“Two days ago we waded through the mud out to this grave beneath the pines at the foot of the hill to place a Christmas wreath on it, hoping he would look down from the Paradise of Ten Billion Trees and Unrationable Dog Biscuits and pity us.” LooksTwoTreeFeetDogTenBillionsGravesPityHillsParadiseMudTwo DaysBiscuitsWreaths Author:Eugene O'Neill
“Roll rocks down a ten-thousand-foot mountain, and they cannot be stopped - this is because of the mountain, not the rocks. Get people to fight with the courage to win every time, and the strong and the weak unite - this is because of the momentum, not the individuals.” PeopleFightingWinningIndividualStrongFeetRocksThousandTenMountainWeakMomentum Author:Du Mu
“Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.” KnowsWorldWayLittlesLongTwoRealizingCommunitySecretFeetWalkingTenLimitsFellowsDistanceMilesScalesEnormousFiftyConceptionLong WayHikerSmall CommunitiesWalk In The WoodsWalks In The Woods Author:Bill Bryson
“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'd have to say Thierry Henry. From the ages of ten to 16, watching him in the Premier League was amazing and he scored all different types of goals - free-kicks, volleys, left foot, right foot. He was entertaining. He's probably the best centre-forward, I think, to play in the Premier League.” ThinkingDifferentPlayAgeLeftGoalFeetTypeTenLeagueKicksEntertainingCentrePremier LeagueVolley Author:Wayne Rooney
“after several months of probation work, standing on my feet some ten to twelve hours a day, I decided that as a nurse I was a pretty good entertainer.” HoursWorkFeetMonthsTenStandingDecidedNurseTwelveEntertainersProbation Author:Kate Smith
“When you feel that you are at the end of your path and there is a ten foot high brick wall right there in front of you, and you have nowhere to go but backwards, break down that wall and move forward. There are great and wonderful things on the other side of that wall... and, they have always been there. Let nothing divide you from what you need to do in life, and see the solutions that are right in front of you. The key is, you must break down what separates you from them and choose to find them.” NeedsFeelsEndsMotivationalMovingSidesBreakPathWonderfulFeetFrontsWallKeysTenSolutionsMoving ForwardDividesBackwardsBreaking DownWonderful ThingsBricksBrick WallNowhere To Go Author:Rich Barnes
“When there's not ten feet of snow on the ground I ride my bike down the streets of New York, and I literally hear two things out of car windows as cabs pass by me: They either yell, "Hey, dummy," or "Hey, Mayhem."” TwoFeetStreetsCarNew YorkTenWindowSnowHeyTwo ThingsBikeCabMayhemDummy Author:Dean Winters
“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
“Cooking gives you the ability to grow as a person and to give yourself confidence. You can invite people around, you can sit down and eat together and it makes you feel about ten feet tall because you've done it with your own hands.” PeopleGivingFeelsPersonsDoneHandsTogetherGrowsAbilityFeetTenDown AndCookingSelf ConfidenceTallInvites Author:William Katt
“Nothing is ever solved, or created, by standing still. Movement is the process of the Universe. So move. Do something. Anything. But do not stand still. Do not fence sit. Put your foot down on one side or the other, swing the opposite leg over and start walking. You'll know before you take ten steps if you're going in the right direction.” IfsKnowsStillsMovingUniverseProcessSidesInspiringStepsFeetMovementWalkingTenStandingOppositesLegsSwingsFenceRight DirectionStanding Still Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.” IfsMindMayValuesFreedomLibertyTeacherFeetTeachingDogTenPursuitChainsPursuit Of KnowledgeBarking Dogs Author:Adlai Stevenson I
“For some people, 'ten feet tall' is just a metaphor. For me, it's more than twice my height!” PeopleFeetTenMetaphorHeightTall Author:Ruth Westheimer
“A ten-foot keeper really should have stopped that.” ShouldFeetTenShould HaveEnglandKeepers Author:Ron Atkinson
“Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.” BigsOpportunitySecretFeetTenShoesSize Author:Freida Pinto
“I will definitely start in small venues, as I want to find my feet as a performer; the first shows that Westlife did was ten dates at Wembley, which was just crazy. We didn't have a clue what we were doing because it was so big.” WantFirstsShowsBigsFeetCrazyTenPerformersClueVenuesWestlife Author:Shane Filan
“Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly. The first record I ever owned was a 78 rpm of "Hound Dog" backed by "Don't Be Cruel" and when I listened to those tunes I felt about ten feet tall and I grinned so hard that I felt like the corners of my mouth would meet in the back and the tip of my head would simply topple off. All I know about Rock and Roll is that it makes people feel good. Elvis Presley more than made me feel good, he enriched my life and made it better.” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsFirstsMadeHardFeltMillionsRecordsFeetRocksTalentDogTenMouthsCornersFeel GoodMade ItTunesTallHorizonRock And RollHoundsHound Dogs Author:Stephen King
“Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary.” YearsLittlesBitsFiveFeetTenLittle BitScaryFourteen Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“The thought was, 'We're going to go to California, where the soil is black and ten feet deep, and there are no rocks, and there's gold in the hills.' The West becomes the surface onto which people project their fantasies, where once the future had been the place they projected their fantasies. So it's not just the war that ends the utopian communities, but what follows.” PeopleWarEndsBlackCommunityFantasyFeetRocksTenProjectsGoldWestSurfaceHillsCaliforniaSoilUtopian Author:Christine Jennings
“When you're in the middle of nowhere, when you're on this tiny little island, probably one of ten people ever to step foot on this island, it's taken you a week to get there by boat - and you step near to an albatross nest. It doesn't even look at you as the enemy. You get this great nature moment. Until you realize the albatross, along with the thousands of other winged albatrosses next to it, has constructed its nest of trash.” PeopleLooksLittlesMomentsNextRealizingStepsEnemyTakenWeekFeetMiddleTenTinyBoatIslandsTrashNestsMiddle Of NowhereAlbatross Author:Jeff Corwin
“If you're only ten feet above, then you're better than when you're on the ground.” IfsFeetTen Author:Robert Greene
“For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.” YearsHandsPiecesFeetTenIronStringsFunny Leadership Author:Spike Milligan
“I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.” KnowsWayKindLittlesPlayBitsAnimalImagineFeetBearsTenLittle BitStandingFascinatingTallHoneyElevenStanding AloneGrizzliesGrizzly Bears Author:Leslie Nielsen