The Magic Toyshop Quotes & Sayings

Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union brought them here. To lose that connection, that sense of identity, is to experience a wound that no child-support check or fancy school can ever heal. — David Blankenhorn

Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero? — Milan Kundera

I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think — David Malouf

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination. — Max Planck

I think that we pay much more attention to fashion and our hair, skin and foreheads, our abdominal muscles and shoes than what is happening in the world. We willingly take that 'drug' and go along with that. — Meryl Streep

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography. — Lauren Greenfield

I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape. — Kate Winslet

I'm not interested, Larry, in being a perfect, plastic pop singer that looks great in bikinis and is on the cover of every magazine. I'm more interested in helping my fans to love who they are, and helping them to reject prejudice and reject those things that they're taught from society to not like themselves, to feel like freaks, that they're not wanted. — Lady Gaga

One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions. — Mahmoud Darwish