“The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair, His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head, His eyes on his dusty old table, with different documents spread.” MindDifferentHandsEyeCareFeetArmsTablesBottomSpreadJournalismSatHis EyesChairsEditorsDocumentsCountenanceElbows Book:Farm Ballads Source: Farm Ballads
“It's true, I do sometimes suspend myself over the canvas, but mostly I work at a table when I'm making a painting. When I use 'The Rig,' my feet are firmly anchored. I lower myself horizontally just long enough to make a brush stroke - a matter of seconds - and then I'm upright again. My assistant then erases the painting quickly with a squeegee and I go for it again... until I get it right. It's like trying to hit a home run.” TryingLongSometimesMatterEnoughUseHomeRunningFeetPaintingTablesSecondsCanvasStrokesBrushesEraseAssistantsHome RunMethodologyRigsBrush Strokes Author:James Nares
“New York is like a big dinner party. You have to be very careful about what you say and do because you never know whose feet are touching under the table.” KnowsBigsPartyFeetNew YorkTablesCarefulDinnerTouchingDinner Party Author:Susanna Moore
“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
“Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.” IfsNeedsShouldBookOrderFeetPaperTablesLegsSteadyIntroduction Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when Im looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.” FeelsWritingViewsCreativeNiceFeetNew YorkBedWindowTablesCoffeeCouchesSkylines Author:Gary Shteyngart
“Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we - because we don't question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted.” LifeGivingSoulScienceLife IsUniverseEnemyTakenAliveFeetTablesGrantedFogTaken For GrantedCanyons Author:Rose Wilder Lane
“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.” WorldLifeInspirationalNeedsStillsWisdomChoicesWaitingRoomsFeetOffersSolitudeQuietSittingTablesMy SoulEcstasyContemplatingSolitaryIntrovertMeditation PracticeYour RoomQuiet LifeBeing QuietSoul LifeSpiritual EyesSolitary LifeUnmaskingQuiet RoomSitting And Waiting Author:Franz Kafka