“It was one to three football fields in length. It was massive, about 300 feet above the ground. It had three lights on the points of its triangle and a large red light beneath.” LightThreeFeetFieldsFootballRedLengthMassiveTrianglesRed LightsFootball Field Author:Steven M. Greer
“all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.” ThinkingTryingUseTimeProcessFeetConsciousLength Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.” ThinkingDifferentCoursesEasyResultsNumbersMistakeFeetTestsWeightNotionComplicatedScalesPairsLengthRulersAbstractionDefining Author:Walter Lippmann
“After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois the skirt lengths dropped instead of going up as they had during the roaring twenties and I knew that was a very bad sign, and it is symbolic and reflective of a very repressive time, and some of that was laid the feet of the cold war.” WorldWarFeetCollegeColdTwentiesUniversityWar Of The WorldsLengthConformityCold WarConservatismSymbolicSkirtsRoaringIllinoisRoaring Twenties Author:Hugh Hefner
“In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.” WorldLongThreeGrowsGrowthNatureFeetMetaphorObviousLakesLengthInchesDeep ThoughtEighteenPonds Book:Invinceable Principles: Essential Tools for Life Mastery Source: Invinceable Principles: Essential Tools for Life Mastery
“When a putter is waiting his turn to hole out a putt of one or two feet in length, on which the match hangs at the last hole, it is of vital importance that he think of nothing. At this supreme moment he ought to fill his mind with vacancy. He must not even allow himself the consolation of religion.” ThinkingMindTwoMomentsLastsTurnsWaitingFeetOughtImportanceGolfSupremeHolesLengthConsolationVacancy Author:Charles Walter Simpson
“If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.” IfsLooksBodyFeetStrangeHeightLengthTerritorySoleHeelsPostureArchesBallerina Author:Christian Louboutin