Toes Quotes

• You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

  Charles Kettering

  Time, Science, Progress

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• Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

  Marianne Williamson

  Running, Sex, Women

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.90, Ballantine Books

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• And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Movie, Scary, Curls

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• Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Apples

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. FEbruary 16, 2005.

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• It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Young, Pleasant, Ten

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.628, e-artnow

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• When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock.
  So I stopped wearing socks.

  Albert Einstein

  Holes, Ends, Bigs

  Quoted in A. P. French, Einstein: A Centenary Volume (1979)

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• The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He was a hero come to rescue her. She was the only daughter of wealth and power. He was the seventh son of the lord of the seventh Care. She was beautiful from the auburn hair that crowned her head to the tips of her white toes. He was handsome and courageous. She was held prisoner by enchantment. He was a fearless breaker of enchantments. As in all the fables, they were made for each other.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Beautiful, Daughter, Princess

  Stephen R. Donaldson (2013). “The Mirror of Her Dreams”, p.6, Del Rey

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• It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.

  Goldie

  Laughter, Children, Color

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• It felt almost rude to ignore toe pretty white bed, but we just weren’t going to make it that far.

  Stephenie Meyer

  White, Rude, Bed

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• Think on your toes, use what’s around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

  Zac Efron

  Fun, Thinking, Use

  "5 Juicy Questions For…Zac Efron". Interview with Naomi Piercey, www.womenshealthmag.com. April 3, 2012.

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• I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Girl, Humor

  YouTube Channel "zappbrannigan"/"Emo Philips - 1983 (part 1 of 2)", www.youtube.com. October 15, 2007.

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• The secret of toe cleavage, a very important part of the sexuality of the shoe; you must only show the first two cracks.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Fashion, Shoes, Two

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• 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

  Distance, Climbing, Standing Alone

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• A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Corn, Sensitivity

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.355, Wordsworth Editions

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• My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.

  Ginger Rogers

  Motivational, Dance, Mother

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

  Ida B. Wells

  Cutting, Lynching, Ears

  "Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought". Book by everly Guy-Sheftall, p. 73, 1995.

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• He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.

  Laozi

  Ambition, Walks, Stride

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.37, Chinese University Press

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• Those who stand on their toes are not steady.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Steady

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• Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

  Wallace Stevens

  Boys, Echoes, People

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.575, Univ of California Press

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• Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Powerful, Halloween

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 14

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• 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

  Tvs, Cameras, Actors

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2008.

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• Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

  Howard Marion-Crawford

  Life, Night, Cheerful

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• A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable. You're on your toes trying to push it. Suddenly you realize you can open it up a bit more. You know you're at one with yourself and the environment. You're a little more alive than before you started.

  Sean Astin

  Running, Distance, Perfect

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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-Heron

  Hurt, Community, Body

  "Gil Scott-Heron: More Than a Revolution" by Andrew Nosnitsky, pitchfork.com. January 18, 2012.

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• ...Kaitlyn never wore open-toed shoes on account of how she hated her feet because she felt her second toes were too long, as if the second toe was a window into the soul or something.

  John Green

  Shoes, Feet, Long

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.43, Penguin

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