“I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow, or mossy bank, became a possession to me.” UsedLyingFeetGrewDrawsPossessionGrassSquaresBladesMeadows Author:John Ruskin
“People actually occupy around 3 per cent of the earth's land surface. If 1,200 square feet was given to every person in the world, they would still all fit into an area the size of Texas - whether the Texans would object is an altogether different issue!” PeopleIfsWorldPersonsStillsDifferentEarthGivenIssuesFeetLandObjectsFitAreasSizeSurfaceTexasSquaresCentsTexan Author:Michael Coren
“We got email today from an LGF reader who was browsing the Lexis research system and discovered that anti-American, anti-capitalist icon Noam Chomsky has embarrassingly capitalist tastes; among other expensive property he owns a 36,155 square foot home near Cambridge, a 13,503 square foot vacation home, and four boats. And we won't even mention the cars. Teaching kids to hate their own country seems to pay quite well.” WellsCountryHomeSeemsKidsTodayHatePayFourFeetTeachingCarReaderTasteResearchPropertyBoatExpensiveSquaresVacationCapitalistEmailIconsCambridgeAnti-americanTeaching KidsBrowsing Author:Charles Foster Johnson
“How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less? Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years of effort can extract it. You can't hurry the process. Or pass from arithmetic to algebra; you can't shoulder your way past quadratic equations or ripple through the binomial theorem. Instead, the other way; your feet are impeded in the tangled growth, your pace slackens, you sink and fall somewhere near the binomial theorem with the calculus in sight on the horizon.” PeopleWayYearsPastFallProcessGrowthEffortStruggleFeetSubjectsVictoryRootsSightMathematicsTablesMathShouldersMathematicalHorizonPaceSquaresEquationsRippleArithmeticAlgebraTangledCalculusTheoremsMultiplicationStumpsSquare RootsHardwoodQuadraticsQuadratic Equation Author:Stephen Leacock
“I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces you to duck, to feel small and naive again, ready for anything, dying for love, your body a chimney filled with odd, black smoke. These square, squat, awkward rooms are like a fifty-square-foot paean to teenage-hood, to ripeness, to the first and last taste of youth.” FeelsFirstsBodyLastsHouseForceBlackRoomsHalfFeetDyingLove YouYouthReadyTasteFilledYour BodyTraditionalSmokeOddFiftySquaresDucksAwkwardBedroomTeenageNaiveHoodUpstairsCapesChimneysSmallnessSquatFirsts And LastsCape CodRipeness Author:Gary Shteyngart
“The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving” KnowsDesirePassionThreeFeetWorstFinalsHolesMortalsDestinationCherishStrongestSquaresCravingFinal Destination Author:D.T. Suzuki
“I have over five thousand costumes and props and cars, and I have a twenty-five thousand square foot warehouse full of memorabilia.” FiveFeetCarThousandTwentiesSquaresCostumesTwenty FivePropsWarehouseMemorabilia Author:Debbie Reynolds
“In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's song, Bending the banner-poles. While, all alone, Watching the loophole's spark, Lie I, with life all dark, Feet tethered, hands fettered Fast to the stone, The grim walls, square lettered With prisoned men's groan. Still strain the banner-poles Through the wind's song, Westward the banner rolls Over my wrong.” MenLifeLongStillsHandsLyingSongSoundDarkHalfFeetWindWallStonesPrisonSparksSquaresStrainGrimAll AloneBannerBendingLoopholes Book:Collected Works Source: Collected Works
“How do these celebrities stay so impossibly thin? Simple: They have full-time personal trainers, who advise them on nutrition, give them pep talks, and shoot them with tranquilizer darts whenever they try to crawl, on hunger-weakened limbs, toward the packet of rice cakes that constitutes the entire food supply in their 37,000-square-foot mansions. For most celebrities, the biggest meal of the day is toothpaste (they use reduced-fat Crest).” GivingTryingUseSimpleFeetHungerFatsMealsCakeSquaresNutritionLimbsAdviseRiceTrainersMansionsToothpasteDartsFood SupplyPepPep TalkRice Cakes Author:Dave Barry
“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
“I can remember the time when, if we wanted a house or housing, we relied on private enterprise. In fact, Americans built more square feet of housing per person than any other country on the face of the earth. Despite that remarkable accomplishment, more and more people are coming to believe that the only way we can have adequate housing is to use government to take the earnings from some and give these earnings, in the form of housing, to others.” PeopleIfsWayGivingBelievePersonsI CanCountryFactsUseGovernmentWantedEarthRememberFacesFormHouseFeetBuiltDespiteAccomplishmentEnterpriseRemarkableSquaresOther CountriesEarningAdequateHousingPrivate Enterprise Author:Leonard Read
“I see almost no change in the price of the composite product that flows through Costco I don't feel sorry for the people who pay $27 million for an 8,000-square-foot condo in Manhattan. So inflation comes in places.” PeopleFeelsPayMillionsFeetProductsFlowSorrySquaresInflationManhattanCompositesCostco Author:Charlie Munger
“I sit in the sink (while applying makeup). I do. I've broken more sinks...I sit in the sink, on top of a big square sink in my bathroom with my feet in the basin so I'm very close to the mirror with the good light, and I'm very comfortable. I also manage to put my two phones in the sink so that nothing, but nothing, could get me out of there.” TwoBigsLightFeetBrokenComfortableMirrorsPhonesManageMakeupSquaresBathroom Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.” FeetVersionsDevicesSquaresVacuumsTubesLaptopsWeighing Book:Dave Barry in Cyberspace Source: Dave Barry in Cyberspace
“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
“In New York that probably has more lawyers per square foot than any other state in the union, more women lawyers. I mean, it to me shocking that this can happen in 2008, but fortunately, you had a governor who was sensitive enough to this outrage that he pointed it out to the nation, and is trying to do something about it.” TryingMeanStatesEnoughHappensNationsFeetNew YorkUnionsLawyerSensitiveSquaresGovernorsShockingOutrage Author:Eleanor Smeal
“The law exists for lots of reasons. In the case of migration, the law exists to maintain the integrity of America. We allow immigrants here, happily so. We don't deny legal immigrants a path to citizenship in this country. But beyond that, since we can't take in everybody, since everybody can't come here, it's physically not possible - well, it is. You know you could put the population of the world inside the state of Texas in 1,500-square-feet homes. I mean, you wouldn't want to, but you could do it.” KnowsWorldWantWellsMeanCountryStatesReasonHomeAmericaLawCasesPathFeetIntegrityPopulationDenyImmigrantsTexasSquaresCitizenshipMigration Author:Rush Limbaugh
“To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.” GivingLongTwoKnownFeetAreasPerformancesExcitingBrilliantSquaresBrilliant Ideas Author:Keith Richards
“We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.” BigsHouseFeetLakesSquaresSkisSlopesGnarly Author:Adam Sandler