“I used to sort of take the phone off the hook, you know, put my feet up and watch the TV until it was all over.” KnowsUsedWatchesFeetTvsPhonesHook Author:Nick Lowe
“I think that Eleanor Roosevelt really learned about the limits of power and influence from Arthurdale. She could not make some things happen. And she particularly learned that she could not, just because she was nominally in charge, she could not change people's hearts and minds; that a very long process of education would result before race was on the national agenda. And it really did move her into the racial justice arena with both feet. She came out fighting.” PeopleThinkingMindHeartLongHappensMovingFightingProcessJusticeResultsRaceFeetInfluenceLimitsThings HappenAgendasHeart And MindArenaEleanorRacial Justice Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“Clearly we're in historic times here. We have - one of the tributaries of the Mississippi River is a river called the Merrimack. And the crest areas there - they're going to be a number of feet, 2, 3, 4, over what they were in '93 or '82. And on the Mississippi River itself, down below St. Louis, we're still projecting a couple of feet over that historic number. So the bottom line is there's a significant amount of water that's causing evacuations and challenges throughout that whole area.” StillsWholeWaterChallengesLinesNumbersFeetAmountCoupleAreasRiversBottomSignificantHistoricBottom LineMississippiMississippi RiverEvacuation Author:Jay Nixon
“It's because you have no power. You give them all the material and the cinematographer, the director, the editor, boy what they can choose... You better hope they like you because they can slice and dice and make you look like a damn fool when your face and body are up there on a 30-foot screen.” GivingLooksBodyFacesBoysFeetMaterialsLike YouFoolDirectorsScreensDamnYour FaceEditorsDiceCinematographers Author:William Mapother
“"Joy" is based, albeit loosely, on the life of Joy Mangano, an entrepreneur, inventor and QVC shopping network star with the mega-selling Miracle Mop. Jennifer Lawrence is excellent as Joy, but the film starts off on the wrong foot with woeful depictions of her background as the only sane person in her dysfunctional family.” PersonsFilmJoyStarsFeetMiracleEntrepreneurBackgroundsSellingExcellentShoppingSaneInventorJenniferDysfunctional FamilyDepictionMega Author:Kenneth Turan
“I play a lot of basketball and racquetball, as they're both great for your feet and hand eye coordination. Other drills can help as well, such as simply catching a football in distant positions from different heights and velocities.” WellsDifferentPlayHelpingHandsEyeFeetPositionFootballBasketballHeightCatchingDrillsVelocityCoordinationRacquetball Author:Antonio Cromartie
“We used a racquetball and threw it off the wall as hard as we could, then tracked it down with our eyes and feet. Nike has new balls that bounce all sorts of different directions and really help you learn to track the ball and move your feet to react quickly.” DifferentHardHelpingEyeMovingUsedFeetWallBallsTrackBounceDifferent DirectionsNikeOff The WallRacquetball Author:Antonio Cromartie
“Footwork is definitely key for a linebacker. We make our money playing laterally. You've got to be able to move side to side and play sideline to sideline. So doing quick feet drills like ladders and keeping your footwork right is important.” ImportantPlayAbleMovingSidesFeetKeysLaddersDrillsSidelinesLinebackersFootwork Author:Brandon Spikes
“Basketball also helps you learn to move your feet by playing defense and guarding guys, and that all carries over to playing football with staying square and having good footwork.” HelpingMovingGuyFeetFootballBasketballDefenseStayingCarrieSquaresPlaying FootballGuardingFootworkPlaying Defense Author:Calvin Pryor
“The thought was, 'We're going to go to California, where the soil is black and ten feet deep, and there are no rocks, and there's gold in the hills.' The West becomes the surface onto which people project their fantasies, where once the future had been the place they projected their fantasies. So it's not just the war that ends the utopian communities, but what follows.” PeopleWarEndsBlackCommunityFantasyFeetRocksTenProjectsGoldWestSurfaceHillsCaliforniaSoilUtopian Author:Christine Jennings
“I believe that one of the reasons Gravity Falls is such an unusual place, maybe part of the reason that the stoplights switch on and off at random times and cell phones don't get proper reception and compasses spin wildly - is because of the strange kinetic influence of the UFO buried just underneath everyone's feet.” BelieveReasonFallI BelieveFeetInfluenceStrangePhonesCellsBuriedUnusualGravityCompassUfoCell PhoneAnd OffReception Author:Alex Hirsch
