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“Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.”

Years Firsts Said Enough Guy Three Comedy Week Feet Shots Yeah Making Money Ran Gates Three Years Had Enough Misled

Author:Al Franken

“Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van, two desks, two chairs, a telephone, and an old typewriter. Then there was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe – the only lady private detective in Botswana – brewed redbush tea. And three mugs – one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance. No inventory would ever include those, of course.”

Source: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“If you're more than three feet away from a housefly, it can't see you.”

Ifs Three Feet Information

Author:L. M. Boyd

“I'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.”

Three Feet Birth Six Eleven My Birthday

Author:Darryl Dawkins

“The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.”

Has Beens Light Earth Three Literature Feet Soldier Brown Here And There Batteries Adapting Storage Outfits Rigged American Soldier

Author:Ernie Pyle

“I didn't hit one three-pointer in college, and a couple of those were right on the college three line. I didn't feel comfortable much outside of 12 to 15 feet. Now, I really feel comfortable from the wing and the corner area out to 18, 19 feet. I'm going to keep working and continue to improve it.”

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Author:David Lee

“Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.”

Source: Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners

“I'm giving a lot of opinions, but I don't give any advice. I'm 31 and I'm not married and having kids. I'm five-foot-three. I weigh, like, 150 pounds and I'm not in this position to be telling people how to live.”

People Giving Kids Three Opinion Five Feet Advice Position Married Pounds Having Kids

Author:Mindy Kaling

“The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.”

Ifs Knows Men Two Earth Artist Three Behinds Knowing Feet He Man Creatures Dancing Inspired Leaving Surface Tales Print

Book:Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies

“The great thing about having been poor is how liberated it makes you if you eventually become rich. There's nothing like the knowledge that you don't need money to survive. That the money cushion you lie on every night doesn't have to be three feet thick, and you can still get to sleep.”

Ifs Needs Stills Lying Night Three Wealth Sleep Poor Rich Feet Great Things Thick Every Night Liberated Cushions Become Rich Need Money

Author:Bill Maher

“That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.”

Made Hands Three Effort Audience Four Feet Serious Intellectual Rhythm

Author:Eduard Hanslick

“The first thing I did when I was forty years old, I put handcuffs on and I jumped off Alcatraz prison and swam to San Francisco handcuffed. That made national publicity. Then, there were three or four years where I would do more difficult feats. Another birthday I towed a thousand pound boat across the Golden Gate. On my 65th Birthday I towed 65 boats a mile and a half in Tokyo. On my 70th Birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it with my feet and hands tied a mile and a half in Long Beach.... My next Birthday I will be 93. I'm gonna tow my wife across the bathtub.”

“It was one to three football fields in length. It was massive, about 300 feet above the ground. It had three lights on the points of its triangle and a large red light beneath.”

Light Three Feet Fields Football Red Length Massive Triangles Red Lights Football Field

Author:Steven M. Greer

“But, no, I don't feel my career has not been fulfilled because I didn't win the US Open. It's like the guy said: You going to crucify a man because he missed a putt to win a tournament? Does a three-foot putt mean his whole life? Another guy said, well, he couldn't win the big one. Well, Jesus, what do you call those others? What's big and what's small?”

Men Feels Wells Mean Doe Said Whole Bigs Guy Three Jesus Winning Careers Feet Golf Whole Life Fulfilled Tournaments Other Guys

Author:Sam Snead

“Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured.”

People Wells Hands Funny Three Feet Bigger Bob Three Times

Author:Brad Bird

“A young girl is possessed by a devil, and Constantine shouts, 'I need a mirror! Now! At least three feet high!' He can capture the demon in the mirror and throw it out the window, see, although you wonder why supernatural beings would have such low-tech security holes.”

Needs Young Girl Three Wonder Feet Security Lows Devil Window Mirrors Holes Demon Capture Possessed Constantine Kryptonite Supernatural Beings

Book:Your Movie Sucks

Source: Your Movie Sucks

“You want me to admit I'm a four-foot, six-inch freckle-faced person of Jewish extraction? I admit it. All but the extraction. But being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.”

Want Persons Wanted Three Four Feet Six Suicide Commit Seconds Want Me Inches Bothered You Want Me Freckles Extraction

Author:Mel Brooks

“My poor, problematic feet don't let me wear anything much over a three- or four-inch heel.”

Three Poor Four Feet Let Me Inches Heels

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“My life is quite physical anyway. When you are three-foot-six you kind of have to climb stuff now and again, and you find yourself in quite precarious situations just to manage in what is quite a big world.”

World Kind Bigs Life Is Three Stuff Situation Feet Six Manage Climbs Finding Yourself Precarious

Author:Warwick Davis

“Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You’re three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.”

