#toe

While she could hardly fathom what had just happened to her that night, she reached some conclusions before she fell asleep, certain things now made perfect sense; Moon River didn’t sound so syrupy, mistletoe wasn’t such a bad idea, and perhaps dating was not such a frivolous waste of time after all. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#falling-in-love #funny-but-true #humour #humourosly-inspirational #love

also in the boom of the big bell there is a quaintness of tone which wakens feelings, so strangely far-away from all the nineteenth-century part of me, that the faint blind stirrings of them make me afraid, - deliciously afraid. never do I hear that billowing peal but I become aware of a striving and a fluttering in the abyssal part of my ghost, - a sensation as of memories struggling to reach the light beyond the obscurations of a million million deaths and births. I hope to remain within hearing of that bell... and, considering the possibility of being doomed to the state of a jiki-ketsu-geki, I want to have my chance of being reborn in some bamboo flower-cup, or mizutame, whence I might issue softly, singing my thin and pungent song, to bite some people that I know. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#mosquitoes #poignant #reincarnation #tongue-in-cheek #death

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#fyodor-dostoevsky #hipsters #ignorance #politics #wisdom

Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine. ↗

— Robin Leach

#bring #britain #change #cheap #could

I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#been #easily #guy #had #hollywood

Men don't have to tiptoe around me - you can say anything and I won't get offended. ↗

— Michael Michele

#around #get #i #me #men

I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark. ↗

— Bill Parcells

#demanding #expected #grew #i #mark

You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor. ↗

— Harold Perrineau

#blow #cage #him #just #movie

Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather. ↗

— Dan Rather

#big #came #country #entire #entire country

I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice. ↗

— Cesar Romero

#ankles #below #corn #i #plasters