“I wanted to go in a different direction, artistically. But having somebody like Terry[Crews] in it was your ace in the hole. That makes it very strong, so I definitely had to jump in with both feet.” DifferentWantedStrongFeetHolesVery StrongCrewDifferent DirectionsAces Author:Ice Cube
“Have you seen the Vatican wall? It's over 50-feet high. It's over 50-feet high. It's not even the kind of wall [Donald] Trump's talking about building.” KindTalkingFeetBuildingWallTrumpOver 50 Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think we dip in and out of it. Every new show is trying to find their feet before they can say what they are. That's certainly something that I like about the role - going in and out of the personal life. There are some episodes where we go into it a little more, and some where we don't at all” ThinkingTryingLittlesShowsRolesFeetEpisodesPersonal LifeDip Author:Kristin Lehman
“Karl Agell sang for our Blind album which was our second best selling record. He's a great guy and as a matter of fact, before Mike, Woody and I really got going on touring on the old Animosity stuff, Karl & I did about a dozen shows performing the Blind album from start to finish. He's still a good friend of mine and is now in a band called Lead Foot that's more Rock and Roll but they're fantastic, kind of Thin Lizzy or MC5 sounding.” KindStillsMatterFactsShowsGuyStuffRecordsFeetRocksMinesBandBlindAlbumsSellingFantasticPerformingDozenGood FriendRock And RollMikeTouringMatter Of FactWoodyAnimositySecond BestGreat GuyLizzy Author:Reed Mullin
“I stayed in L.A. long enough to get on my feet, and then I moved back to New York. The reason I moved here was that I don't feel warm outside of a city; it's too barren in the suburbs, and L.A. is a suburb. Here, it felt active.” FeelsLongReasonEnoughFeltCitiesFeetNew YorkMovedWarmActiveSuburbsBarren Author:Iggy Pop
“For me, when I got married and when I had my daughter, those are two things that - when it does feel like work - makes me feel like I'm working for my family. I look around and just feel so blessed, because the opportunities that have been laid at my feet are second-to-none.” FeelsLooksDoeHas BeensTwoOpportunityFeetMarriedDaughterMy FamilyBlessedTwo ThingsMy Daughter Author:Cody Johnson
“I've usually never felt comfortable shooting until things were kind of claustrophobic, but ballet dancers need a lot of space, so the sets that I designed had to be big. Normally, I'd design a kitchen that was half the size of a normal kitchen, just to make everything feel kind of womb-like, but the kitchen in a ballet would have to be like 100 feet wide and just as long.” NeedsFeelsKindLongBigsFeltSpaceHalfFeetDesignNormalComfortableSizeWideShootingKitchenDancerBalletWombBallet Dancer Author:Guy Maddin
“In Comme des Garçons, I hardly do any sketches; there's no fittings on bodies, there's no models that come in and say, "Oh, a little bit like this." In the beginning, there isn't even a theme. It's like getting the whole world at your feet - to empty your mind of everything that's ever happened before, to get an empty space.” WorldMindLittlesWholeBodyBitsSpaceHappenedFeetLittle BitModelsEmptyWhole WorldThemeEmpty Space Author:Rei Kawakubo
“Well there's only one way to prepare for playing beach volleyball, and that's by getting in the sand. But offseason is really important because generally I'm staying off the sand and getting my feet under me, and it's really important for my body to know what it feels like to have sound footing under me.” KnowsWayFeelsWellsImportantBodySoundFeetOne WayBeachSandStayingVolleyballOffseasonBeach Volleyball Author:Kerri Walsh
“I was in the ensemble and also covered the parts of Dee Dee and Mary!! I had a fantastic time doing this show especially when we performed in places like Cardiff and Glasgow where the audiences were just so enthusiastic, joining in with all the songs and up on their feet dancing at the end!!” EndsShowsSongAudienceFeetDancingFantasticCoveredMaryEnthusiasticJoiningEnsembleGlasgowCardiffJoining In Author:Francesca Jackson
“I got brilliant stories from people who'd never set foot in an MFA program and had published very little, and terrible stories from people who'd published a lot and had all the credentials. It was all over the map and that was part of the fun.” PeopleLittlesStoriesFunFeetTerribleProgramBrilliantMapsCredentials Author:Ben Fountain
“As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: "Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B."” PeopleWritingSaidEyeFeetCompareDescriptionSurreal Author:Devendra Banhart
