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It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental.
Ali SmithRead
Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion.
Franklin D. RooseveltRead
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
Bill GatesRead
Come and trip it as ye go_x000D_ _x000D_ On the light fantastic toe.
John MiltonRead
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.
Harry S. TrumanRead
I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.
Philip RothRead
Then, in my most careful handwriting, come all the details it would be a crime to forget. Lady licking Prim's cheek. My father's laugh. Peeta's father with the cookies. The colour of Finnick's eyes. What Cinna could do with a length of silk. Boggs reprogramming the Holo. Rue poised on her toes, arms slightly extended, like a bird about to take flight. On and on. We seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their death count.
Suzanne CollinsRead
I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.
Jeannette WallsRead
If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.
Barbara KingsolverRead
Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes.
Robert A. HeinleinRead
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
Emile ZolaRead

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