People Kids Moving Three Pay Attention Feet Childhood Picks Terror Broke Awake Flats Tall Snaps Unemployed Illiterate

Author:Mary Karr

“Six feet three in her stocking feet, LWren Scott was every inch a great lady.”

Three Feet Six Inches Stockings

Author:Hamish Bowles

“I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet.”

Writing Running Three Sleep Space Feet Dog Blast Underwear Three Dog

Author:Jonathan Evison

“At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed, disembowelled, mangled; their dead bodies rot and their eyes decay with the rest. Screams of pain and fear go pulsing through the air at the rate of eleven hundred feet per second. After travelling for three seconds they are perfectly inaudible. These are distressing facts; but do we enjoy life any the less because of them? Most certainly we do not.”

“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”

Knows Desire Passion Three Feet Worst Finals Holes Mortals Destination Cherish Strongest Squares Craving Final Destination

Author:D.T. Suzuki

“So when I open the door on Halloween, I am confronted by three or four imaginary heroes, such as G.I. Joe, Conan the Barbarian and Oliver North, who would look very terrifying except that they are three feet tall and facing in random directions. They stand there silently for several seconds before an adult voice hisses from the darkness behind them: "Say 'Trick or treat!”

Looks Three Voice Behinds Darkness Four Doors Feet Hero Adults Treats Tricks Tall Seconds Imaginary Halloween Barbarians Conan Trick Or Treat

Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“I felt puny and absurd, a ludicrous midget. Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and existential worth, but not when you're three feet tall.”

Soul Enough Spirit Three Felt Easy Feet Essentials Absurd Tall Midget

Author:Richard Matheson

“It's hard for me to be serious. I can't really rub oil on me and go all the way with it [laughs]. I hear some screams and I laugh to myself. I always get a kick out of it. I'm three feet tall, basically.”

Way I Can Hard Three Laughing Feet Serious Oil Kicks Tall Scream

Author:Janelle Monae

“Leveling off at 42,000 feet, I had thirty percent of my fuel, so I turned on rocket chamber three and immediately reached .96 Mach. I noticed that the faster I got, the smoother the ride. Suddenly the Mach needle began to fluctuate. It went up to .965 Mach - then tipped right off the scale ... We were flying supersonic. And it was a smooth as a baby's bottom; Grandma could be sitting up there sipping lemonade.”

Three Feet Baby Percent Sitting Bottom Flying Scales Flight Faster Thirty Fuel Aviation Smooth Chamber Rockets Needles Grandma Lemonade Sipping Sitting Up

Book:Yeager: An Autobiography

Source: Yeager: An Autobiography

“My first memories are from when I was very little, maybe three or four years old playing in my neighbourhood at home. I can picture myself with the ball at my feet from a very young age.”

Years Firsts Littles I Can Home Age Young Three Memories Four Feet Balls Four Years Young Age Neighbourhoods

Author:Lionel Messi

“A miniature village in Bournemouth caught fire and the flames could be seen nearly three feet away.”

Humor Funny Three Fire Feet Caught Flames Village Miniatures

Author:Bob Monkhouse

“I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.”

Hands Three Left Feet Hundred Left Hand

Book:Writings and Drawings

Source: Writings and Drawings

“I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a commonwealth. In this little state I can discover all the great geniuses, all the surprising actions and revolutions of the great world in miniature. I have several renowned generals but three feet high, and several deep-projecting politicians in petticoats. I have others catching and dissecting flies, accumulating remarkable pebbles, cockleshells, etc., with as ardent curiosity as any virtuoso in the Royal Society.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“What comforted me? That is easy. It was a strong cold chicken jelly so very, very thick. My mother's Chinese cook would fix it. He would cook it down, condense it-this broth with all sorts of feet in it, then it would gell into sheer bliss. It kept me alive once for three weeks when I was ill as a child. And I've always craved it since.”

Children Mother Three Strong Easy Alive Week Feet Food Cold Cooking Ill Chinese Cooks Bliss Culinary Chickens Thick Sheer Jelly

Author:James Beard

“I'm just short for my weight. By rights I should measure eight foot three.”

Should Three Rights Feet Weight Eight

Author:Sue Margolis

“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.”

People Ifs Feels Children Helping Home Three Differences Cases Study Feet Involved Mountain Careful Squares Palaces Automobile Dots Recycling

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.”

World Long Three Grows Growth Nature Feet Metaphor Obvious Lakes Length Inches Deep Thought Eighteen Ponds

Book:Invinceable Principles: Essential Tools for Life Mastery

Source: Invinceable Principles: Essential Tools for Life Mastery

“From the time I was three and a half... as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons.”

