Toe Quotations

In my head, I consider 'No Turning Back' my 'dipping the toe in the water' album. It was mostly covers of favorite songs, and there were three originals in there. So, it feels like it was just my album to see what the temperature of the water was.

I was always told I had to be an example to my siblings. I was told to toe the line. So I had to behave.

There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.

I have been obsessed with seamed stockings my whole life, and I would collect vintage ones that were made in the '40s and '50s with the authentic styling of the keyhole, the welt, the reinforced toe and heels, French or Cuban heels, and hand-stitched seams.

I've been a huge fan of all things paranormal my whole life. For me, it was always a question of when, not if, I was going to write a paranormal series. I dipped my toe in the genre by incorporating a mystical curse into the 'MacCarrick Brothers Trilogy.'

In pageants, you are evaluated from head to toe and it's obviously all about looks, and as vain as that is, they can also bring you lots of opportunities to do amazing things.

When I hung up my toe shoes, I didn't look back. In all my years, I have never looked back.

The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off.

Boston is so laced with jerseys that you can be dressed head to toe in team apparel and no one will look twice.

You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle.

I'm a jewelry girl. I became with friends with designer Irene Neuwirth a few years ago. At that point, I just used to wear my wedding rings. Very low key. Now, if I could, I'd be draped from head to toe in her jewelry all the time. Everything she makes is beautiful.

I just coach the way I was coached when I was young, in my formative years. I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.

The first story I ever sold was to 'Argosy' magazine, which no longer exists. That issue also contained work by several other more celebrated writers, like Ray Bradbury - so I felt I had at least one toe on the ladder.

My acting has always been in the world of comedy, but in my writing, other than writing sketches, I really am drawn to the balance between comedy and drama. I like things that sort of toe that line of one minute you're in this emotional space and then all of the sudden something happens.

On the flip side, he's going to make the guys toe the line and play the game the right way. It will be professionally run. There won't be anything left to chance. Joe will have everything covered.

When the match is poised at 1-1, you know one mistake could be crucial and there is an understandable nervousness. We seem to want to score the perfect goal when I'd much rather see us get scruffy ones - a toe poke or a ricochet.

I dipped my toe into network television, and it bit me. A little. Not some horror story.

If they're going to go toe to toe with Citigroup, they're going need to have more powerhouse entry in the investment banking area, ... This is not the end of Chase's acquisitions in the investment banking field.

I feel the toe a little bit now but I prefer to do it like that and get used to doing it the way I normally do it and see what the results are going to be.

We've gone from serving people who are very liberal to grandmas wearing toe rings. We sell to all ages, primarily women 32 to 42 years old.

I am hopeful. I think the stars are aligned on this. The Chinese have stuck their little toe in the water, and it didn't freeze off. I think the time is right for them to take the next step.

He has more passion in his right toe than other internationals have in both legs.

His toe has cleared up and he is okay now. It's just a case of getting him fit.

He's been solid since we picked him up. I think someone stepped on his toe or something so that's why he came out of the game. We put a little pad under it, so I think that's why he wasn't able to turn and push but he was fine coming back for the ball. But after that he didn't have that burst that he had in the first half.

Hopefully, this thing subsides and he's going to be able to toe that slab here before the year is over, but we have no projected date for him, ... There's no way he's going to be able to take the ball in Anaheim.

We took the approach that we're playing an 11-round championship fight. Right now we've completed seven rounds and we're on round eight. And we also have some lessons to teach from last year when we had a chance and our destiny in our own hands. We stubbed our toe a little bit at the end.

People need to go to a professional shoe store, and they don't like to hear that because they know it will be expensive. But these are your feet, and having the proper shoes can save you from a lot of toe and back problems in the future.

Penn State's defense was good; I think we had opportunities that we weren't willing to take half chances. I've got young players right now that want every goal to be a World Cup-quality goal. A toe poke counts just as much as a bicycle kick so we have to take chances and shoot the ball more.

Over the past week he's finally physically and psychologically recovered from his turf toe injury. That has been an obstacle for Eddie for a good six months or so, and that's completely past him. ... I think over the next couple of months Eddie should be back in full form and be a player who's challenging certainly for a spot on the World Cup roster.

We have a lot of competition now. There are cheap rings sold in malls for $3.50 each, but we've made our business on a sized toe ring.

We're talking about 10% of the screens in the United States becoming digital. This makes it a very sizable toe in the water.

We're talking about 10 percent of the screens in the United States becoming digital. This makes it a very sizable toe in the water.

You don't corrupt the democratic process in the hopes that terrorists might toe the line. To get into this club, you have to accept the rules of the club. You give up your weaponry, you accept democratic and peaceful means -- and that entitles you to be part of the democratic process.

We got off to a great start but just kind of stubbed our toe when they went to that zone defense. They pretty much took care of our inside game the second half and made it kind of rough on us.

