Toes Quotes - Page 4

• Well, David Eckstein, like most of us, has 20 digits. Ten fingers. Ten toes.

  Tim McCarver

  Sports, Dumb, Fingers

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• I scoured myself with lye soap from head to toe to get the evil funk of demon snot off me. I have flossed things the gods never meant to be flossed and used things that would be toxic to most living organisms. All to sanitize my body for your chewing pleasure.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Evil, Toxic, Would Be

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “No Mercy”, p.60, Macmillan

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• So, instead of panicking, I closed my eyes and spent the twenty minutes' drive with Edward. I imagined that I had stayed at the airport to meet Edward. I visualized how I would stand on my toes, the sooner to see his face. How quickly, how gracefully he would move through the crowds of people separating us. And then I would run to close those last few feet between us - reckless as always - and I would be in his marble arms, finally safe.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Running, Moving, Eye

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.290, Hachette UK

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• Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.

  Polly Toynbee

  Happiness, Water, Challenges

  "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.

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• I lifted onto my toes, put my hands aroung his neck, and pulled him down. When our lips met, that first jolt... It was everything I hadn't felt with Simon, everything I wanted to feel. His hands went around my waist, pulling me closer--

  Kelley Armstrong

  Hands, Firsts, Lips

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• I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fall, Claims, Wells

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is it that my tongue speaks words it cannot hear? Because for all its eloquence, the tongue itself is deaf, and flaps in soundlessness.

  Jane Roberts

  Eye, Feet, Tongue

  Jane Roberts (1984). “God of jane: a psychic manifesto”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. Try things. Say hi already. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Mess up again. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it. Hold your friends close. Gather your strength. Gain wisdom and beautiful stories. Be brave, and you'll have the time of your life.

  Taylor Swift

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to toes.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Book, Heart, Sleep

  Elizabeth Bishop (2008). “Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters”

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• I could never toe the party line. I'd wear out the carpet crossing the floor.

  Hazel McCallion

  Party, Memorable, Lines

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• She had sand in her mouth and between her toes, the briny wind raising goose bumps on her skin, and the sweetest, spellbound feeling spilling from her heart. She could, at that moment, have died for him.

  Lauren Kate

  Heart, Wind, Feelings

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.268, Delacorte Press

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• Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?" My locker door is not intimidated. "My grandfather was a vault at Fort Knox, and if you try to dent me with a kick you will only tear some ligament that will never mend.

  David Klass

  Mean, Doors, Grandfather

  David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.176, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• A sleepy smile pulled at my lips as I rolled onto my stomach, stretching my legs out and pointing my toes. The sheets slipped over my bare skin and ended up somewhere at the foot of my bed. There was either a perverted ghost in my bedroom or Cam was wide awake.

  J. Lynn

  Feet, Skins, Lips

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• I went up on my toes to kiss him, and he groaned. "Do you really think this is appropriate on school grounds?" "Nope." I wrapped my arms around his neck. "And I happen to know there isn't an appropriate thought running through your head right now." "Or any other time." Tod pulled me close and held me so tight my ribs almost hut, but I didn't want him to let go. Ever.

  Rachel Vincent

  Letting Go, Running, School

  Rachel Vincent (2014). “Soul Screamers: Volume 4”, p.75, Harlequin

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• Hope is that tiny light that the gods have given us so that we can find our way through our darkest hours. And while we might stub our toes and bruise our knees, if we keep moving forward, even when our progress is slow and painful, we will overcome and be made better by our journey. … No misery or bad situation is ever infinite or final until we make a conscious decision for it to be so.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Moving Forward, Journey, Light

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Inferno: Chronicles of Nick”, p.173, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Okay, that really shouldn't have happened. And we’re not going to talk about that, right? Ever?” “Right,” she said. She felt like there was light dripping from her fingertips. Spilling out of her toes. She felt full of light, in fact, warm buttery sunlight. “Never happened.” He opened his mouth, then closed it, and closed his eyes. “Claire—” “I know.” “Lock the door,” he said.

  Rachel Caine

  Eye, Light, Doors

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.283, Penguin

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• Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that!

  Ray Bradbury

  Dog, Book, Cat

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• Do you want to suck face or not?” “Suck face?” His head fell back and he laughed, his chest vibrating against me. It was a lusty, full-bodied sound and my toes curled at hearing it. Gideon laughed so rarely. My hands slid under his sweater and glided over that warm skin. My lips moved over his jaw. “Is that a no?” “Angel, I’ll suck on any part of your body I can get my mouth on.

  Sylvia Day

  Angel, Hands, Sweaters

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• You should climb around inside my brain, Dan. It's like this dark room surrounded by quicksand." "I know what you mean," her brother said quietly. "I hate being in my brain sometimes. I have to get out." "What do you do?" Amy asked. Dan shrugged "I go to other places. My toes. My shoulders. But mostly here." He tapped his chest and immediately reddened. "I know. It's stupid." "Not really," Amy said. "I wish I could do that, too.

  Peter Lerangis

  Brother, Stupid, Hate

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• Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.

  C. S. Lewis

  Essentials, Done, Fierce

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the depth, the form, the control, the twist of his wrist, the bend of his elbow, the tilt of his neck, notes digging into arteries, and he is in the air now, forcing the legs up beyond muscular memory, one last press of the thighs, an elongation of form, a loosening of human contour, he goes higher and is skyheld.

  Colum McCann

  Memories, Knowing, Air

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• It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body and out into the world in mirthful bursts. There wasn't anything fake about it; it was an amusement park of a laugh, and when it appeared, you wanted to jump on board.

  David Levithan

  Laughing, Fake, Soul

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• Yeah, well, I’ll be glad to birth it if it means I can name him something normal. (Zarek) Yeah, yeah. This from a man who whines like a two-year-old when he stubs his toe. I’d like to see you survive ten hours of childbirth. (Astrid)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Men, Years

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.271, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• I first became fascinated with the Sears catalogue because all the people in its pages were perfect. Nearly everybody I knew had something missing, a finger cut off, a toe split, an ear half-chewed away, an eye clouded with blindness from a glancing fence staple. And if they didn't have something missing, they were carrying scars from barbed wire, or knives, or fishhooks. But the people in the catalogue had no such hurts. They were not only whole, had all their arms and legs and eyes on their unscarred bodies, but they were also beautiful.

  Harry Crews

  Beautiful, Hurt, Eye

  Harry Crews (1995). “A Childhood: The Biography of a Place”, p.58, University of Georgia Press

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• Phoebe tapped the toe of her sneaker against the dock. “There’s only one good use for a man like Heath Champion.” “Here we go again,” Molly muttered. Phoebe’s lip curled. “Target practice.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Men, Practice, Sneakers

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