“The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.” Has BeensLightEarthThreeLiteratureFeetSoldierBrownHere And ThereBatteriesAdaptingStorageOutfitsRiggedAmerican Soldier Author:Ernie Pyle
“The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.” PhilosophyCertainLiteratureFeetInspireSpringIdealsCloudsFeminineSentimentsFlavorScience Love Book:Table-talk Source: Table-talk
“Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.” MenLiteratureFeetTurds Author:Philip Larkin
“Even though what I enjoy most is literature, I would not want to live only in a world of fiction, cut off from the rest of life. No - I want to always have a foot in the street, to be inmersed in the activities of my contemporaries, in the times, in the place where I live.” WorldWantLiteratureEnjoyFictionCuttingFeetStreetsActivityRest Of Life Author:Mario Vargas Llosa
“The foot of the heavenly ladder, which we have got to mount in order to reach the higher regions, has to be fixed firmly in every-day life, so that everybody may be able to climb up it along with us. When people then find that they have got climbed up higher and higher into a marvelous, magical world, they will feel that that realm, too, belongs to their ordinary, every-day life, and is, merely, the wonderful and most glorious part thereof.” PeopleWorldFeelsMayAbleOrderLiteratureWonderfulFeetHigherOrdinaryFixedRealmsGloriousClimbsHeavenlyRegionsMarvelousLaddersDay Life Author:E. T. A. Hoffmann
“These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.” LittlesBigsLawLiteratureFeetInjusticeCaughtSpidersJustice And InjusticeSpider Web Author:Anacharsis