Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Ogilvy

Most headlines are set too big to be legible in the magazines or newspaper. Never approve a layout until you have seen it pasted into the magazine or newspaper for which it was destined. If you pin up the layouts on a bulletin board and appraise them from fifteen feet, you will produce posters.

Amy Carmichael

Ours should be the love that asks not 'how little?' but, 'how much?' The love that delights to pour out everything upon the feet of our Beloved.

Anthony de Mello

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Amy Grant

It takes a little time sometimes To get your feet back on the ground...

Anne Sexton

Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.

Andrew Solomon

I don't understand what the nature of God is. But I do have the feeling that I'm at some feet, and lucky to be there.

Ambrose Bierce

MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.

Alice James

Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?

Alice Childress

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.

Alice Cooper

The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.

Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through: "Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said. "Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe." Salon April 25, 2003

Anne Lamott

Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003

Danica Patrick

I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.

Dan Millman

Just handle what is in front of you now and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.

Dan Millman

If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig ten holes each 10 feet deep.

Andrew Pyper

Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.

Ann Richards

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

Anjem Choudary

Allah created my tongue to speak. I don't have freedom to come , because Allah created my feet to walk. So I walk, and I speak, and I look, and I hear according to what God says.

Anita Shreve

Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

Andrew Wyeth

I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.

Andrew Weil

Our feet are our body's connection to the earth.

Chuck Palahniuk

You have to jump into disaster with both feet.

Chuck Klosterman

Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.

Anne Bishop

You weren't afraid of me when I was Wolf," he said. "Why are you afraid of Nathan?" "He's got big feet!" "What?" An insulted-sounding arrroooo came from the other side of the door, a reminder that Wolves also had big ears.

Andrew Bird

The earth almost looks like it's packed down and dense from so many feet treading over it.

David Simon

The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.

David Pleat

Preki quite literally only has the one foot

David Livingstone

Creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet [30 m] and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen to twenty yards.

The staff here is wonder-ful, ... They've helped me get my feet wet and get me on the right track.

The thing that separates him from a lot of linemen is his mobility. He's got real good feet for a tall guy.

Norv Turner

The thing right now is he will lay down and get off his feet and rest.

People don't realize how hard we work. You're on your feet all day working shoulder to shoulder with the crew.

Randy Carlyle

After the first 10 minutes, we got through a nervous time and we started to do more of things we're able to do as a group. Are you happy that your group competed and got their feet wet. Yeah, you're happy in that sense, but you're not happy with the outcome because we lost the hockey game.