Top 133 Toes Quotes

When you play with great musicians, whether they’re schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes. It comes down to people’s personalities and individual energies.

If I can get an opportunity where no one will interfere and keep stepping on my toes, it’s just a matter of time.

Independent films are the ones with the great possibility of keeping you on your toes, challenging your craft and skills, and forcing you to learn something new.

There are plenty of politically motivated pretenders out there preparing to punk you, and you better be on your toes.

I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked.

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.

It’s a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn’t mean you can sit back and relax. You still have to be on your toes. A marriage needs constant attention.

Who does this, at age 71, try to put a tour together from scratch? I have to say it’s scary at times. But I like a challenge ’cause it keeps you on your toes.

It’s not so bad that I can’t touch my toes. But I’m not one of the most flexible guys. When you look at Novak Djokovic, you’d probably think he’s made of rubber.

I did ‘Pines,’ and everybody wanted me to be the bad boy. Then I did Tony in ‘Brooklyn,’ and everybody wanted me to be the sweet kid. So I just want to keep everybody on their toes. Basically, that was the thought process.

If you remember back to some of the television we saw, Buzz and Neil on the Moon with Apollo 11. Black and white. They were bouncing around a lot. They were really bouncing on their tip toes. Quite fun to do.

In Britain, British history is naturally a mainstream subject. Step outside your own narrow specialism, and you can find yourself treading on someone else’s toes. But in America, British history is an eccentric, minority pursuit, and while this can be intellectually isolating, it also permits extraordinary freedom.

I am thankful to my fans and producers that I am on my toes all the time to do better. The day you feel you have achieved it all or you are something, then you are gone, and that thought never came to me.

I don’t like guys who are conventional. I’m an achiever; he has to be an achiever. I admire drive, I admire ambition. I like a guy who keeps my on my toes.

I haven’t felt my toes on my foot on the right side for many years, and my fingers are numb all the time every day.

In one take, I had to do 24 combat sequences, which is hard. It makes you think, ‘I’d better get on my toes again.’

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it’s not you going through it.

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied: to want more and know that what is done is done. That was his way of seeing the game. You’ve done it, now move on. People might say, ‘Well, when can you enjoy it?’ But it worked for me because, in the game, you need to be on your toes.

I was a diabetic for 16 years, since I was 14. Being that I lost weight, no more diabetes. You don’t have to lose your eyesight, cut off your toes, have a stroke, get kidney failure. You just have to lose weight – you know – for most of the diabetes.

If it’s constructive criticism, please, go ahead. I’m all up for, ‘Hey, your toes were not pointed.’ Like, I can see that.

You want to be comfortable, but it’s also good to stay on your toes, especially in the midst of a long season.

I’m a bit of a loose cannon, but it keeps everyone on their toes!

For every Scottish player and whoever qualifies to play for Scotland, it’s important to put in the performances and, when a squad is coming up, to stay on your toes and prove you deserve to be there.

Everything on my body turned real dark. My toes, under my feet, inside my mouth, under my tongue – I just turned really dark. I’m still here, but it’s gonna take a while to get back to normal. Chemo kills all the good cells along with the bad.

I never dreamed we would be on television at all, much less for such a long time and with so much praise for keeping a thought provoking show on the air. And best of all, we were able to do what we do and still have all our fingers and toes.

No live performance can ever be perfect, and that’s what keeps you on your toes – it pushes you to practice harder, show up for that 8 A.M. ballet class, and walk through the stage door every night just to have the chance to do it all again.

I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They’re dancer feet. They’re pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they’re strong – I can pinch people with my toes.

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

The packaging has to really sell the product today, because kids can go out and buy a CD and then 10 kids can burn them. So you have to really be on your toes.

Think on your toes, use what’s around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

A top-class striker normally plays up on his toes, so he can sprint or go for every ball that falls in his direction.

What I think is important for us as players is to always stay on our toes and be critical to everything being said.

I’m constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music.

I’ve been dipping my toes back into TV.

I have crooked toes from wearing boots that didn’t fit me because that’s all I could afford as a kid.

Flight attendants need to think on their feet and walk on their toes. An emergency landing can’t be steered by a pot-bellied cabin crew that crawls or belly-walks.

I don’t like stepping on other people’s toes, but with my size 15 shoes, people step on mine sometimes.

If you’re using live bass versus orchestral bass, you’ve got to make sure that you’re not stepping on the toes of the other elements, so you’ve got to balance it out.

People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldn’t matter how fight my shoes were, I just liked that feeling of them being in there. That’s how I started tapping my toes.

From my hair to my toes to my nails. Everything’s fake. Everything! Even my heart is fake.

I’m definitely gonna do another solo record at some point. ‘Flamingo’ wasn’t just me dipping my toes in the water. I really loved it. It was successful, and that helps, but I love those songs, and I miss singing them.

I have never had feeling in my toes. My uncle, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, once told me in confidence he had the same syndrome, leading me to believe it is genetic.

I have a very good sense of my body and where it’s at. Although I don’t feel the ground in the same way that somebody else would, I’m very aware… I can feel pressure, and I know exactly where my toes are and exactly where my heel is.

