quotes about Toes
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Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent.
-- Al Gore -
It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental.
-- Ali Smith -
And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The rest of the fraternity is deadwood. Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.
-- Ben Hecht -
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I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.
-- Bill Parcells -
I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
-- Billy Sunday -
They're pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.
-- Black Francis -
I gotta do some sad scenes. Why, I never tried to make anybody cry in my life! And I go `round all the time dolled up in kippie clothes-wear everything but a corset...can`t stub my toe in this picture nor anything! Just imagine having to play-act all the time without ever getting hit with anything!
-- Buster KeatonSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.
-- Carmen Electra -
I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice.
-- Cesar Romero -
I like working with different directors; it keeps you on your toes.
-- Chaske SpencerSource : "Chaske Spencer, Alex Meraz and Julia Jones Press Conference THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE". Press Conference, collider.com. June 22, 2010.
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I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.
-- Constance Baker Motley -
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I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history.
-- CoolioSource : "No, Coolio Did Not Sign a Deal With Pornhub" by Jason Newman, www.rollingstone.com. July 24, 2014.
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What I was doing was servicing the needs of my constituents and I was not allowed to do that because I did not toe the line on U.S. policy for Israel.
-- Cynthia McKinneySource : "Cynthia McKinney Blasts U.S. on Libya TV, and Pro-Israel Groups in Iran". www.theatlantic.com. May 23, 2011.
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The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.
-- David McCord -
To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.
-- Dennis CovingtonSource : Dennis Covington (2009). “Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia”, p.226, Da Capo Press
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It's a fact the whole world knows, That Pobbles are happier without their toes.
-- Edward LearSource : Edward Lear, Edward Mendelson, Laura Huliska-Beith (2001). “Edward Lear”, p.31, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
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Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know.
-- Edwin MuirSource : Edwin Muir (1934). “Variations on a time theme”
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Well there's a line that you must toe and it'll soon be time to go but it's darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows
-- Elvis Costello -
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
-- Emile Zola -
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
-- Erica Jong -
Stay on your toes and always move forward.
-- Evander HolyfieldSource : Twitter post from Apr 25, 2016
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Be on your toes tonight - or I'll be on yours tomorrow.
-- Fred Waring -
What do you like to do?†She scuffed a toe amongst the rushes. “Needlework.†“Very restful, isn’t it?†“Well,†said Arya, “not the way I do it.
-- George R. R. Martin -
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A good poet feels what his community feels. Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts.
-- Gil Scott-HeronSource : "Gil Scott-Heron: More Than a Revolution" by Andrew Nosnitsky, pitchfork.com. January 18, 2012.
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I love the challenge of show business. It keeps me on my toes.
-- Henry Darrow -
I get my fingers in all our pies. Before you know it, your little fingers including all your toes are in all the pies.
-- Imelda Marcos -
Each of us face a moment in our lives called 'the breakdown moment.' This is the time when you must stand toe to toe, eyeball to eyeball, with the very thing you have tried desperately to avoid. In that moment, when there is nothing standing between you and the thing you fear the most, you will be forced to step into your greatness, because that is what life is demanding of you.
-- Iyanla VanzantSource : FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Feb 08, 2014
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I think that nonexistent mythological creature just broke some of your toes," Jack said. Oh, shut up," said Charles
-- James A. Owen -
When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.
-- James Franco -
Playing a stadium is a big adrenaline boost for me and I dig it. It keeps me on my toes and makes me revamp everything I'm doing and not get stagnant with how I approach every show, which is something I like.
-- Jason Aldean -
Upon your feet you have ten toes, they look just like PO-TA-TOES!
-- Jeff SmithSource : "Bone". Comic book by Jeff Smith, 1991-2004.
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Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new.
-- Jeffrey Wright -
When it's going well, stand-up is the best thing in the world, but when it's not, it feels like all your toes are being pulled off one by one.
-- Jennifer CoolidgeSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I don't like it when you look too styled and wear one designer from head to toe.
-- Jessica SzohrSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and lets you sit quietly beside it when you don't feel like speaking.
-- Joan Walsh AnglundSource : Joan Walsh Anglund (1958). “A Friend is Someone who Likes You”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Watch where you leave your victims! I stubbed my toe on that.
-- Jonathan StroudSource : Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion
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Supernatural was great because my character changed so much from beginning to end, always keeping me on my toes.
-- Julie McNiven -
A person like me... isn't even worth the tip of a toe. I can't even compare to half.
-- Jung Yoon-sung -
Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.
-- Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria -
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In pageants, you are evaluated from head to toe and its obviously all about looks, and as vain as that is, they can also bring you lots of opportunities to do amazing things.
-- Katherine Webb -
He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.
-- Kyra Sedgwick -
I'm going to join them", he said. And he did. When Sveva fled, Rath stayed and fought with the rebels. And died with them, right there at the toes of the mountains. And was dragged with them into a big pile. And burned
-- Laini Taylor -
I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
-- Langston Hughes -
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Like a midget at a urinal I was going to have to stay on my toes.
-- Leslie NielsenSource : "Fictional character: Frank Drebin". "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult", www.imdb.com. 1994.
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Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing-- turn your toes out when you walk--- And remember who you are!
-- Lewis Carroll -
Bend over to the front touch toes Back dat ***** up and down and get low (get low)
-- Lil Jon -
You're surrounded by it wherever you go, you walk through it, breathe it...it's in your lungs and under your tongue and between your fingers and toes.
