Stubbed Quotes

#1. The fire was set in the Library of Records by the Baudelaire murderers, and has spread to the Sore Throat Ward, the Stubbed Toe Ward, and the Accidentally Swallowed Something You Shouldn't Have Ward.

Lemony Snicket

#2. Ralph started to scream in pain. Not that 'stubbed your toe' sort of pain, but more a kind of 'detached kneecap' kind of pain, only with seven simultaneous childbirths, neuralgia, and a tooth abscess all mixed in as well, for good luck. The sort you hope you never get to experience.

Jasper Fforde

#3. Their Invisibility Cloak didn't stop them making any noise, and there was a particularly tense moment when Ron stubbed his toe only yards from the spot where Snape stood standing guard. Thankfully, Snape sneezed at almost exactly the moment Ron swore.

J.K. Rowling

#4. I painted my toenails before Dennis Rodman. One time at training camp, I stubbed my toe and the nail came loose. My mom gave me some toenail hardener, and I painted over it. I scored 40-something points that night, so it became a ritual. Paint my toenails, score 40 points.

Shaquille O'Neal

#5. I stubbed my toe just as someone dropped a book into the inside drop box. As I yelped and howled in pain, a child on the other side said,

'Mommy, I think we hurt the book!

Gina Sheridan

#6. All this talk about what a marvelous future science'll bring us? Art can change things just as much.' She stubbed out her cigarette. 'Maybe better.'
'Why's that?'
'Art doesn't kill anyone.

Ellen Klages

#7. I went for a walk and I stubbed my big toe. And my erection.

Jarod Kintz

#8. A stubbed in the back could only be from a friend.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Sophie said a bad word. In the dim light she had stubbed her toe on one of the many dusty bricks piled around the place.
Naughty-naughty" Twinkle said.
Oh shut up!" Sophie said , standing on one leg to hold her toe. "Why don't you grow up?

Diana Wynne Jones

#10. . . . a shrunken old man, squashed into the chair like a stubbed-out cigarette.

Pascal Garnier

#11. I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

Emile Zola

#13. Watch where you leave your victims! I stubbed my toe on that.

Jonathan Stroud

#14. Until that moment she had not really noticed him. Now she felt as though she'd stubbed her toe on a rock, and looked down to find that it was part of a buried city.

Gillian Bradshaw

#15. Stubbed it out in the ashtray she had been using before, for her equally

Javier Marias

#16. That was when the dwarf turned to the eunuch and said, "I've killed my father," in the same tone a man might use to say, "I've stubbed my toe.

George R R Martin

#17. I muttered a swear word to myself. After I heard Angel cussing like a sailor when she stubbed her toe, my new resolution was to watch my language. All I needed was a six-year-old mutant with a potty mouth

James Patterson

#18. The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.

J. Vernon McGee

#19. Women have a way of contorting things sometimes. We all have our moods, ups and downs. Or if the guy doesn't say anything when you walk out with a new top and the guy has no idea why you're mad at him. So of course, women are complicated.

Malin Akerman

#20. Europe's history of trading relations with India is borne out in the writings of the ancient historians Herodotus, Pliny, Petronius and Ptolemy, and

Shashi Tharoor

#21. I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

Irvin S. Cobb

#22. He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.

Marcus Aurelius