Quotes of Toe - somelinesforyou

“ 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 F. Kettering

“ Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag. ”

- Julia Roberts

“ Well, if the earthquake happens, I've got my steel-toed shoes and some rope, and we'll get down a mountain. ”

- Stevie Nicks

“ Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas. ”

- Davy Crockett

“ I am the American heartbreak — The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe. ”

- Charles Evans Hughes

“ The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking. ”

- Isadora Duncan

“ One reason we should love our enemies is that we made them ourselves. Another reason is that they keep us on our toes, a third reason is that we should make them our friends. ”

- Unknown

“ My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes. ”

- Mal Pancoast

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

- Lao tzu

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

- Oscar Wilde

“ At the precise moment you take off your shoe in a shoestore, your big toe will pop out of your sock to see what is going on. ”

- Ginsburg

“ Actually, I wanted to be a toe dancer. My mother did an act in London. She had two girls who did a little ballet number while she changed gowns between the songs she was performing. And when the ballet slippers wore out, she brought them home to me. I put them on and could walk all over the house on my toes. ”

- Gale Gordon

“ Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness… ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ 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

“ I'm still about as pigeon-toed as you can get. But I learned to manage pretty well on a bike. Should have had a bicycle then, when I was a kid, but our family didn't have the money for such luxuries. I saved up to buy one myself a few years later. ”

- Norman Rockwell

“ 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 Keaton

“ I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference… ”

- Andy Gibb

“ Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; they're enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes. ”

- Truman Capote

“ Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon — the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it. ”

- Lord Byron

“ What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse… ”

- Virginia Woolf
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