Michelle could win the Olympics, she is definitely qualified to win a medal. We really do believe that. She's skating very well. Not every element was performed perfectly, but they were at a high level. We weren't really keeping score. We were looking for her competitive fitness. She did a triple lutz-double toe combination several times.

We have to tighten up in the field. We had some injuries coming in with Katie Cooley having surgery on her toe (on Monday) and Gina McCloud struggling with a back injury. We're a little beat up right now. We need some people to step up and that's what we struggled with tonight.

We had a lot of injuries that were the result of individuals not following proper gun-handling safety precautions. We always stress that hunters don't point the gun at their toe and don't point a gun with the safety off.

The extra two days won't hurt. He was confident he could pitch, but the toe has been bothering him a little bit.

We have six people who are trying to get into that relay and, if the girls don't toe the line, I am sure the coaches will have something to say. They want a cohesive team out there on the track.

Yes it will, and I think Monterrey is just over an hour away by air. We felt it was very important to have an association with a Mexican team and we've created this Rio Grande Plate. We have a two-year agreement for 2006 and 2007 -- we expect that it will be a much longer lasting agreement than that, but we wanted to kind of put our toe in the water and see how it looks. I think it's going to be very positive.

We're hearing that some stations are dipping their toe in the water over $3 now.

Yeah, and then he stubs his toe on the way out of the stadium,

We are really trying to dip our toe into that arena more and more.

When the prima ballerina found ground glass in her toe slipper every other dancer in the company was equally suspect.

There are many facets to the market. One facet has been that money managers have been willing to dip their toe in the water.

We view this having the potential to incrementally help the area a little, ... It's a toe in the water.

Women tell me they won't date a guy with bad shoes. There are good-looking guys with good-looking outfits, and then really bad-looking square toe I-don't-even-want-to-mention-the-label kind of shoes. There is no reason for that. Again, invest in something that looks proper. A great pair of shoes can make your old outfit look great, too.

Until we get a league up and running, we can't expect to be in the media at home. We need that to get a toe hold. We win just by being here, and if we take away any money, that's a huge help.

With my toe tap, I need the at-bats to get ready. It's a timing thing.

We stubbed our toe a little bit this morning.

dipping a cautious toe in, and I'm sure they are still holding a lot of cash on the sidelines, waiting to see how earnings come in.

We try to reconstruct the skeletons. All the arm bones, leg bones and toe bones go back together.

As I started working out and getting in shape just in case I was coming back I was like, you know what, this is OK. It really came down to whether the toe was going to be able to hold up or not. I was prepared to stay and here I am.

Assuming that Nike gets her from head to toe that would be Nike equipment, Nike clothes, the whole bit she would have nothing but Swooshes. That's the number she would automatically get from just signing. Overnight, she would get $10 million to $12 million. It depends on how the contract is structured, but that's what I'm hearing.

The toe is doing great and it's getting better every day. I'm trying to push myself in these little mini games we've been having and the little competitions we've been having in training camp.

The toe of the star-gazer is often stubbed

As the game went on, we got a little more beaten up. It's going to be physically tough for us to stay toe to toe with some of the teams around here.

I've separated my shoulder and my collarbone; I've messed up my knee a million times. I've broken my foot in several places. I've broken my toe a bunch, broken my nose a couple of times, and had a bunch of other annoying little injuries, like turf toe and arthritis and tendonitis. It's part of the game.

Tonight was a big night for us. But so is (Saturday) night. If we stub our toe (against New Orleans), then this one means nothing.

To tap a toe to. It's a joke. It takes something out of it when you have to explain the jokes.

Browns Glory: For the Love of Ozzie, The Toe and Otto,

No one wants to play more than Pedro does. So if it's at all possible, he will play. Obviously, his toe is still an issue. I spoke with a representative of Pedro within the last 24 hours. It is still possible he will play, but at best it's 50-50 right now.

With the completion of these repairs and a properly functioning drainage system, we are confident that we should not experience any more problems at the toe of Salt Fork Lake dam.

Actually, I wanted to be a toe dancer. My mother did an act in London. She had two girls who did a little ballet number while she changed gowns between the songs she was performing. And when the ballet slippers wore out, she brought them home to me. I put them on and could walk all over the house on my toes.

said Donahue. ''And Steve is a hard-nosed, hard-working player who's usually covered from head to toe with dirt by the end of the game, kind of the picture of an old-fashioned lineman.

People don't realize the effects of dancing on your body. I'm completely head to toe lean, and I've just lost two jean sizes.

Feinstein is dipping her toe into the very ugly, muddy waters of religious bigotry. America's Founding Fathers considered religious beliefs to be an asset, even essential to public officeholders. Sadly, Sen. Feinstein apparently believes the opposite of those wise men to whom we owe gratitude for our free and strong country.