“My two young producers, Fernando Perdomo and Chris Price, had to explain to me that there's a division right now between the two sides. They took three living, breathing percussionists to do the beats on the song "Intensity". We've got all kinds of layers, because I kept saying we didn't get all the beats. If you hear a synth, it's because I put my foot down. But I had to fight for it because they wanted it all totally organic.” IfsKindTwoWantedYoungSongFightingThreeSidesFeetRight NowBeatsProducersAll KindsBreathingDivisionIntensityLayersTwo Sides Author:Linda Perhacs
“It is clear to me that the racism was on the other foot, that really, society in Europe was much more racist - vis-Ã -vis Arabs at least and black Africans - than American society.” BlackClearFeetRacismEuropeRacistAmerican Society Author:Michael Scheuer
“The first show I ever saw was Meat Loaf, and it was on the Bat Out of Hell tour. Meat Loaf actually had a huge 20-foot bat behind him. Smoke came out of the bat's nose and his eyes glowed red - which is still one of the most mindblowing productions I've ever seen.” FirstsStillsShowsEyeBehindsHellSawsFeetHugeRedProductionsSmokeNosesMeatHis EyesBats Author:Simon Taylor-Davis
“I hung out with some crazy desert people. One guy was just walking around with only shorts on - he'd been walking with bare feet for the last two years. He was totally scarred and eating on all fours like a dog.” PeopleYearsTwoLastsGuyFeetCrazyDogWalkingEatingDesertTwo YearsHungShortsBare FeetFours Author:Lykke Li
“I thought I had my feet on the ground, but if someone tells you every day you're going to be the next big thing then...So then if you aren't, you think, 'Have I done something wrong?'” IfsThinkingDoneBigsNextFeetBig ThingsFeet On The Ground Author:Gustav Ejstes
“So we can simulate Richter-10 earthquakes. We simulate 70-foot waves coming into these things. Very cool. We basically say no human should ever be required to do anything, because if you judge by Chernobyl and Fukushima, the human element is not on your side.” IfsShouldHumansSidesFeetJudgingElementsWaveEarthquakesYour SideChernobylVery CoolSimulateFukushima Author:Bill Gates
“There's all these people involved, and it becomes this huge machine - it stops being just me making my own little songs for myself, or for the world. And it's hard to stop the machine. If you want to take time to write a record, they're like, "OK, tour through March, April, and June, then you can take a few weeks off to record in July before getting back on the road for the European festival circuit." After a while, I had to put my foot down.” PeopleIfsWorldWantWritingLittlesHardSongMy OwnRecordsWeekFeetHugeInvolvedMachinesMarchTake TimeFestivalsJuneAprilJulyCircuits Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.” ThinkingFeetBrokenOvercomingGood ThingsSeriesBonesHealed Author:Mallory Ortberg
“To me, when you have people trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when stories are the most interesting.” PeopleTryingStoriesInterestingFeetConflictMost Interesting Author:Jason Katims
“Just like you could dump oil into the Cuyahoga in the 60s and let someone else foot the bill, today you can pump CO2 into the atmosphere and let the whole world foot the bill.” WorldWholeTodayFeetLike YouBillsOilWhole WorldAtmosphereDumpPumpsCo2 Author:Ramez Naam
“I don't think every African-American or Latino have the same body type, but, yes, that's been one of the excuses ... saying that African-Americans are too muscular or just aren't lean enough. Usually they say, "Oh, they have flat feet so they just don't have the flexibility that it takes to create the line in a point shoe."” ThinkingEnoughBodyLinesFeetTypeShoesExcuseAfrican AmericanFlatsFlexibilityLatinoBody Types Author:Misty Copeland
“Thank God I am 20 feet tall, so my crying is never mistaken as weak. It can be mistaken as weird, but not weak.” FeetCryWeakTallThank GodMistaken Author:Wendy Williams
“I know a lot of people in Washington would say, well, you know, indigent people can't manage their health savings account. They're too stupid. But they're not too stupid. Somebody has a diabetic foot ulcer, they learn very quickly not to go the emergency room where it costs five times more to take care of it. They go to the clinic.” PeopleKnowsWellsCareRoomsFiveFeetStupidCostAccountsTake CareManageSavingEmergenciesSavingsClinicEmergency RoomUlcersSavings Accounts Author:Benjamin Carson
“I could take an umbrella and balance it on my chin or on my foot. And I just got interested in that kind of thing. And as I played games more and more and got stronger physically, I just became more coordinated.” KindGamesFeetBalanceStrongerChinsUmbrella Author:John Cleese
