Not Walking On Eggshells Quotes & Sayings

A lot of times, you feel like you're walking on eggshells in a creative environment, because everyone's having to watch out for egos so much of the time. — Tony Hale

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues. — Matt Taibbi

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind. — Norman Vincent Peale

Post-traumatic stress disorder didn't surface as a condition until 1980 ... that fact was very relevant when I remember back to how these men behaved. A lot of walking on eggshells was required for wives and children. — Matthew Nable

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got. — Toni Morrison

While most in the world worries about broken hearts. I worry about broken souls. — DyslexicParanoia

He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells. — Stieg Larsson

As an artist, you're always trying to reach a new height, do something new, try something you haven't done before, and push your boundaries. — Eric Balfour

That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. — Clint Eastwood

I spread eggshells all over my room, so anyone who tries to get close when I sleep will know what they're walking on — Josh Stern

Jake was hurting, emotionally and physically, and he was exhausted. He stared at her in wonder.
"You're going to name him after me?"
"I don't see any other father in this house."
Ignoring the pain throbbing in his hands, he drew her close, holding onto her tightly. It was the most precious gift she could have given him. — Lorraine Heath

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern. — John Fletcher

I did a couple comedies to balance myself as an actor and balance how audiences see Donnie Yen as an actor, and I would even say as a celebrity or icon, to some fans. I want to show that I'm not Terminator. — Donnie Yen

Eggshells become hard to break after walking on them for so long. — Mia Castile

For nearly four weeks, his family had been walking on eggshells around him, expecting him to fall apart at any moment and he was damn tired of it. He wished he could apart. Maybe it would hurt less if he could just say to hell with everything and find a corner to hide away in. — Nicola Sinclair

Most pedophiles are straight not gay. — Steven Petrow

I don't get particularly precious about things like this, though. Like the record company said, "We need a radio edit that delivers the hook" - I don't even know what they consider the hook in that song ["Oh No"] - "that delivers the hook sooner." So I'm like, "Okay. I see that." And they were all walking on eggshells, like is this going to be sacrilegious to me or something, to mess with this art I've created? And I'm like, "Great. I get to tinker with it, I get to mess with my song some more." — Andrew Bird

I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do. — Marcel Duchamp

Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest. — Scott McClanahan

Well, you know, I love being an entrepreneur and when I did 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Mr. Trump, he taught us a lot about starting businesses. — NeNe Leakes

I can barely recall a single holiday when my father didn't make a scene or create some kind of chaos. We were always walking on eggshells. — Dominique Moceanu

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God who'd just as soon dangle us all from a hook. And I can understand a tender, unprejudiced Jesus. But I could never quite feature the two of them living in the same house. You wind up walking on eggshells, never knowing which ... is at home at the moment. — Barbara Kingsolver

White fragility! White people are so sensitive about race and racial conversations. I feel like I'm always walking on eggshells when I'm around white people. — Margaret Cho