Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Selma Blair

I put my foot in my mouth every time I'm interviewed.

Si Robertson

I am the MacGyver of cooking. If you bring me a piece of bread, cabbage, coconut, mustard greens, pigs feet, pine cones...and a woodpecker, I'll make you a good chicken pot pie.

Shia LaBeouf

My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.

Shel Silverstein

TREE HOUSE A tree house, a free house, A secret you and me house, A high up in the leafy branches Cozy as can be house. A street house, a neat house, Be sure to wipe your feet house Is not my kind of house at all- Let's go live in a tree house.

Tara Lipinski

It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.

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.

Leo Tolstoy

And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.

Peter Norvig

Let me just say that, if you ever have the choice of putting your words in powerpoint or having them carved into 30-foot high marble, I'd say go for the marble.

Peter O'Toole

Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!

John Dryden

If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest.

They had all the size. But we met them halfway and tried to make them score from 10 feet out instead of 5 feet out.

Its not smart basketball, that's what it is. Your in the wrong position with your feet, or we're down there fouling him (Lance) forty feet from the basket. You can't do that. We're just not playing smart basketball. We're really inconsistent. At times we play all right, and other times we don't. We're just not playing very smart.

Kevin Constantine

It wasn't even close. It was obviously a high stick and somebody out there has to see it. It wasn't just high, it was two feet high.

Ed Begley, Jr.

People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

Audre Lorde

Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.

William Shakespeare

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

Charlotte Bronte

I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.

Dick Cavett

I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.

Edgar Guest

When you're up against a trouble, meet it squarely, face to face. Lift your chin and set your shoulders, plant your feet and take a brace. When it's vain to try to dodge it, do the best that you can do. You may fail, but you may conquer. See it through!

Arthur Eddington

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into nature. We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origin. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the foot-print. And Lo! it is our own.

Charles Lyell

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.

Bill Richardson

You have a 12-foot fence. You know what'll happen? Thirteen foot ladders.

Mike D'Antoni

We are getting our feet a little bit. A little desperation time, but we are a young team and we are fighting.

Bruce Brown

Through all of it we try to keep him humble and keep his feet on the ground.

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.

We'd like to get them back on their feet and make sure they get a full recovery.

John Lindsay

We don't have any ready. It's not just something you pack up and go. You have to work on it all year to make sure their feet are in good shape and they have no blemishes.