Toes Quotes - Page 7

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

Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.

You don't hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.

Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.

Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.

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

And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana.

Those who stand on their toes are not steady.

Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.

There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him and he forgot it again at once.

Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.

If I had a hotdog in my hand, he would've had tomato ketchup on his face.

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.

Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips.

Watch out for love (unless it is true, and every part of you says yes including the toes), it will wrap you up like a mummy, and your scream won't be heard and none of your running will run.

Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

I don't want to have to put on that "thing" - I call it "the thing" when I have to do my hair, put on the lashes, get dressed up. When I go out for potato chips, I just want to go out looking like myself, which means you will see bad pictures of me. There probably are some out there right now, but it's just part of the life.

I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.

When it comes down to it, I'm just a girl who wears those five-finger weird toe shoes.

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.

That was the good thing about having different directors [on series]. You had to stay on your toes.

Nothing's impossible for Rickey. You don't have enough fingers and toes to count out Rickey.