“In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.” YearsWellsIdeasEnoughTimeResultsPayFiveGreaterFeetSourceInvolvedThousandResourcesYears AgoInvestmentDeeperSurfaceOilOperationsMore TimeTexasNatural Resources Author:Alfred Armand Montapert
“There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.” TryingLongEnjoyFeetInvolvedSightSentencesFoldsCover UpsLaughable Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“Women's scars and rituals involved beauty (piercing ears and noses, binding feet, and wearing corsets); men's involved protecting women. In cultures in which physical strength is still the best way to protect women, as among the Dodos in Uganda, each time a man kills a man, he is awarded a ritual scar; the more scars, the more he is considered eligible.” MenWayStillsCultureFeetInvolvedProtectEarsBest WayNosesRitualScarBindingPiercingsCorsetsUgandaPhysical StrengthProtect Women Author:Warren Farrell
“I am a certified PADI Divemaster and a technical scuba diver. That is to say, I am involved with decompression diving where we dive to depths of 300 plus feet. But I was also recently certified for the Atlantis rebreather, where we dive to shallower depths ranging from about 60-130 feet.” FeetInvolvedDepthPlusRamaDivingAtlantisScubaScuba Divers Author:Frederick Lenz
“I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.” PeopleWorldWellsFeetLandSonInvolvedBraveSoldierSteelConfrontingMy SoldierPashtuns Author:Alexander the Great
“Recycling helps make people feel involved, and in some cases can be useful. Although you've got to do careful life history studies of what you're recycling. If all you're doing is recycling - if you've got three automobiles, and 10 children, and a 7,000-square-foot dot-com palace and second home up in the mountains that has to be heated - the recycling isn't making much difference.” PeopleIfsFeelsChildrenHelpingHomeThreeDifferencesCasesStudyFeetInvolvedMountainCarefulSquaresPalacesAutomobileDotsRecycling Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“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
“I saw [Ronald] Reagan. I've watched Jimmy Carter and his selflessness, getting involved in things like votes in African countries, but also putting his foot right into the whole Israel-Palestine crisis. Sometimes into places where people are going, "Why are you doing that?" .” PeopleCountrySometimesWholeSawsFeetInvolvedVoteCrisisIsraelSelflessnessPalestineJimmyCarter Author:David Mandel
“To be a modern person in 2012, you are often required to have some electronics in your life. And I do. I try to put that phone down, put the computer away, and get out there and hike in the woods; feel it in my feet, feel it in my hands; get out in the garden and feel the soil under my fingers, my fingertips and my fingernails. I try to be involved in nature in a very tactile way. I think that's important.” ThinkingWayFeelsTryingPersonsImportantHandsFeetModernInvolvedComputerGardenFingersPhonesWoodsSoilFingertipsElectronicsFingernailsTactile Author:Ed Begley, Jr.
“Australia is this former British colony at the foot of Asia. We've been involved - we've been in lockstep with America in every battle you have fought for a century. We were there in Vietnam. We were there in Korea. We were there in Iraq. We were there in Afghanistan. We are slightly apprehensive about the rise of China.” AmericaFeetCenturyInvolvedBattleIraqChinaBritishFormerAustraliaAfghanistanVietnamAsiaKoreaColonyRise Of China Author:Richard Glover