Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis D. Brandeis

No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.

Malcolm Forbes

When young, you're shocked by the number of people who turn out to have feet of clay. Older, you're surprised by the number of people who don't.

Mahalia Jackson

My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.

Origen

God puts Christ's enemies as a footstool beneath His feet, for their salvation as well as their destruction.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

Epictetus

Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.

Emily Bronte

I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.

Emily Dickinson

Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.

Emily Dickinson

The WILL is always near, dear, though the feet vary.

Emily Dickinson

What fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot- The opening of a Door.

Josh Smith

It's the ultimate conceptual artwork. I took a piece of metal and just painted an image of a stop sign on it - a four-by-four-foot stop sign.

Joshua Homme

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

Leonard Cohen

When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.

Lauren Ambrose

I know stealing a foot is weird. But, hello, living in a house where a foot is available to be stolen is weird.

Linda Ronstadt

I never went to the Beatles' concerts to scream. I never screamed at anybody's show. I was on my feet with the entire, all of the crowned heads of Motown, and we were shrieking our guts out.

Jonathan Raban

The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at your feet.

Paul Westerberg

There is that unpredictability of the seasons that I enjoy. I like the threat of a tornado. I like the threat of four feet of snow.

Meher Baba

Let not the dirt of the sanskaras of your thoughts and deeds touch you, by surrendering every thought and act at the feet of your Guru. As a laundryman washes and cleans clothes, in the same way, I remove all the dirt which has stuck to you through your thoughts and actions.

Martina Navratilova

Just put one foot in front of the other and don't worry about the length of the path. Once you get on that path, and the longer you stay on it, there eventually will come a time when you will not turn back.

Pink

I tend to put my foot in my mouth. I'm not good at being diplomatic. I tend to piss people off.

Philippe Petit

Wirewalker, trust your feet! Let them lead you; they know the way.

Rachel Caine

There is two feet of space between us, and about a mile of separation.

Rachel Caine

Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker," he told her. "My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind of like wasp spray." Oh. "You get me the nicest things." "Anybody can get jewelry. Posers

Pete Seeger

And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they never knew existed, or a crowd joins in on a chorus as though to raise the ceiling a few feet higher, then they also know there is hope for the world.

Tim Howard

Good keepers sniff out attacks whether with the feet or a throw out.

Robert A. Heinlein

The meek shall inherit the earth - a 6 foot plot above them.

Ringo Starr

The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.

Ringo Starr

I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.

Richie Havens

My right wrist is connected to the left foot. You know, if the left foot doesn't work, the right wrist doesn't work, and that's really the truth.

Tim Robbins

I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.

Steven Wright

A cop stopped me for speeding/ He said, 'Why were you going so fast?' I said, 'See this thing my foot is on? It's called an accelerator. When you push down on it, it sends more gas to the engine. The whole car just takes right off. And see this thing [mimes steering wheel]? This steers it'

Tom Hanks

When you're on the open sea and you drop 10, 12 feet and your stomach goes up around your neck - that's when you have problems.

Tibor Fischer

I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about.