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«The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.»
Author: Isadora Duncan
(Dancer)
| Keywords:
affected, ballet, ballets, ballet dancer, dancer, School of, supple, toe
«When the prima ballerina found ground glass in her toe slipper every other dancer in the company was equally suspect.»
Author: Shana Alexander
(Editor, Host, Journalist, Teacher)
| Keywords:
ballerina, Ballerinas, dancer, every other, glass in, ground glass, Prima, prima ballerina, slipper, slippers, toe
«You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
| Keywords:
chance, faster, getting, On Your Toes, somewhere, standing, stand fast, stub, stubbed, stubbing, stubs, toe
«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.»
Author: Dan Rather
| Keywords:
accurate, big game, big toe, grandmother, predicting, reliable, researcher, researchers, samples, toe
«Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag.»
«The toe of the star-gazer is often stubbed»
Author: Russian Proverb
| Keywords:
Gazer, On Your Toes, star, stub, stubbed, stubbing, stubs, The Star, toe
«OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe in which so many pious naturalists have seen a conspicuous evidence of design. The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
conspicuous, defect, ingeniously, naturalist, naturalists, ostrich, pious, The Ostrich, toe-in, toe
«What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
accidentally, another planet, chance upon, glimpse, lighting, light touch, motoring, scenes, sense of touch, tip, toe, touches, uncovered, uncovering, uncovers, unrecorded, voyager, voyagers
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