Toes Quotes - Page 23

• Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Writing, Secret, Use

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• I'm not cruel, sir, I won't shoot you in the guts, but I will make you realize how much you took your toes for granted.

  Terry Pratchett

  Realizing, Granted, Guts

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• Hey, think fast!' I just looked at Fave as he chucked the basketball at me with possibly the worst overhand throw I'd ever seen. It landed to my far right, then bounced past me, banging against my dad's truck. 'Do you have a vision problem of something?' I asked him. 'Just keeping you on your toes,' he replied

  Sarah Dessen

  Basketball, Dad, Past

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• I had been walking in silence for so long,I had almost forgotten what my own voice sounded like.My knees were tired;my toes were beginning to ache.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Tired, Voice, Long

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2006). “Hardboiled: & Hard Luck”, p.4, Grove Press

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• No, that nurse ain't some kinda monster chicken, buddy, what she is is a ball-cutter. I've seen a thousand of 'em, old and young, men and women. Seen 'em all over the country and in the homes- people who try to make you weak so they can get you to toe the line, to follow their rules, to live like they want you to. And the best way to do this, to get you to knuckle under, is to weaken you by gettin' you where it hurts the worst.

  Ken Kesey

  Country, Hurt, Home

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.31, Hamilton Books

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• When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood and marrow used to be, pushing every other feeling out as it fills you from your feet to your scalp. It leaves you with nothing.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Fear, Mean, Night

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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• 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

  Mountain, Rebel, Bigs

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• If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Years, Two, Trying

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• I do yoga. People think it is easy, just touching your toes. It is hard. But I tend to go with my own flow. It's back to the movement thing. I feel it when I need to train, and I do what I feel I need to do. And when I am in the run-up to a fight, I am really at it the whole time, might be getting my weight down to meet the limit for the division. Soon I am moving up and I am going to be champion in the next one too.

  Conor McGregor

  Running, Moving, Yoga

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Songs give you incredible opportunity to convey a tremendous amount in a relatively short period of time. The first thing that John Powell, our composer, says is, "Is the song engaging you to tap your toe?" If you're not tapping your toe, it doesn't matter what you're doing in the song, it's not going to work. But, if you can get the audience to be engaged by the song, then it gives you the opportunity to accomplish so much, in a very concise way.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Song, Opportunity, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Play, Shoes

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• 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 Coolidge

  World, Wells, Feels

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears. I love every inch and every part of your entire body. From your toes and the beautifully curved arches of your feet, to the exceptional shade and warmth of your dark hair. I need you in my life, I hope you need me too.

  Nick Cave

  Love You, Dark, Hair

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• Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the water, her wrists slide up her arms. The diver wraps herself in her reflection wholly, sealing it at the toes, and wears it as she climbs rising from the pool, and ever after.

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Reflection, Water

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• "Happy birthday," he sighed, and leaned down to touch his lips to mine. I reached up on my toes to make the kiss last longer when he pulled away. He smiled my favorite crooked smile, and then he disappeared into the darkness.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Kissing, Darkness, Lasts

  "New Moon". Book by Stephenie Meyer, September 6, 2006.

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• Just because I tread heavily on propriety's toes doesn't mean I can't play the game when it's of use to me.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Mean, Games, Play

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.351, Penguin

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• Oh, I'm being eaten By a boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor, And I don't like it--one bit. Well, what do you know? It's nibblin' my toe. Oh, gee, It's up to my knee. Oh my, It's up to my thigh. Oh, fiddle, It's up to my middle. Oh, heck, It's up to my neck. Oh, dread, It's upmmmmmmmmmmffffffffff . . .

  Shel Silverstein

  Necks, Knees, Middle

  Shel Silverstein, “Boa Constrictor”

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• Arya, What are you doing?" "Syrio says a water dancer can stand on one toe for hours." Her hands flailed at the air to steady herself. Ned had to smile. "Which toe?" he teased. "ANY toe," Arya said, exasperated with the question. She hopped from her right leg to her left, swaying dangerously before she regained her balance. "Must you do your standing here?" he asked. "It's a long hard fall down these steps." "Syrio says a water dancer NEVER falls.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fall, Air, Hands

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• Sometimes I’d get mad because things didn’t work out so well, I’d spoil a flapjack, or slip in the snowfield while getting water, or one time my shovel went sailing down into the gorge, and I’d be so mad I’d want to bite the mountaintops and would come in the shack and kick the cupboard and hurt my toe. But let the mind beware, though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hurt, Mad, Water

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “The Dharma Bums”, p.254, Penguin UK

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• People are going to die who don't die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy. So everybody better be on their toes. David and D.B. (David Benioff and D.B. Weiss co-creators of 'Game Of Thrones') are even bloodier than I am.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Games, People

  "EXCLUSIVE 'Game of Thrones' Author George R.R. Martin Warns: 'People are going to die who don’t die in the books'". George R. R. Martin's speech at the 67th Writers Guild West Awards, www.showbiz411.com. February 14, 2015.

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• 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 Vanzant

  Greatness, Faces, Steps

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Feb 08, 2014

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• 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

  Winning, Soul, Lord

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