Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Butler Yeats

Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high.

Willie Aames

I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow.

William S. Burroughs

Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut.

Virginia Woolf

I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

Vinoba Bhave

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

Xenophanes

This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity

William Watson

And though circuitous and obscureThe feet of Nemesis how sure!

William Watson

Thou hadst, for weary feet, the gift of rest.

W. C. Fields

Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.

William Davenant

How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian.

Will Smith

On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'

Warren Buffett

You could take all the gold that's ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. For what that's worth at current gold prices, you could buy all -- not some -- all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 Exxon Mobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money. Or you could have a big cube of metal. Which would you take? Which is going to produce more value?

Wendy Williams

Thank God I am 20 feet tall, so my crying is never mistaken as weak. It can be mistaken as weird, but not weak.

Werner Herzog

I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.

Werner Herzog

When I say tourism is sin and traveling on foot is virtue, it's condensed into a dictum. It's much more complex than that, but let's face it, for me, my experience, the world reveals itself to those that travel on foot. You understand the world in a much deeper level. And it does good to anyone who makes film.

Salman Rushdie

Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one. "The only people who can see the whole picture," he murmured, "are the ones who step out of the frame." (The ground beneath her feet.)

Wendy O. Williams

Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?

Jostein Gaarder

If I’d chosen never to the foot inside the great fairytale, I’d never have known what I’ve lost. Do you see what I’m getting at? Sometimes it’s worse for us human beings to lose something dear to us than never to have had it at all.

Kevin Hart

I know how easy it is to put your foot in your mouth.

Kevin Hart

I'm a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I'm not going to get any taller.

Kevin Hart

Because I'm small, I've been called things from 'Happy Feet' to 'Little Face.'

Kent Nerburn

We humans are destined to live with our feet on the earth and our heads in the heavens, and we can never be at peace because we are pulled both ways.

Kelly Ripa

Women's clutches are too small. I open my purse, and with some hydraulic force, a tampon shoots 12 feet into the air.

Keith Miller

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.

Katy Perry

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

Ramakrishna

As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet.

Rainbow Rowell

The snow came up to the top of Georgie's calves - she had to lift her feet high to make any progress. Her ears and eyelids were freezing ... God, she'd never even been able to imagine this much cold before. How could people live someplace that so obviously didn't want them?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

Lily Tomlin

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?

Lara Stone

In London, I really like going to the Mandarin Oriental. They can even do my feet without tickling me.

Thierry Henry

The moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

Terry Pratchett

Of course, like all the informal inhabitants of the University the roaches were a little unusual, but there was something particularly unpleasant about the sound of billions of very small feet hitting the stones in perfect time. Rincewind stepped gingerly over the marching column. The Librarian jumped it. The Luggage, of course, followed them with a noise like someone tapdancing over a bag of crisps.

Ted Hughes

It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly - I kill where I please because it is all mine. There is no sophistry in my body: My manners are tearing off heads - The allotment of death.