Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

Alan Bennett

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.

Chinua Achebe

If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.

David Sedaris

My feet are completely flat, but for most of my life they were still shaped like feet. Now, thanks to bunions, they're shaped more like states, wide boring ones that nobody wants to drive through.

David Mitchell

Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.

Dave Barry

UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.

Bruno Latour

Be not the one who debunks but the one who assembles, not the one who lifts the rugs from under the feet of the naive believers but the one who offers arenas in which to gather.

Bryan Stevenson

Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders could transport thousands of slaves at a fraction of the cost than they could transport by boat, and certainly by foot. And that's how Montgomery became such an active slave-trading space.

William Shakespeare

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

Louis C. K.

Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.

Dave Ramsey

Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!

Dan Millman

Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

John H. Johnson

When I see a barrier, I cry and I curse, and then I get a ladder and climb over it.

Jerry Hall

The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.

George Bernard Shaw

I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

Erich Fromm

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

J. C. Watts

I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.

J. Cole

Life is a movie, pick your own role, Climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole.

Bruce Brownlee

We've already started to put up the fence around the site.

Tony Stewart

We need to be a little better than we are. But I didn't knock the fence down.

Akiva ben Joseph

The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.

Mark Metzger

We still have the land issues to resolve and a lot of work to do. I think one of the things we need to do is to mend fences with people about the boundaries.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.

Roman Phifer

I was right on the fence (between playing and retirement).

Peter Woolley

One month ago, people were on the fence. A month later, people are off the fence and forming hard opinions. A month ago, people were waiting to see what the governor would do. Now they've seen some of it and their initial reaction is negative.

James Wolcott

Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.

Noel Forgeard

Nobody will remember who was second after the fourth fence in last week's Grand National. It's where you finish that matters.