The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

- Christopher Lasch

In 2009, novelty toymaker Maxfield & Oberton released Buckyballs, sets of curiously powerful magnetic marbles that became the most popular cubicle toy since the Rubik's Cube, selling more than 2 million units in 15 countries.

- David Sax

I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.

- Dennis Rodman

I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'

- Dan Scanlon

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

- Daniel Craig

Disruption is in my genes. My father owned one of the first discount toy stores, Duane's Toyland, in Albany and Schenectady, near where I grew up. Discount was always a huge disruptor - it disrupted Sears Roebuck.

- Craig Hatkoff

Toy companies aren't interested in ideology, they want to sell toys. If they would sell a toy that both boys and girls would buy, it doubles profits.

- Christina Hoff Sommers

They're just not into doing sequels after Toy Story so I don't think that's a possibility. But if they did, well sure, you'd have to do it. And I'd want to do it.

- Craig T. Nelson

I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.

- Craig McCracken

I've had a job since I was 11. I had a paper route, I worked at a video store, I was a toy doll at FAO Schwartz when I was in high school. And I think that it's made me really disciplined when it came to pursuing acting, because I had no clue how to go about it.

- Cara Buono

To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.

- Allen Klein

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don't have a toy, they'll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

- Clint Eastwood

You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.

- Carlos Slim

Dante didn't work out, and then we found Ryan. He worked at a comic, record and toy store in Fremont.

- Brody Armstrong

A toy is seen both as a bauble and as an intellectual machine.

- Brian Sutton-Smith

When I was a kid, my sisters and I used to get a little present in our stocking each day of December, usually an ornament, some sweets, or a little toy.

- Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.

- Brock Yates

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

- Bill Bryson

I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth of musical equipment in my house.

- Antonio Banderas

As a girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse; if I could still play with it now, I would!

- Aerin Lauder