“I had these cheap alien toys and I made up stories for them. They were space pirates. They didn’t have names so I made up names. These were the first stories I wrote. Even as a little kid I was thinking about torture.” ThinkingFirstsLittlesMadeStoriesKidsNamesSpaceAliensTortureToysLittle KidPirateMade Up Stories Author:George R. R. Martin
“You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day.” MadeNextToysShelvesNext DayBaghdadBombersWorld Is FlatRiyadh Author:Thomas Friedman
“I'd like a stocking made for a giant, And a meeting house full of toys, Then I'd go out in a happy hunt For the poor little girls and boys; Up the street and down the street, And across and over the town, I'd search and find them everyone, Before the sun went down.” LittlesMadeGirlHousePoorBoysSunStreetsTownsMeetingsChristmasGiantsToysHuntsBoy And GirlStockings Book:A Little Book of Tribune Verse: A Number of Hitherto Uncollected Poems, Grave and Gay Source: A Little Book of Tribune Verse: A Number of Hitherto Uncollected Poems, Grave and Gay
“I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There is certainly a great defect in my mind my wayward heart creates its own misery Why I am made thus I cannot tell; and, till I can form some idea of the whole of my existence, I must be content to weep and dance like a child long for a toy, and be tired of it as soon as I get it.” IfsMindHeartChildrenLongMadeI CanIdeasWholeFormSufferingExistenceSilenceStrangeWeaknessTiredMiseryResolutionToysDefectsCompoundsEndeavour Author:Mary Wollstonecraft