Quotes of Doll - somelinesforyou

“ London is a roost for every bird. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. "I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs." "I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking." "Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets! ”

- Bill Hicks

“ When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them. ”

- Jim Henson

“ And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna. ”

- Miranda Richardson

“ That strain in Asia has caused high mortality in those birds; the birds that tested positive in Quebec and Manitoba are all healthy. ”

- Jim Clark

“ Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats. ”

- Rebecca West

“ We think cag'd birds sing, when indeed they cry. ”

- John Webster

“ One of the puppets is a drawing on my thumb. That is Handsome Percy. ”

- Elizabeth Kenny

“ We can't profess love without talking through hand puppets. ”

- David Sedaris

“ When I was a kid I had this funny blond hair and everyone called me 'Chick' because I looked like Tweety Bird. ”

- Nicky Hilton

“ Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President. ”

- Ben Affleck

“ It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. ”

- Stanley Milgram

“ It may be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ The eagle suffers little birds to sing. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived. ”

- Bette Davis

“ Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation. ”

- Lord Robert Baden Powell

“ Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden-in all the places. ”

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

“ Did St. Francis really preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats. ”

- Rebecca West

“ I heard the little bird say so. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer. ”

- Bill Watterson

“ I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old. ”

- Billie Holiday

“ I live in a house full of women, dolls and conga drums! ”

- Andy Garcia

“ You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually. ”

- Cate Blanchett

“ We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do. ”

- Sharon Stone

“ Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size. ”

- Mark Twain

“ We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ When I was a kid in the 60s, believe it or not, most of you are younger and don't know that, but it was a blast to fly! You dressed up, you got in your Sunday best, women wore white gloves, you had room to stretch your legs out, you had a very nice meal, the stewardess paid particular attention to you… ”

- John Travolta

“ This is the kind of surveillance system that really allows us to first identify how far the disease is spreading and then to rapidly move in and cull birds that might have been exposed and to clean areas to reduce the possibility that humans can become infected even from the droppings of these birds. ”

- Richard Thompson

“ Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only question is, whether in serving our own turn, we can serve yours too; whether in double-lining our own nest, we can put a single living into yours. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ To be a girl is to be sweet, to be a sugar or a honey, to have dolls, to play house and be the mother. To be a girl is not to fight, but to wheedle and cajole, to manipulate behind the scenes and deviously control by being pretty and coquettish. ”

- John Money
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