Toes Quotes - Page 13

• Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.

  Bert Lance

  Good Day, Names, House

  1993 Of the Bert Lance Toe Test which he devised for his nine months in the Carter administration. In the Washington Post, 6 Oct.

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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

  Shadow, Lines, Complicated

  Song: Complicated Shadows, Album: All This Useless Beauty, 1996

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• I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Dying, Want, Poet

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• Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale gessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.

  John Milton

  Lying, Flower, Glowing

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 142

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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

  Punishment, Nails, Lost

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.91

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• Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would dearly like to use their fingers and toes for some activity more enthralling than counting. They have been counting for so long. But the peculiar problem of the new math is that every time we stop adding, somebody starts subtracting. At the very least (the advanced students will understand this) the rate of increase slows. ... The minority members of any group or profession have two answers: They can keep score or they can lose.

  Ellen Goodman

  Math, Two, Long

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• Tom Ford just started at Gucci and was getting great notoriety - like Madonna wearing that head-to-toe velvet suit at the MTV awards. I remember it like it was yesterday.

  Roopal Patel

  Yesterday, Awards, Mtv

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. Youre all constantly on your toes. And then with film and television, you can get a second take and things like that.

  Haylie Duff

  People, Film And Television, Able

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• I tend to wear monochromatic outfits - all one colour from head to toe.

  Suzy Amis

  Outfits, Colour, Monochromatic

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• If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you end up paying for that in the long run. You pay for it... with your homeland, or with your soul, or with your artistic vision.

  Diana Abu-Jaber

  Running, Party, Long

  "Diana Abu-Jaber: The Only Response to Silencing is to Keep Speaking". Interview with Andrea Shalal-Esa, www.aljadid.com. 2002.

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• 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

  Expectations, Surprise, Depends

  Vivian Gornick (1987). “Fierce Attachments: A Memoir”, Touchstone

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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

  Veins, Arms, Sand

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• If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

  George Bernard Shaw

  World, Statistics, Able

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• I don't always see humor in things. Especially when I smash my pinky toe into a coffee table leg in the middle of the night. But sometimes I'll see things, or experience things, that make me go, "Huh, maybe that's a bit."

  Brian Regan

  Coffee, Night, Legs

  Source: mauitime.com

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• I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song.

  Patrick Stump

  Song, Avant Garde, Lines

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Art, Moving, Sight

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• I could sit toe to toe at a potato table with anybody.

  Stephen Colbert

  Tables, Potatoes

  "Stephen Colbert Enters the No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2007.

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• I curse in everyday life, but usually when I stub my toe. The topics I'm discussing, it's not necessary to curse. I found [cursing] is a sign that a joke is not finished or well-written.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Everyday, Topics, Cursing

  "He's bringing home the bacon, from clubs to Super Bowl ads". "The Plain Dealer" Newspaper, February 9, 2007.

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• We are not free to walk on our neighbor's toes.

  Pablo Casals

  Freedom, Neighbor, Walks

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• I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I.

  Horace Walpole

  Rap, Axes, Doe

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• I'd love to do a Paul Greengrass movie, or something like that, that's a character-driven action film. I'd like someone to make me go to the gym every day, and all that stuff. I don't know. Wherever the good characters are, I tend to try to get a job. It was nice because this was dipping my toe in the action genre. Maybe I might put my foot in, next time.

  Carey Mulligan

  Jobs, Nice, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• I think most people don't really understand all that it takes to stand on your toes, and to be able to jump and land without any noise, or for a male dancer to be able to lift a girl. All of these things look so effortless, but there's an attention to detail and years of training, as well as being able to transform into a character and being able to meld all of those things together.

  Misty Copeland

  Girl, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• They're pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.

  Black Francis

  Giving, Credit, Halls

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• I like working with different directors; it keeps you on your toes.

  Chaske Spencer

  Directors, Different

  "Chaske Spencer, Alex Meraz and Julia Jones Press Conference THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE". Press Conference, collider.com. June 22, 2010.

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• What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Brain, Make Me Happy

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