A Quote by Jeff Smith
The way I feel about it is: Beat me or feed me, but don't tease me. It's toy food; who needs it? Serve it to toy people.
Related Quotes
I will tell you that the ego in me would love to play the lead. I would have loved to have been Buzz Lightyear, or Woody in "Toy Story," "Toy Story 2" but they hire celebrities for that, well-known people.
Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and garnished with twigs and flowers so as to make it a toy garden or a toy forest. That was the first beauty I ever knew. What the real garden had failed to do, the toy garden did. It made me aware of nature-not, indeed, as a storehouse of forms and colors but as something cool, dewy, fresh, exuberant....As long as I live my imagination of Paradise will retain something of my brother's toy garden.
My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and dogs are the crazy ones.
Every kid has a toy that they believe is their best friend, that they believe communicates with them, and they imagine it being alive, their toy horse or car or whatever it is. Stop-motion is the only medium where we literally can make a toy come to life, an actual object.
There was a kid that used to pick on me... he used to drop my food and beat me up in little corners. Nothing serious, but tease me. I remember knocking his food out of his hand one time when he in the middle of explaining something to his friends, and they all laughed, so I thought that was pretty nice. 'Well, there you go buddy.'
People ask me about all sorts of sounds. There's a sound of a screeching toy or a rubber duck and everybody asks me about that, but it was an absolutely random thing, just a cool sound.
I used to joke that my next book would be about puppies that have lost a chew toy, and everywhere they went, people were nice and gave them things until they found the chew toy.
I've been in some situations where people have treated me like a fascinating toy. You know, it's just like an interesting kind of fun thing to have a play with. It's very weird for me. I feel like a tiny baby.
I was a kid in the third grade ... saw a dummy in the toy store. In the '60s and '70s there were a lot of those vinyl ventriloquism dummies - just about every toy store had one. Everyone close to my age that I've talked to, especially guys for some reason, tell me that they had one too, but they said they never could do it. So many people come up to me and say that. It was just something that I thought was cool. I started doing book reports with it - I developed the skill. I easily got A's on all my reports. It was just something that a little kid grasped on to - so I stuck with it.
When you unbox a My Little Pony or a Strawberry Shortcake doll, you were hit with a sweet, impossibly perfect fragrance of fresh, machine-made plastic oftentimes infused with floral and fruity notes to bring the toy to life. That third dimension of sensory experience made the toy so real to me.
The impact that movies, film, and TV have on me - the way that they can toy with my emotions - is beautiful, and I've always wanted to do that for other people.
I'm like a stuffed toy. You've never met me, but if you did, you'd just want to take me home and put me in your child's room.
You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.
To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.
When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.
As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys--and plenty of leisure and scope to play with them as he likes, and not just the way adults think proper. This is why he must be given this freedom for his play to be successful and truly serve him well.
Related Authors
Adrian Tomine Quotes
American
Cartoonist
Alison Bechdel Quotes
American
Cartoonist
Bill Watterson Quotes
American
Cartoonist
Bryan Lee O'Malley Quotes
Canadian
Cartoonist
Cathy Guisewite Quotes
American
Cartoonist
Charles M. Schulz Quotes
American
Cartoonist
Gary Larson Quotes
American
Cartoonist
Jack Kirby Quotes
American
Cartoonist
Lynda Barry Quotes
American
Cartoonist
Matt Groening Quotes
American
Cartoonist
Michael Leunig Quotes
Australian
Cartoonist
Randall Munroe Quotes
American
Cartoonist
Roz Chast Quotes
American
Cartoonist
Scott Adams Quotes
American
Cartoonist
Seth Quotes
Canadian
Cartoonist
Seth MacFarlane Quotes
American
Cartoonist