Flat, rubber soles, soft materials, open toe. We did a wedge shoe -- not too high, four centimeters, and it comes in an open toe or mule or a closed pump. It's very comfortable and looks a bit like a nurse's shoe.

thinly disguised propaganda urging women to be decorative, toe the line and marry (rich).

This is a way to dip your toe in the water without getting into deep vulnerability, so you're participating in the blue chips.

I learned that the heart pumps blood to your pinky toe and then the veins send the extra stuff back to the heart, ... I didn't know that before.

Incredibly, Apple has persuaded Disney, which owns ABC, to make available all episodes of five TV series, including 'Lost,' 'Desperate Housewives' and 'Thats So Raven.' Each show costs $1.99 an easy impulse buy if you missed an episode. They play back beautifully, with no network logo in the corner, no yearlong wait for the DVD, and no commercials. (One 43-minute 'hour' of TV takes 12 minutes to download with my cable modem, and about two minutes to transfer to the iPod over its U.S.B. 2.0 cable.) ...That Mr. Jobs persuaded Disney to dip its pinky toe into these waters is an impressive development and a very promising sign.

In hindsight again, you would like to see a higher factor of safety today. But, you really can go back to the same two things: the actual failure mechanism was not anticipated and then the sheer strength at the toe of the levee was weaker.

I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.

I'm a total rink rat. I can do the toe loop, the lutz, a flip, and the Scholz. That's one I invented. It's like me - you jump, you rotate in the wrong direction, and you land on the wrong foot.

I like the six wins, and I don't like the six losses. The good news is, we didn't really stub our toe against the teams we should beat, but the bad news is that we didn't knock off any of the (quality) opponents.

If you know what turf toe is like, it's miserable. We just want to make sure he's healthy.

If you rap your knuckles against a window jamb or door, if you brush your leg against a bed or desk, if you catch your foot in a curled-up corner of a rug, or strike a toe against a desk or chair, go back and repeat the sequence. You will find yourself surprised how far off course you were to hit that window jamb, that door, that chair. Get back on course and do it again. How can you pilot a spacecraft if you can't find your way around your own apartment?

I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and curse and keep trying to guess what belongs in the space.

No, and I don't plan to, ... Everybody talks about how great it is to hear Hell's Bells and his entrance into the game, but as soon as he is about to toe that rubber, I'm gone.

That got me up in the fence, and then my car wouldn't go. That knocked the toe out of it, but I guess it's a good thing it happened then and not in the middle of the race.

Everybody's basically putting their toe in the water. We're all aware how hugely significant this is going to become both culturally and financially in the next couple of years.

A bad wife wishes her husband's heel turned homewards, and not his toe

It surprised me, I started laughing, ... Thomas Bjorn thought that was kind of funny. I was looking down the fairway and just kind of tinged the ball with the toe of my club. I did that one time at the Bob Hope Classic and hit it 60 yards. Almost killed about six old people on the right at Bermuda Dunes.

That's another reason why this was such a big game. We stubbed our toe a couple of times early, and we couldn't afford to let that happen again this weekend.

He's such a gentle person, very patient, and he can give information to kids and beginners in a way that they understand. He has good recall of details. You know, like the third toe is always purple on the left foot, that kind of stuff.

He stubbed his toe and still managed to win.

It was just two great teams out there going at it toe to toe. The game could have gone either way, but the girls made some big plays in the last four minutes of the game.

They have these drivers now that have weights in the toe and in the heel, so that if you're slicing the ball, you slice it in the exact right place. We didn't have that. We used a lot of lead tape, and still do.

They like to put their toe on the bridge before they put their foot on the bridge.

They were all soaked from head to toe from how much it rained.

It's certainly emboldened those who would be president to come up here a little earlier and show a little leg. As they do that, as folks come through, they talk more about their take on issues, and they're less likely to toe the White House line on everything.

The great concern here is if we find ourselves threatened and intimidated so as to toe the government line; that's the big problem.

The heel is high and the toe is pointed.

The first week of camp has been good. The whole organization has been good at working me back into it slowly. My toe is feeling great. Right now I'm just trying to get my form back.

It's OK we're just learning from our mistakes. We just made a couple of little mistakes and they scored on us. Other than that, we were with them toe to toe and just couldn't put it away.

It might be good for the league if they did go 16-0. It would give us some national attention in our league. I don't see anybody else getting them unless they stub their toe somewhere.

It's all about putting a toe in the water. You might want to go see what kind of response you get. Do New Hampshire audiences react to you the same as audiences in your home state? For a lot of these folks, they may not really know how they're going to be perceived.

The numbers seem a bit aggressive, but you will see rapid adoption near term. Companies are dipping their toe in the water and waiting for the technology to mature.