There’s a million new people in the studio every day creating new stuff so I really had to be on my toes with this one so I could get it out before somebody else could.

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

Competition keeps you on your toes, encourages you to do better, so it’s actually a must for me.

My motivation is to be creative and have fun. You want to do something that keeps you on your toes the rest of your life and keeps you busy.

I love coverage. My ideal dress would be a turtleneck that goes all the way up to my chin, and then sleeves that go past my fingers. And then the dress goes all the way to the floor, and you see the very tips of my toes.

I don’t ever cross the line. I step right up to it. I put my toes on the line, but I don’t ever cross that line. There are some barriers you just don’t cross – you don’t talk about religion; you don’t talk about race. Those are lines I will never cross.

When I was with the national team, I couldn’t even touch my toes.

I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it’s better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait tables six days a week.

Even though I can’t dance, that’s, like, the one thing I wished I could do growing up. I used act like I was MJ, doing the moonwalk, tip toes, leg kick, all that.

I was missing the main weight-bearing bone in both legs. And the left leg, I didn’t have a full knee. It was a floating knee. I had six toes. My hands were webbed, and I also have one kidney. I don’t have a full bicep on my right side. Thank God my hair didn’t get ruined.

The crux is this: you can’t be sincerely empathic towards and angry at someone at the same moment. In other words, you can’t walk in someone else’s shoes and step on their toes at the same time.

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

Sometimes I am the ‘philosophical professor, or I can do the voice like thunder if necessary… or if I want to keep the lads on their toes I might sit back and give them a thousand-yard stare.

I’ve said many times that I might as well have webs between my toes.

I didn’t want to go completely on my toes for our first kiss.

I was one of those dancers who they say wants to feel the floor through their pointe shoes. I would end up not wearing toe pads and that stuff. I would just wrap minimal amounts of paper towels around my toes.

Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

The Roots want to dip our toes into everything in the arts.

I think writing in a group, even though it can be a challenge – you have to be on your toes all the time – is the way the best comedy gets written. It’s very, very collaborative. A lot of comedy writers are definitely introverted nerds.

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

I think bad breath is… just hard to get past. Someone with just horrible breath, yeah. I’m not talking about just onion breath. I’m talking about you been brushing your teeth and using the mouthwash and it still smells like you’ve been tongue-kissing the toes of a gorilla – that’s horrible.

How much better company is offered by the working wife who out of sheer necessity must keep on her toes mentally and physically.

I have been passionate about the oceans since I dipped my toes in the water at the first age of three.

Unlike singers, who can earn for years by singing one song, we artistes have to be on our toes all the time. If I write something funny or create a joke in the morning, there will be someone narrating my own joke to me the same evening.

I can’t really say I miss my toes.

Whether it’s at club level or with England, I have to stay on my toes and make that place my own.

Everybody has their iPhone cameras, BlackBerry cameras, and I see those cameras pointed up at me all the time now, which is actually really good because of what it does for me and my band. There is no time for us not to be on our toes because they’re on all the time whenever you’re playing. I think it’s very healthy.

Young blood keeps you alive. It’s keep you on your tippy toes.

When I am brushing my teeth, I’m bending my leg behind me, or I’m lifting my leg up and holding it in that position so I’m squeezing my butt in. I can do that while I’m washing or slicing vegetables, too. Or I go up and down on my toes, working my calves a little bit.

When you’re a kid, you live carefree. You notice things that go on around you, but you live like a kid with no worries until you get to that certain age where trials and tribulations come and you gotta fight and stay on your toes.

The idea that there is a difference between East and West is nonsense. You both hand over your card with two hands. If someone were to give me a million pounds, I couldn’t care if they handed it to me within their toes.

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.

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

I’m all about competition; still am to this day. That’s how you should be, but not with any malice. From Mike Will Made It to Boi-1da to Mike Zombie, I’m out to get ’em all and it’s that friendly competition that keeps us all on our toes.

Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors, and their toes are going to curl up.

You gotta watch everything. You gotta watch how you move, ’cause you a celebrity. You’re a target now, so you always gotta do that. Just stay on your tippy toes.

At the highest level, a discussion can be good sometimes to get everyone back on their toes.

Just because someone says something, whether it’s at the podium during the briefing or the president tweets, I can’t always assume that’s factual. That’s insane. We have to be very quick on our toes in fact checking.

You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

I run in a pair of New Balances with a thinner sole, but they’re nothing like those barefoot shoes that show all five toes. I have a bit of a phobia about those.

I’m a wrestler with nine toes. I’m a wrestler who has been through a lot of battles. I get to do a lot of motivational speaking, and people are blown away and say, ‘You never quit. You keep coming back.’

The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes… It’s not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.

In grownups, mercury can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. It can also adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation, and a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may lead to heart disease.

Fighting Manny Pacquiao is like playing a very fast game of chess. He was very fast and sharp. You have to be alert at all times and on your toes. There was a lot of incoming.

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one’s toes.

When the ball is up in the air for a rebound you always have to be on your toes to go up for the ball. It’s the same situation in football as a receiver; I’m always trying to get the ball at the highest point like a rebound.