-- Lisa Kleypas -
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You must be on your toes constantly, yet be relaxed.
-- Masaaki Hatsumi -
As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes.
-- Mem Fox -
We gotta see-saw until we unthaw those Popsicle toes.
-- Michael FranksSource : Song: Popsicle Toes
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A woman puts on a new dress eyeliner lip gloss to please others. A woman paints her toes to please herself. And if there was one thing I was familiar with it was pleasing...There's no way to finish that sentence without embarrassing myself.
-- Molly HarperSource : Molly Harper (2009). “Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs”, p.92, Simon and Schuster
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You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized.
-- Monique ColemanSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I have the ugliest feet in the world. But even if I didn't dance, they would still be ugly. My toes are too big!
-- Neve Campbell -
I never hang my feet off the end of the bed -I'm afraid little gremlins will bite my toes! Really!
-- Nick Carter -
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That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes.
-- Nomar Garciaparra -
It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.
-- Norma ShearerSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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We are not free to walk on our neighbor's toes.
-- Pablo Casals -
I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.
-- Philip Roth -
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I don't like guys who are conventional. I'm an achiever; he has to be an achiever. I admire drive, I admire ambition. I like a guy who keeps my on my toes.
-- Priyanka Chopra -
Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes.
-- Rich Hall -
Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.
-- Richard Hamming -
I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.
-- Richard Linklater -
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You won't step on other's toes if you imagine yourself in their shoes.
-- Rick Warren -
Nothing's impossible for Rickey. You don't have enough fingers and toes to count out Rickey.
-- Rickey HendersonSource : "Rickey Henderson – Razzball Interview". Interview with Rudy Gamble, razzball.com. December 26, 2008.
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I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.
-- Robert Duvall -
It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson -
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And I felt a sudden whirl in my head, knowing this leap was inevitable, that I wasn't just standing on the cliff, toes poking over, but already in mid-air.
-- Sarah Dessen -
If you're using live bass versus orchestral bass, you've got to make sure that you're not stepping on the toes of the other elements, so you've got to balance it out.
-- Serj TankianSource : "Catching up with Camp Rock 2's Jordan "JMan" Francis!". Interview with Teen Mag, www.seventeen.com. September 2, 2010.
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What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.
-- Seth MacFarlane -
When it comes down to it, I'm just a girl who wears those five-finger weird toe shoes.
-- Shailene Woodley -
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I could sit toe to toe at a potato table with anybody.
-- Stephen Colbert -
It felt almost rude to ignore toe pretty white bed, but we just weren’t going to make it that far.
-- Stephenie Meyer -
When you're in politics sometimes you step on toes and they come back and kick you in the backside.
-- Steve Bartlett -
My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out.
-- Steven Tyler -
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I tend to wear monochromatic outfits - all one colour from head to toe.
-- Suzy Amis -
Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.
-- Swami Vivekananda -
I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.
-- Sydney Pollack -
I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working on a show with Chita Rivera. It keeps you on your toes because it's different every time.
-- Terrence McNallySource : "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Terrence McNally". Interview with Harry Haun, www.playbill.com. March 26, 2011.
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Well, David Eckstein, like most of us, has 20 digits. Ten fingers. Ten toes.
-- Tim McCarver -
bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time.
-- Tom Waits -
I stare at him. I feel my heartbeat everywhere, even in my toes. I feel like doing something bold, but I could just as easily walk away. I am not sure which option is smarter, or better. I am not sure that I care.
-- Veronica Roth -
We cannot depend on change, but we can depend on surprise. However, we cannot always depend on surprise either. This keeps us on our toes.
-- Vivian Gornick -
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The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
-- Walter Savage Landor -
Each climber loses one finger or toe once in a while. This is a small but important reason for Polish climbers success. Western climbers haven't lost as many fingers or toes.
-- Wanda Rutkiewicz -
If I thought I could win one more soul to the Lord by walking on my head and playing the tambourine with my toes, I'd learn how!
-- William Booth -
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
-- Xunzi -
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Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.
-- Zac Efron -
I prefer not to wink out from behind the character as myself, saying to the audience, "It's just me here, right, guys?" Peter Sellers is my model, and he didn't do that - he wore his character from head to toe.
-- Andy DalySource : "'A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings'". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.
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Some people think their fingers are toes or claws, but they're actually finger bones.
-- Ann BurtonSource : Source: www.buzzfeed.com
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I think in the bridal world you definitely have to be on your toes at all times.
-- Austin ScarlettSource : Source: www.nbcnews.com
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I don't know if I'll ever direct, but producing is dipping my toe into my behind-the-scenes world.
-- Aya Cash -
Hawaiian to me is a feeling of getting somewhere, without stepping on anybodys toes, without causing friction with anybody.
-- Israel Kamakawiwo'ole -
May an elephant caress you with his toes
-- 'Little' Jimmy Dickens -
Shia [LaBeouf] was great. He's just high energy. He's into really playing, and I had to be on my toes in a way that I wasn't necessarily expecting.
-- Peter Jacobson -
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I used to be double-jointed in my hips, so I could put my toe in my mouth. That can't be classed as a talent really, rather a mild deformity.
-- Sara Cox -
I wanna be free. Free to scream, free to bathe, free to paint my toes all day.
-- Shanice -
You don't need a helmet facing Waqar [Younis] so much as a steel toe cap
-- Simon Hughes -
Hannibal is very much a secular story, even though we dance right up to the supernatural a few times in the show, and, arguably, you could say we dipped our toe in an instance or two.
-- Bryan Fuller -