“[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about it. Only time will tell. For example...] The Talmud relates a story about two people who wanted to travel by boat. One broke his foot and was unable to make the trip, while his friend got on the boat. The one who missed the boat cursed his misfortune. A few days later, however, he heard that the boat sank and all the passengers drowned.” PeopleKnowsShouldTwoHardStoriesWantedHeardFeetExampleLuckBoatBrokeRelateMisfortunesAnticipationOnly TimeGood LuckCursedPassengersTime Will TellOnly Time Will Tell Author:Zelig Pliskin
“You don't let a guy put his hand on your chest, and put his foot on the ball and look into your eyes and tell you a bedtime story. No. sorry. He controlled the ball on his chest, step on it, look, see if someone was in the stands, take a coffee, turn, call his family, no one was answering, left a message, and then thought "Oh, I might cross the ball." He crossed it and they scored.” IfsLooksStoriesHandsMightEyeGuyTurnsLeftStepsFeetMessagesCrossesBallsSorryCoffeeControlledChestsBedtimeBedtime Stories Author:Thierry Henry
“On the plane, an eight-year-old with an excess of testosterone keeps running across my feet. Finally I grab him by his T-shirt and say, very sweetly, 'Listen, darling, if you don't stop trampling me I'm going to make you sit on my lap while I tell you my entire life story. Including a lot of details about drug rehab and my divorce.' He goes back to his seat.” IfsYearsStoriesRunningFeetDrugIncludingDetailsEightDivorceFlyingPlanesShirtsSeatsExcessT ShirtLapDarlingLife StoryRehabTestosteroneKeep RunningVery Sweet Author:Rosanne Cash
“When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Even if she had to rage across all China, a swordswoman got even with anybody who hurt her family. Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound.” IfsStoriesGirlHurtWifeFeetDangerousGrewGrew UpAdultsIndependenceSlaveBoundsChinaRageChineseHeroines Book:The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
“A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth. A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet.” StoriesEarthJourneyFeetFrontsThousandBuiltMilesNineTowersThousand MilesJourney Of A Thousand Miles Author:Laozi
“If you're going to be a healer, it's not enough to read books and learn allegorical stories. you need to get your feet wet, get some clinical experience under your belt.” IfsNeedsBookEnoughStoriesFeetWetBeltsHealerClinicals Author:Andrew Schneider
“You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet.” ThinkingImportantStoriesDiesPayAttentionOpinionFeetImportant Things Author:Ray Bradbury
“I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict. I don't really enjoy acting enough to not want to experience something that feels like it really affects things. It's like, if you were a surfer, would you want to surf where there was like two-foot waves, or would you want to surf on like ten-foot waves. To me, the more kind of dramatic stories are more exciting for me, to play with.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsKindPersonsTwoEnoughPlayStoriesEnjoyActingFeetTenConflictExcitingWaveDramaticSurfSingle PersonSurfer Author:Joaquin Phoenix
“If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need to learn about craft so that the next time you pick up a contemporary short story, you're reading it not as an abstraction floating in formaldehyde, existing simply for the theorist's dull scalpel to saw on, but as a concrete thing constructed out of words and shaped by syntax, brought to life by a writer who made several thousand choices, some large, some small, before letting that imperfect beauty, the story, walk on its own two feet.” IfsWantNeedsWritingMadeTwoStoriesChoicesReadingNextWalksFictionSawsFeetThousandPicksContemporaryCraftsDullShort StoryImperfectConcreteNext TimeFloatingAbstractionFiction WritersTheoristsSyntaxScalpels Author:John McNally
“Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories.” ThinkingImportantWarStoriesTeachFeetSoldierWar Stories Book:If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home Source: If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
“"Suffragette" is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fight for the right to vote.” StoriesFightingFeetMovementDramaVoteSoldierTrackFeministIntenseRight To VoteFeminist MovementSuffragettes Author:Sarah Gavron
“I would hope with all my heart that people understand this and see it in the film. And there are also other messages in Happy Feet, like racial and environmental ones, but none of them are so overt. George has made a great story about penguins with a lot of humanity in it and audiences can follow a species we don't know that well.” PeopleKnowsWellsHeartMadeStoriesFilmHumanityAudienceFeetMy HeartMessagesSpeciesEnvironmentalPenguinsHappy Feet Author:Brittany Murphy
“One of the metaphors of the book is the carpet. Not just the flying carpet, but the carpet as a woven surface in which many repetitions and motifs recur and mirror one another. This is very much reflected within the stories: they have borders within borders, repeated motifs which change. They have their feet in oral conventions, and for the mnemonics, the storyteller needs to have a structure in order to remember the stories.” NeedsBookStoriesRememberOrderFeetMirrorsStructureMetaphorSurfaceFlyingBordersConventionsRepetitionStorytellerCarpetWovenMotifs Author:Marina Warner
“I just feel much more secure about whatever I write if I stand with one foot in reality - meaning if the stories I write about have a core of "this actually (could have) happened."” IfsFeelsWritingStoriesRealityHappenedFeetCoreSecure Author:Sasa Stanisic
“I got brilliant stories from people who'd never set foot in an MFA program and had published very little, and terrible stories from people who'd published a lot and had all the credentials. It was all over the map and that was part of the fun.” PeopleLittlesStoriesFunFeetTerribleProgramBrilliantMapsCredentials Author:Ben Fountain
“To me, when you have people trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when stories are the most interesting.” PeopleTryingStoriesInterestingFeetConflictMost Interesting Author:Jason Katims
“The first couple of weeks of filming were quite tricky for me to find my feet with the character [Maigret], which wasn't helped by the story that we were telling.” FirstsCharacterStoriesWeekFeetCoupleTricky Author:Rowan Atkinson
“Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a huge character, not only standing six feet four, but when you talked to him, he violated the normal human space between people. He was a great storyteller. The problem was that half his stories, I discovered, weren't true.” PeopleThinkingHumansStillsCharacterStoriesProblemIndividualSpaceHalfKnownFourFeetHugeNormalSixStandingFascinatingStorytellerFrustratingJohnsonFormidableIrritatingSpace Between Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin