Tom Noddy Quotes

I've never blown an ugly bubble. Never. They're all beautiful. They're like jewels, transient jewels.

The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else.

A mate owned a Bryan Robson top. We were kicking about, and I asked if I could be Robbo for a while. My dad looked out and went ballistic. He wasn’t having his kid dragging the Gerrard name through the gutter. I thought we’d have to move!

Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Since I was a little kid, I did like fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom had to make me a cape.

I'm not a real gadgety person. But bottle opener is probably the gadget I can't live without. Actually, I can open a bottle of beer pretty easily without it, but wine is always too much of a pain in the (rear) to open that up. So a corkscrew is probably the gadget that I can't live without.

LEGO is universal. So many people enjoy it, from all different walks of life, all different ages, all different cultures. When I was in Africa, I had LEGO bricks with me and I met some people who had never heard of LEGO, they had never seen it before and yet as soon as I gave them a few bricks, they immediately got it.

I managed to work for more than 50 years with just paper, pencils and film. My son's generation and the one coming up after can't work with just paper and pencils any more. I managed to avoid using a computer. I don't even have a cellphone. I feel lucky I managed to live like that.

Let's welcome the children into the world.

The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

In my life there are not that many questions I can't properly deal with using my $40 adding machine and dog-eared compound interest table.

It takes 3 girls to tow always; two to hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles.

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.

I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world.

No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.

I don't like gadgets for their own sake. I like gadgets that are tools. And I like simple gadgets that do one thing really well like a hammer.

Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools".

I actually pointed my wand and it blew up! The power! The power was just like Angry Birds, but big [as] life.

In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out.

Running is a grownup's lost link to playing outside.

The mind is constantly involved in thinking, in judging, in evaluating. Its whole function seems to be to keep you involved in thoughts, which are nothing but soap bubbles - or perhaps soap bubbles have more substance to them than your thoughts.

I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoint's and things of that sort. So, I'm an old fashioned still in this regard but these are the moment where I really can be creative, if I am, to be left alone with just a book and piece of paper and to be thinking.

His legs remembered the correct position for squatting down with toys. He played. He fit the round male studs into the round female grooves. He got some thinking done as he hunkered down on his fallen-sleep legs.