“In London, I really like going to the Mandarin Oriental. They can even do my feet without tickling me.” FeetLondonTickling Author:Lara Stone
“One of the big things that we wanted to do was trying to kick out a car window as you're driving after it's been shattered obstructing your view. I mean, that's - I can't count how many movies I've seen that in, and we just thought, you know, like, it could be funny if it just kind of goes wrong and this foot just kind of punctures through the window and gets stuck.” IfsKnowsTryingKindMeanI CanBigsWantedViewsFeetCarWindowDrivingStuckKicksBig ThingsShatteredPuncture Author:Seth Rogen
“I remember seeing Extreme play with [Debra] Winger and Cinderella. Gary Cherone was wearing purple velvet overalls with no shirt and saddle oxfords.Afterward, I went home and told my mom, "I need to find saddle oxfords." And she said, "Like little girls wear?" Naturally, I couldn't find them in my size, so I went to a shoemaker and had him make me a pair. I wore them for a while, but they didn't seem as cool on me, because when your foot is size 12, they sort of look like clown shoes.” NeedsLooksLittlesSaidPlayHomeSeemsRememberGirlSeeingFeetMomShoesSizeExtremesMy MomShirtsPairsClownPurpleVelvetOxfordGarySaddlesOveralls Author:Patrick Wilson
“By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why people write a screenplay and make it more like a blueprint, because basically I had written - in "Kill Bill," I had basically written a novel, and basically every day I was adapting my novel to the screen on the fly, you know, on my feet.” PeopleKnowsWritingNovelWrittenSeeingFeetBillsFilledScreensProseScreenplaysBlueprintsAdaptingKill Bill Author:Quentin Tarantino
“If I'm a criminal, and I'm confronted with a 7-foot tall cop and an albino cop, I'm gonna be so lost, I'm spilling my guts.” IfsLostFeetCriminalsGutsTallCopSpilling Author:Joelle Carter
“...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering among their listeners. No, if they really expect us to respect their search for enlightenment and artistic expression, in [the] future they will drag the equipment up the hill by their genitals and take the view with a tripod leg stuck through their foot.” IfsEnoughSufferingCausesViewsFeetExpressionPhotographyEnlightenmentPhotographerPhotographLegsStuckArtisticHillsPoundsDragListenersEquipmentWhiningArtistic ExpressionTripods Author:Bill Jay
“The final goal of world revolution is not socialism, or even communism, it is not a change in the present economic system, it is not the destruction of civilization in a material sense. The revolution desired by the leaders is moral and spiritual, it is an anarchy of ideas in which all the bases established nineteen centuries ago shall be overthrown, all the honored traditions trodden under foot, and, above all, the Christian ideal finally obliterated.” WorldIdeasChristianSpiritualGoalLeaderMoralFeetEconomicCenturyMaterialsRevolutionCivilizationIdealsTraditionDestructionBasesFinalsJewSocialismCommunismAnarchyHonoredEconomic SystemsNineteen Author:Leon V. DePoncins
“God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.” TwoWatchesFeetHonorBlessRaysGod Bless Author:Norah Jones
“When did I turn into a needywhiny angsty idiot who needed to be swept off her feet? She snorted then started running again, forcing me into a brief sprint to catch up. We're conditioned from birth she said. I swear to god,if I ever have a daughter I'll ban all of the Disney princesses from the house. Except Mulan. She kicks ass.” IfsSaidRunningTurnsHouseFeetBirthNeededDaughterAssIdiotKicksPrincessSwearBansKick AssSprintSwear To God Author:Diana Rowland
“The road of truth is broad; set the mind on it, and you feel expansive openness and broad clarity. The road of human desires is narrow; set foot on it, and you see brambles and mire before you.” FeelsMindHumansDesireFeetTruth IsClarityTaoismBroadsOpenness Author:Zicheng Hong
“Attention is the mind's feet; if you do not control your attention strictly, it runs into misleading pathways.” IfsMindRunningAttentionFeetTaoismMisleadPathways Author:Zicheng Hong
“Senator [George] Mitchell is a man of many talents and he's swift on his feet, but one would not think of him as 'dancing with the stars.' And we had this great rock 'n' roll fund raiser.” ThinkingMenStarsFeetRocksTalentDancingFundRock N RollSenatorsDancing With The Stars Author:Barbara Mikulski
“Like I said, as long as I'm consistent and I try to put my best foot forward, and work as hard as I possibly can, everything else will fall into place - God'll take care of everything.” TryingLongSaidHardCareFallFeetTake CareConsistentFall Into Place Author:Joe Budden