, Penguin, 1999

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• Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Thinking, Brain, Russian Dolls

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