Famous Quotes & Sayings

Berthold Auerbach

When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.

She wouldn't leave until all the kids were out. She kept running in-between my feet while I was trying to get the other kids.

Silly me. I probably should have had him in there more getting shots 70 feet away from the basket.

She had a very nice season. I don't think we played as well without her there. She just always kept her feet moving and that was nice to see.

Six feet and a half inch. I need that half.

She kept her head about her, she kept her wits about her, she was observant, she paid attention, she thought on her feet as things were going along,

She is saying some sentences. Yesterday she walked 80 feet twice.

She needed 14 feet even and she jumped 14-feet-1-inch. It's a great accomplishment and I'd like to see a few more kids qualify.

Bruce Willis

Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.

Bruce Beresford

Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.

Bruce Campbell

If you have script problems and you don't fix them by the time you shoot, your script problems are now 40 feet tall.

Britt Ekland

I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills - I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships.

Britney Spears

I wish my hair was thicker, and I wish my feet were prettier. My toes are really ugly. I wish my ears were smaller. And my nose could be smaller too.

Barbara Kingsolver

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

Augusten Burroughs

Because here is the truth: If you want to have a chance at meeting somebody with whom you are genuinely compatible, never put your best foot forward.

Art Blakey

If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet.

We heard the roar and we went out. It was a good 15 feet high.

We didn't want to let her get her feet set. We tried to limit her touches and, when she had the ball, we wanted to make sure someone was in her face.

Edward Abbey

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

Edward Abbey

It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.

Aristotle

The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only. For there is a point at which a state may attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state, or at which, without actually ceasing to exist, it will become an inferior state, like harmony passing into unison, or rhythm which has been reduced to a single foot. The state, as I was saying, is a plurality which should be united and made into a community by education

Elizabeth Bishop

The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.

David Bowie

If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

She was only 5 feet tall, but he must have been scared, because the teen threw his license at her and took off again.

The point we made last night is that we will go for the head as much as the feet in this operation.

Natalia Makarova

I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling.

Angus Wilson

Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

Andy Grove

By the late '90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.

Amy Poehler

Change is the only constant. Learn to surf your life instead of planting your feet.

Amy Poehler

If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.

Ally Carter

It felt as if maybe the curse had lifted, the tide had shifted, but then the breeze picked up and a skeet took a very unfortunate turn. Seconds later, Angus was pulling his shot far to the right, shooting a large hole in the second-story galley not ten feet above Marcus's head.

Ally Carter

Sitting there that day, I knew that the only thing I could do was keep putting one foot in front of the other, hoping none of the secrets on my shoulders would make me lose my balance.

Ally Carter

So I stepped away, reminding myself that when you're a spy, sometimes all you can do is go on. One foot in front of the other, wherever the narrow path might lead.