Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kourtney Kardashian

I'm five feet tall - I'm very petite - so for me, if I'm wearing a skirt or dress, it needs to be short, or else it makes me look frumpy. I need to wear either something really short or a maxi dress; anything in between just looks weird.

Oprah Winfrey

To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.

Oliver North

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

Khloe Kardashian

Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds when they meet me.

Ken Livingstone

One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.

Mark Twain

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

Paul Gauguin

Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.

Laurence J. Peter

When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.

Larry Wall

Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.

Larry Wall

What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

Paul Claudel

How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods

Patsy Cline

It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.

Jay Wright

For some reason in the first half, it was like our feet were frozen. I've got to watch the film to understand it.

Ivan Turgenev

All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.

Isak Dinesen

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.

Iris Johansen

If your feet are firmly planted on the grount you'll never be able to dance.

Imre Kertesz

Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.

Gloria Vanderbilt

I've resolved so many things in my life. I like the idea of showing that you can go through a lot and still be on your feet, still be working, and still be positive about life.

J. Michael Straczynski

Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.

J. K. Rowling

Karakarof spat onto the ground at Dumbledore's feet. In one swift movement, Hagrid seized the front of Karkaroff's furs, lifted him into the air, and slammed him against a nearby tree.

J. K. Rowling

Beside him, making scarcely a sound, walked James, Sirius, Lupin, and Lily, and their presence was his courage, and the reason he was able to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

Ken Wilber

Being completely and totally present and at every single point of space and time, It is fully and completely present here and now, thus we can no more attain immanent Spirit then we could, say, attain our feet.

Keith Richards

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

Kit Williams

As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.

There?s a mud room for the guys, because they come in with muddy feet from being out in the field.

Scott Skiles

There was a lot of out-of-position fouling. If we don't let them go to the line that much, we probably get the win. We had a lot of trouble (defensively). The last three games, we haven't, but tonight we did it again. We didn't move our feet and play proper position defense.

Shashi Tharoor

On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.

Michael Pollan

A French poet famously referred to the aroma of certain cheeses as the ‘pieds de Dieu’—the feet of god. Just to be clear: foot odor of a particularly exalted quality, but still—foot odor.

Seth Gordon

I feel like my own background in improv and doing documentaries makes me really comfortable with a situation where you're letting things unfold and you don't have to be a jerk, stomping his feet, trying to get his way on everything.

Toks Olagundoye

People tend to comment on my feet a lot. In daily life.

Sidney Lumet

The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Now, if you don’t mind, I’m going to sit over here with my throbbing feet and bleed in silence until we get to our destination. (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Cause I’m gonna put my foot so far up their butts they’re going to burp shoe leather. (Nick)