Toes Quotes - Page 5

Life is a hailstorm of distractions. It's not the monster that stops us but the mosquito.

I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes.

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

The [Moon] surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.

A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats.

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

I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.

As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.

Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.

As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes.

The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.

I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce.

I started eating healthier. I actually gave up fast food. I gave up candy and potato chips and everything else. I started watching what I ate.

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.

I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato.

Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.

I prefer for a woman's most private of areas to have as much hair as Carlos Santana's entire band, head to toe, circa 1972.

I found out what the secret to life is - friends. Best friends.

I get my fingers in all our pies. Before you know it, your little fingers including all your toes are in all the pies.

Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance.

The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.

A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.

People who say that small things don't bother them have never slept in a room with a mosquito.