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“I was tired of an outlaw's life. I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace. It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil. When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms. Have you any idea of what a man must endure who leads such a life? No, you cannot. No one can unless he lives it for himself.”

“In 1978 I decided not to work with Man Ray as an act of self-discipline. I didn't want to rely on him. Man Ray hated not working, though. He would come into my studio, see me drawing or working on photographs, and just slump down at my feet with a big sigh. Fortunately for both of us the year ended. Polaroid had invented a new camera, the twenty-by-twenty-four, and I was invited to Cambridge, Mass., to experiment with it. Naturally, I took Man Ray and we were working again.”

Men Want Years Self Bigs Four Feet Discipline Mass Decided Twenties Cameras Photograph Studios Drawing Experiments Hated Rely Rays Self Discipline Sigh Invited Cambridge Slumps Polaroids

Author:William Wegman

“Creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet [30 m] and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen to twenty yards.”

Made Space Saws Feet Thousand Hundred Twenties Streams Awe Broads Fifteen Yards Verge

Author:David Livingstone

“The population of the United Kingdom has, for the first time, reached sixty million. If they stood on each other's shoulders they would reach perhaps twenty feet in the air before toppling over.”

Ifs Firsts United Millions Air Feet First Time Twenties Population Shoulders Kingdoms Sixty United Kingdom

Author:Eddie Mair

“From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to fleeting life, and I see all about me only death. ... I write this, not quite knowing what I'm saying, but I dry the ink with the dust of Egyptian queens.”

Writing Knowing Feet Century Twenties Dust Queens Dry Sand Buried Contemplating Fleeting Ink Pyramids Egyptian Fleeting Life

Author:Rachel

“Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.”

Eye Water Feet Wall Built Twenties Speed Flying Thirty Wild Eyes

Book:Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

“If a man has a tent made of linen of which the apertures have all been stopped up, and be it twelve bracchia across (over twenty-five feet) and twelve in depth, he will be able to throw himself down from any height without sustaining injury. [His concept of the parachute.]”

Ifs Men Made Able Five Feet Concepts Twenties Depth Height Injury Twelve Twenty Five Tents Sustaining Parachutes Linen Aperture

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“My grandmother's feet had been bound when she was two years old. Her mother...first wound a piece of white cloth about twenty feet long round her feet, bending all the toes except the big toe inward and under the sole. Then she placed a large stone on top to crush the arch.”

Years Firsts Long Two Bigs Mother White Pieces Feet Stones Twenties Bounds Rounds China Wounds Crush Grandmother Two Years Sole Inward Toes My Grandmother Arches Bending Two Year Olds

Author:Jung Chang

“Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high, And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher, Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.”

Ifs World Eye Fire Feet Modern Mines Higher Twenties Pairs What If Heritage Fifteen Fence Patches Stalking Rogues Procession Stilts Patch Up

Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming more common. Wave heights off the coast of England have risen an average of 25 percent over the past couple of decades, which converts to a twenty-foot increase in the highest waves over the next half century. One cause may be the tightening of environmental laws, which has reduced the amount of oil flushed into the oceans by oil tankers.”

“I have over five thousand costumes and props and cars, and I have a twenty-five thousand square foot warehouse full of memorabilia.”

Five Feet Car Thousand Twenties Squares Costumes Twenty Five Props Warehouse Memorabilia

Author:Debbie Reynolds

“After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois the skirt lengths dropped instead of going up as they had during the roaring twenties and I knew that was a very bad sign, and it is symbolic and reflective of a very repressive time, and some of that was laid the feet of the cold war.”

World War Feet College Cold Twenties University War Of The Worlds Length Conformity Cold War Conservatism Symbolic Skirts Roaring Illinois Roaring Twenties

Author:Hugh Hefner

“Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.”

Ifs Kind Guy Feet Twenties Shore Fifteen Rope Drowning

Author:Eugene McCarthy

“My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.”

Men House Space Feet Argument Twenties Infinite Broads

Book:The Canterbury tales

Source: The Canterbury tales

“Like most men, I am consumed with desire whenever a lesbian gets within twenty feet.”

Men Desire Feet Twenties Consumed

Author:Taki Theodoracopulos