I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I’ll never be in the Olympics.

Though we endow them with human features – heads, faces, heels, toes – golf clubs are profoundly inhuman tools.

Competition can never be eliminated from this industry. There is nothing wrong with it. It keeps you on your toes, making you work harder.

Some of my earliest memories are dancing in the kitchen, standing on my mom’s toes.

Hyams Beach is said to be the whitest in the world; walking on it is like wading through warm powdery snow – so clean it squeaks beneath your bare toes.

Really, I’ll go anywhere at any time to continue working in theater – it’s a passion that I’m thankful I still have. It keeps me creative and on my toes and meeting great people. I can’t imagine a better way of working than on a play.

I’m an artist, and I go in the studio and make my music. And then I’ll give it to my dad and he does what he does. And he does, you know, the press, and figuring out shows and whatnot. When it comes to my artistic freedom, he doesn’t, like, step on my toes or anything.

I would amputate my toes to work with Lars von Trier again.

For me, competition is good; that is what keeps me on my toes and keeps me going. I am always trying to better my own work, do better than my earlier films… do films that are challenging and exciting for me.

Writers who take on polarising issues are apt to step on a few toes.

My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out.

The very first thing I look at on a woman is her toes.

So many times I’ve wanted to crack up, standing there stiff while seven women are crawling round my toes fixing hems and the designer’s having a freak-out because the denim cuffs are crooked. I’m on the verge of hysteria.

I’ve never been able to touch my toes. Seriously, never.

I think competition is good. It finally delivers the best value to the customer, and I think it keeps all the players on their toes.

I feel like I have to be on my game because I have to handle my solo stuff and Pentatonix stuff, so it has really kept me on my toes in a good way.

WWE really likes to keep its fans on the edge of their seats and on their toes.

Government better be on its toes. I have been warning them for a long time that Pakistan is trying to infiltrate the borders. Their weapons are coming in.

The thing that’s really kept me on my toes is how my mom would always tell me – it’s not the best thing for a mother to tell you – but she’d never tell me after I’d lose a soccer game, ‘You’ll do better next time.’ She’d always say, ‘There’s always somebody better.’

Having enjoyed enormous powers, including the power of contempt, without any accountability, the higher judiciary has over the years, trampled the toes of many persons and institutions, particularly the media.

When I came into the league, I was very politically correct, because I didn’t want to step on anyone’s toes. Now, I’ve gotten to the point where I know you don’t have to be like that.

You can never make an assumption about the conversation you are about to have with somebody. People will always surprise you, which is what keeps you on your toes.

I don’t remember titles of books or authors from when I was young. I remember the title of only one book, which was ‘The Timber Toes.’ I remember it was a family of little wooden people who lived in the woods, and for some reason that stayed with me.

If I’m going to a party, I dance for as long as possible to burn the calories – the jive is great because you’re on your toes a lot so it works your calves, thighs and bum.

I’ve broken my wrist, dislocated toes and shoulders, gotten stitches, you name it. However, the worst was a severely bruised femur. I got body checked into an open gate while playing hockey. The doctor couldn’t believe I didn’t shatter my femur.

Whether you’re on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can’t settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.

I believe there’s a secret chemical that’s turned loose when you have kids that says you’ve got to survive, you’ve got to be strong. That keeps you on your toes, besides all kinds of other things, when you have three little ones running around.

I love Jesus Christ with all my heart and everything He stands for. I think that sums up everything that I want for my life, everything I want for my family, everything I want for my career. I want it to be entertaining. I want people to smile and tap their toes, but I want it to be meaningful when the day is done.

Web series is a new format, where everything, from the writing to storytelling is different. As an actor you have to approach it differently because you have a character which can go on for a long time. It is my duty to be on my toes, understand the new technology and adapt.

One character mistook me for the model and remarked ‘That Man-Tan sure works wonders!’ That ain’t Man-Tan. I’m tan, man. From my head to my toes.

I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.

For sure, competition is healthy. It is! It keeps everybody on their toes. It keeps everybody sharp.

Keeping people on their toes is the best way to get the best out of people.

What is excellence? It is about going a little beyond what we expect from ourselves. Part of the need for excellence is imposed on us externally by our customers. Our competition keeps us on our toes, especially when it is global in nature.

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I’m a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

I don’t like to see men’s toes – especially if they aren’t groomed.

Being natural is incredibly empowering for women because it’s just who you are. You’re embracing all the beautiful things about you from your head to your toes. Because when you mask so much of your natural beauty, people don’t get to see that.

Ive always loved Jamaica as its weather is so different from that in England. Theres something lovely, too, about walking along the beach in the evening, with sand between your toes, the sound of waves lapping and the breeze rustling the leaves.

Things change very quickly. You have to be prepared and ready and on your toes at all times.

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.

Whenever a gentle pressure is used to make a slight change in leg posture, the neck muscles react immediately. Conversely, when the therapist helps one to ‘release’ the neck muscles, it is amazing to see quite pronounced movements for instance of the toes, even when one is lying on a couch.

I can’t even touch my toes!

I’m very confident with who I am and how I lead, and I’m a problem solver and like to keep myself on my toes.