Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

Nancy Gibbs

I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.

Aaron Neville

Because TED is for, and by, unbelievably rich people, they tiptoe around questions of the justness of a society that rewards TED attendees so much for what usually amounts to a series of lucky breaks.

Alex Pareene

I always think it's hard for any young actor to make that transition to more grown-up roles. Because you don't want to alienate your audience who has been supportive of you for so many years, so you kind of have to tiptoe through that process.

Alexa Vega

Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

Barbara W. Tuchman

There are sometimes concerns about being respectful with a gay character, and you either end up with a tiptoeing quality or an all-out cliche.

Casey Wilson

As a kid, I had a Beatles poster and a Bela Lugosi as Dracula poster, so both worlds always appealed to me. Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music has to be aggressive. You can't tiptoe around. It has to be incredibly focused dramatically - no time for second thoughts.

Christopher Young

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Dag Hammarskjold

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

Doug Larson

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

Glenn Beck

I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they're not there. The last time I did a love scene, I couldn't keep a straight face.

Gretchen Mol

The hardest part of writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was probably the sheer amount of iambic pentameter and tiptoeing around certain scenes I knew would be hot-button issues for 'Star Wars' fans.

Ian Doescher

It's better not to wear too much jewellery - just a couple of nice things, nothing too rattly - and stick to kitten heels or flats. Women let themselves down with tall heels. I think they're kind of vulgar. I see women sinking into grass at outdoor parties or tiptoeing over gravel at weddings. It's silly. You need to be practical.

Jerry Hall

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Josh Billings

It's tough because, in this day and age, it feels like it doesn't matter who you are or what you're doing. You can never do anything right, so you have to kind of tiptoe your way around sometimes.

Justin Thomas

Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.

Karan Singh Grover

I like to make people feel more comfortable, and it's great to have this platform and be able to shed light on adoption and how it's a beautiful thing, instead of being tiptoed around.

Lana Condor

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

Malcolm de Chazal

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

Marisha Pessl

It's increasingly clear that governments, major corporations, banks, universities and other such bodies view the defense of their secrets as a desperate matter of institutional survival, so much so that the state has gone to extraordinary lengths to punish and/or threaten to punish anyone who so much as tiptoes across the informational line.

Matt Taibbi