“It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.” HappensWould BeUsedBehindsFeetParticularTownsChinaScreensVillageContestsCurtainsBeauty Contest Author:Lisa See
“Everyone is psychic. Being psychic is not a particular talent. Everybody has a left foot. Some people may just walk with that foot, some people may drag it, and some may learn to dance with it.” PeopleMayLeftWalksSeeingFeetTalentParticularDragPsychics Author:Frederick Lenz
“At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.” IfsMenFeelsHas BeensIdeasDoneMomentsWaitingSleepFeetMiddleStupidParticularThousandTenNotionBagsPrizeThat MomentReceivingFulfillingHighwaysNobelFreezeNobel PrizeSnowstorms Book:Blue Highways: A Journey Into America Source: Blue Highways: A Journey Into America
“I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about thirty feet on the wall and the movements keep returning to me and the eye seems to be responding to something living, then it is finished.” IfsSeemsEyeFeetMovementParticularPaintingWallFinishedSpotsThirtyCanvasResponding Author:William Baziotes
“The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary.” WantLooksWholeRoomsClassFeetParticularLowsMalesVery GoodMannersGood ManShellsShockedBeamScottishReactionariesGood MannersBangingUpper ClassMale Chauvinist Author:Jilly Cooper
“The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.” MenShouldSpiritLibertyRightsImagineFeetParticularLowsMultitudesWronged Book:The Works of William Ellery Channing Source: The Works of William Ellery Channing
“Many of these failures can be laid at the feet of the awful state of American higher education, and especially the way in which our secular universities have divorced their instruction from timeless truths like faith and freedom. Many of the professors at these places plainly don't respect the founders and, in particular, the religious foundation of the founders.” WayStatesReligiousFeetParticularHigherFoundationUniversityAwfulProfessorsInstructionFoundersSecularTimelessDivorcedHigher Education Author:Paul Kengor
“You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people. Therefore join the movement as individuals against anti-Semitism, join the movements for the rights of Hispanics, the rights of women, the rights of gays. In other words, I think that each movement has to stand on its own feet because it has a particular agenda, but it can ask other people.” PeopleThinkingAsksIndividualRightsFeetMovementParticularGayAgendasAnti Semitism Author:Bayard Rustin
“You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.” KindLittlesSpiritualLawSongFeetIgnoranceParticularIllnessMental IllnessAggressiveRabbitsSlice Of Life Author:Joni Mitchell