Three Given My Own Half Feet Lessons

Author:Rita Hayworth

“The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp, low reef extending two or three hundred feet beneath the sea is formed. If a vessel should run on one of these reefs half her bottom might be torn away.”

Ifs Should Two Sometimes Bigs Might Running Three Water Half Sea Feet Lows Hundred Bottom Surface Torn Vessel Extending Reefs Iceberg

Author:Edward Smith

“I'm grew up a huge fan of The Three Stooges and Monty Python, so somebody getting slapped in the face with a fish, or falling out of a chair, or running into a door, or tripping over their own feet and eating it, is all stuff I find really, really funny.”

Running Faces Fall Three Stuff Doors Feet Fans Huge Grew Eating Grew Up Fishes Chairs Python Tripping Monty Stooges Three Stooges Tripping Over

Author:Thomas Sadoski

“This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.”

Ifs World Firsts Helping Home Lying Three Feet Arms Proud England Corners Wounds Shock Coming Home Conqueror Rue Corners Of The World

Author:William Shakespeare

“There's a different kind of comfort that comes from knowing that you are putting your best foot forward. It's called psychological comfort. Look at a picture of the Coney Island boardwalk in 1925. Men were in full-on three-piece suits, hats. They may have only had one suit. But they pressed it. They made it look as good as possible.”

Men Looks Kind May Made Different Three Knowing Pieces Feet Comfort Psychological Suits Made It Islands Hats Different Kinds Boardwalks Coney Island

Author:Tom Ford

“I remember the 'Checkered Demon'. He's this little devil with this three-foot dong that just porks everybody. And that wa s my idea of what sex was about. And I was, "Oh, wow! I can't wait.”

Littles I Can Ideas Remember Three Sex Waiting Feet Devil Demon Wow Pork Checkered

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“The famous statue of Christ the Redeemer that overlooks Rio de Janeiro is only 130 feet tall. McGuinty's eco-idols [Wind Turbines] will be three times that height, but will serve the same imposing purpose.”

Purpose Three Christ Feet Wind Height Tall Idols Three Times Statues Imposing Redeemer Eco Rio Turbines Wind Turbines Rio De Janeiro

Author:Ezra Levant

“A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.”

Men May Matter Night Three Next Vision Feet Mountain Horizon Glimpse

Book:Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963

Source: Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963

“Three and a half million years ago our ancestors - yours and mine - left these traces [indicates footprints]. We stood up and parted ways from them. Once we were standing on two feet, our eyes were no longer fixated on the ground. Now, we were free to look up and wonder.”

Way Years Looks Two Eye Three Left Half Wonder Millions Feet Mines Years Ago Standing Look Up Ancestor Footprint Stood Up

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“You can imagine what the advisers are telling Junior Assad: "Your statues are much stronger than Saddam's. His were hollow, and bolted in place with inferior metal; yours are solid, and are anchored to a depth of three feet. Let the American tanks come! Their gears will strip and their engines whine in defeat as they attempt to pull down your statues!”

Three Imagine Feet Stronger Depth Defeat Engines Metals Inferiors Saddam Statues Hollow Tanks Juniors Gears Adviser Assad

Author:James Lileks

“One thing with Montreal is it's so cold and everyone's so poor and beer's so cheap: if you go to a show you have to brave the weather to get there. So you show up and everyone's soaking wet - there's a sense of 'I trekked through three feet of snow to get here!' I think there's a kind of camaraderie that arises out of that, that's important to me as well.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Kind Important Shows Three Poor One Thing Feet Cold Brave Arise Snow Weather Beer Wet Camaraderie Montreal Soaking

Author:Grimes

“That is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life, running through the jungle in heels. Because also, mud was often times three feet deep, and that was full on for sure.”

Running Three Feet Hardest Heels Mud Hardest Thing Jungle

Author:Bryce Dallas Howard

“It's hard to do a camera inside of a car. Non-Stop would have been impossible. Usually modern lenses you can focus up to the lens pretty much, but anamorphic you can't. You need like three feet.”

Needs Has Beens Hard Three Focus Impossible Feet Modern Car Cameras Lenses Non Stop

Author:Jaume Collet-Serra

“My two young producers, Fernando Perdomo and Chris Price, had to explain to me that there's a division right now between the two sides. They took three living, breathing percussionists to do the beats on the song "Intensity". We've got all kinds of layers, because I kept saying we didn't get all the beats. If you hear a synth, it's because I put my foot down. But I had to fight for it because they wanted it all totally organic.”

Ifs Kind Two Wanted Young Song Fighting Three Sides Feet Right Now Beats Producers All Kinds Breathing Division Intensity Layers Two Sides

Author:Linda Perhacs

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