Keep On Your Toes Quotes

#1. It was a small of her back and her face that got so tired. Their (her retail employer's) mono was supposed to be, 'Keep on your toes and smile.' Once she was out of the store she had to frown a long time to get her face natural again. Even her ears were tired.

Carson McCullers

#2. 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.

Cass McCombs

#3. You got to do what's happening today in the world. You got to keep up with time. Keep up to date, keep modern - keep up on your toes!

Jack LaLanne

#4. It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes.

Cass McCombs

#5. I'm pretty sure my baby girl has better things to do with you than keep you on your toes.

Rochelle Paige

#6. America?" said Gamesh, smiling. "Roland, what's American to you? Or me, or those tens of thousands up in the the stands? It's just a word they use to keep your nose to the grindstone and your toes to the line. America is the opiate of the people.

Philip Roth

#7. It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.

Tori Amos

#8. Be young. Keep yourself young by having a good, sporty car like a Corvette. It keeps you on your toes. It keeps you young. It keeps you thinking young. It keeps you thinking modern and good things. Corvette is a modern, modern automobile.

Jack LaLanne

#9. The good pupils are often brilliant, and they keep you on your toes and take you to the limits of your knowledge. The worst pupils provide a unique insight into the criminal mind.

John Le Carre

#10. Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.

Tom Waits

#11. God, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in the middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes.

Paulo Coelho

#12. If I'm supposed to keep an eye on you, then I'll be sleeping right here." She pointed meaningfully at the sleeping bag. "What? In here? With me? In the same room?" "No, Frankie Stick-A-Butter, I'm going to hang from the pipes by my toes, fold my wings around me, and snore in your face all night.

James Crawford

#13. Every star knows you step on some toes to get where you're going - and some more after you get there. Nobody means to hurt anybody else, it just happens. You always keep saying in the back of your mind that one day you will be able to right all the wrongs. That someday almost never comes.

Jayne Mansfield

#14. Stay triumphant, keep on living. Stay on your toes, get off the ropes. Don't let 'em ever count you out.

Mariah Carey

#15. History is an enigmatic mistress who likes to keep her lovers on their toes

Anonymous

#16. You know, sometimes I think I love you."
"Sometimes?" he asked in mock outrage.
She ruffled his hair. "All the time. But I've got to keep you on your toes."
"Consider me kept.

Richelle Mead

#17. Ask hard questions to yourself, for yourself. Keep your happiness on toes. Let it refine itself.

Ashutosh Gupta

#18. I worked next to an elephant. And considering that she could step on your toes, it's a good idea to keep a certain distance. It's also a good idea to befriend the trainer.

Christoph Waltz

#19. We have gained reality and lost dream. No more lounging under a tree and peering at the sky between one's big and second toes; there's work to be done. To be efficient, one cannot be hungry and dreamy but must eat steak and keep moving.

Robert Musil

#20. He sucked in his breath as his saw me, his eyes traveling from my toes to my hips, as if he hadn't seen it all before.
"Jesus," he whispered, gaze lingering everywhere. "I keep forgetting that you're art already." ...

Karina Halle

#21. How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme."
"Bizarre and adorable?"
"Just like you."
"With rings in your pockets and bells on your toes"
"Ooh, I should really invest in some toes bells.

Shannon Hale

#22. Susan's fingers wandered, and her eyes sparkled. "Your mouth says no," she purred, "but this says yes."
I went up on my toes, and swallowed, trying to keep my balance and get her hand off me at the same time. "That thing is always saying something stupid," I told her.

Jim Butcher

#23. But life isn't really about just geting by. Right when you've lulled yourself into a false sense of security, it likes to throw in a plot twist. Keep you on your toes.

Amber L. Johnson

#24. It's hard to keep your balance standing tip-toe.

Laozi