Toes Quotes - Page 20

• All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying bodies and portions of bodies once warm living and tender parts of Irish men and youths - all these horrors in Flanders or the Gallipoli Peninsula, are all items in the price Ireland pays for being part of the British Empire.

  James Connolly

  Eye, Men, Hands

  James Connolly (1988). “Collected Works: Labour and Easter Week”

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• The first year was weird. I knew I was just there to talk to pitchers and not step on any toes. I could feel my adrenaline start to flow in about the sixth inning. I had to tell myself, "What the hell are you getting excited about? You're not going anywere, big boy. Just go sign some autographs." I was still programmed.

  Goose Gossage

  Boys, Yankees, Years

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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

  Sports, Shoes, Ends

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• There's a million new people in the studio every day creating new stuff so I really had to be on my toes with this one so I could get it out before somebody else could.

  Willa Ford

  Creating, People, New Day

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• I painted my toenails before Dennis Rodman. One time at training camp, I stubbed my toe and the nail came loose. My mom gave me some toenail hardener, and I painted over it. I scored 40-something points that night, so it became a ritual. Paint my toenails, score 40 points.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Mom, Night

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• 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

  Men, Differences, Fifty

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• We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Song, Moon, Hymns

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• If you walk backwards, you will never stub your toe.

  Harvey Mackay

  Walks, Backwards, Ifs

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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• When I first started [taking acting classes] I sort of stuck my toes in but I was so nervous I didn't know if I could go all the way. I was so scared about it for some reason. The more confident I got with it, the more I just fell in love with it. I love going to work every day and trying to make the most of the stuff I've been given.

  Josh Duhamel

  Class, Trying, Acting

  "Transformers - Josh Duhamel interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The weird job of acting is that it is so simple. You just see the person in the situation. It is whatever you have to do to get there. Some people want to stay up all night or cut their toe off. For me it is a bunch of reading, and hanging out with real people, I do that. You never know what you are going to get. It might be the shoes people wear.

  Jason Isaacs

  Jobs, Real, Reading

  Source: www.iamrogue.com

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• I love the challenge of show business. It keeps me on my toes.

  Henry Darrow

  Challenges, Shows, Show Business

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• My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a lot of toes.

  Peter Greenaway

  Hero, People, Would Be

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• When you're a kid, you live carefree. You notice things that go on around you, but you live like a kid with no worries until you get to that certain age where trials and tribulations come and you gotta fight and stay on your toes. That's when survival instincts kick in.

  Jay Rock

  Kids, Fighting, Worry

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The time has passed in America when this party can be the party of compassion and let the executive branch run foreign policy. It won't work. We have to be the party that can stand toe to toe with George W. Bush on national security, as well as the party of compassion.

  Wesley Clark

  Running, Party, Compassion

  Wesley Clark at Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at Johnson Theatre, University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. December 9, 2003.

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• Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am all about money. I mean, just look how well my line of zodiac-inspired toe rings and homeopathic children's medications are selling on Home Shopping Network.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Children, Home

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• I've dipped my toe into the beauty world and I'd like to keep it there!

  Matthew Williamson

  World

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Love Came....
  and became like blood in my body.
  It rushed through my veins and
  encircled my Heart.
  
  Everywhere I looked,
  I saw One Thing....
  Love's Name written
  on my limbs,
  on my left palm,
  on my forehead,
  on the back of my neck,
  on my right big toe...
  
  Oh, my friend,
  all that you see of me
  is just a shell,
  and the rest belongs to Love.

  Rumi

  Heart, Blood, Names

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• Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.

  Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria

  Water, Planning, Beats

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• I want to lie, shipwrecked and comatose, Drinking fresh mango juice. Goldfish shoals, nibbling at my toes. Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun. Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun.

  Howard Goodall

  Fun, Lying, Drinking

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• Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.

  John Milton

  Sports, Laughter, Light

  "L'Allegro" l. 33 (1645)

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• How can you know God if you don't know your big toe?

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Bigs, Knowing God

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• Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'

  Al Capone

  Fall, Cat, Marine

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• You can make change or it can make YOU. Change is to keep us on our toes. Change is to make us look more closely. What doesn't change are the arms you use to hug with. Those stay the same.

  Kyo Maclear

  Hug, Looks, Use

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• Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.

  Blythe Danner

  Real, Hard Work, Air

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• The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They had inbred and ingrown and finally emerged from the Kentucky hills like some remnant of Attila the Hung's barbarian horde. Flick said that they had webbed feet and only three toes. It might have been true.

  Jean Shepherd

  Family, Kentucky, Feet

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