“[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
“Stretch of I-95 has already had one brush with disaster. In 2008 two contractors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stopped to get a sausage sandwich, and parked their cars under this bridge. And fortunately they wanted that sausage sandwich because they saw one of these piers with an eight foot gash in it about five inches wide. And oh, they knew automatically that this bridge was in deep trouble.” TwoWantedFiveSawsTroubleFeetCarEightWideDisasterBridgesDepartmentInchesBrushesSandwichesTransportationPennsylvaniaSausageContractorPiers Author:Steve Kroft
“You can't change your attitude because you're the champion. I've always kept my feet on the ground and never wanted to change.” WantedAttitudeFeetChampionMmaCan't ChangeChange Your AttitudeFeet On The Ground Author:Renan Barao
“We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like Judas among the disciples, it was inevitable that it should be included. The Apocalypse is the feet of clay to the grand Christian image. And down crashes the image, on the weakness of these very feet. There is Jesus--but there is also John the Divine. There is Christian love--and there is Christian envy. The former would "save" the world--the latter will never be satisfied till it has destroyed the world. They are two sides of the same medal.” WorldShouldTwoWantedChristianFatherJesusLeftSidesChurchFeetDivineWeaknessEnvyEastSatisfiedDestroyedFormerInevitableLatterCrashDiscipleTestamentApocalypseClayMedalNew TestamentTwo SidesSave The WorldLeft OutChristian LoveJudas Book:Apocalypse Source: Apocalypse
“All I knew about shot putting was that my [older] brother could do 44 feet. I decided I wanted to beat him. . . . So I got a shot and went to work and made up my mind to do 45 feet.” MindMadeWantedFeetBrotherBeatsShotsDecidedMy Brother Author:Bruce Bennett
“Effie M. was a monster. Six foot high and as strong as a farm horse.No sooner had she decided that she wanted UncleTom than she knocked him off his bicycle and told him.” WantedStrongFeetSixDecidedHorseMonstersFarmsBicycle Author:Laurie Lee
“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.” WantPersonsWantedThreeFourFeetSixSuicideCommitSecondsWant MeInchesBotheredYou Want MeFrecklesExtraction Author:Mel Brooks
“I played soccer all my life and I used to think growing up that they put the fat kid in goal or they put the kid that wasn't good with the ball at their feet in goal and I never wanted to do goalkeeper, I was always the goal scorer.” ThinkingKidsWantedUsedGoalGrowing UpGrowingFeetBallsFatsSoccerGoalkeepersFat Kid Author:Hope Solo
“I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, "I wanted my first son to be named Dallas."” ThinkingFirstsI CanWantedFeetSonGrewDadGrew UpSevenThirtyTexasAirportsPortArthurDallasHouston Author:Dallas Roberts
“I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone whos busy and has too many children, like my mother.” WritingChildrenPersonsHomeWantedMotherFatherVoiceHurtFeetUniqueBusyComing HomeBusDonutsDunkin Donuts Author:Sandra Cisneros
“When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before.” YearsDoneMomentsWantedParentClassTroubleSeaFeetAssociationShellsSailingSantaBarbaraSanta BarbaraSea ShellDinghies Author:David Crosby
“Today the Justice Department released e-mails where Walker criticized America. In the e-mails he said he never wanted to set foot in America again. See, that's the good part about hanging somebody. Their feet don't touch the ground.” SaidTodayWantedAmericaJusticeFeetDepartmentMailWalkers Author:Jay Leno
“I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first. Lay a foundation - get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.” WayFirstsIdeasEnoughWould BeWantedCoursesStarsRolesDoorsFeetGrewGrew UpFoundationLaysActressesHandleNo Idea Author:Bette Midler
“The way a dancer can bring the crowd to its feet with a drawn-out, well-executed pirouette is the excitement I wanted to capture with this design.” WayWellsWantedFeetDesignCrowdsExcitementDancerCapturePirouettes Author:Vera Wang
“We mustn't be afraid of inventing anything...Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we're part of nature. If it resembles nature, that's fine. If it doesn't, what of it? When man wanted to invent something as useful as the human foot, he invented the wheel, which he used to transport himself and his burdens. The fact that the wheel doesn't have the slightest resemblance to the human foot is hardly a criticism of it.” IfsMenHumansFactsWantedUsedFeetFineCriticismBurdenWheelsInventingTransportResemblance Author:Francoise Gilot
“I can remember the time when, if we wanted a house or housing, we relied on private enterprise. In fact, Americans built more square feet of housing per person than any other country on the face of the earth. Despite that remarkable accomplishment, more and more people are coming to believe that the only way we can have adequate housing is to use government to take the earnings from some and give these earnings, in the form of housing, to others.” PeopleIfsWayGivingBelievePersonsI CanCountryFactsUseGovernmentWantedEarthRememberFacesFormHouseFeetBuiltDespiteAccomplishmentEnterpriseRemarkableSquaresOther CountriesEarningAdequateHousingPrivate Enterprise Author:Leonard Read
“The interview process tests not what the applicant knows, but how well they can process tricky questions: If you wanted to figure out how many times on average you would have to flip the pages of the Manhattan phone book to find a specific name, how would you approach the problem? If a spider fell to the bottom of a 50-foot well, and each day climbed up 3 feet and slipped back 2, how many days would it take the spider to get out of the well? .” IfsKnowsWellsBookProblemWantedNamesProcessFeetFiguresApproachPagesTestsBottomAveragePhonesInterviewsEach DaySpidersFlipTrickyManhattan Author:Bill Gates
“I'd got married and wanted to have kids, so had kids, brought them up, did other things, and slowly got back into music. And it feels great, having one foot in the present, writing and covering interesting songs, and having one foot in the past.” FeelsWritingKidsWantedPastSongInterestingFeetMarriedCovering Author:Kim Wilde
“Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.” ThinkingWorldTwoRealCountryEyeAgeWantedYoungMy OwnDecisionGrowing UpGrowingFeetTaughtThirdsReal WorldYoung AgeThird WorldKenyaThird World Countries Author:Chris Froome
“I just wanted to do something that would get peoples' attention. And not only that, but get my foot in the door and be creative. I wanted to do something that was empowering to women, as well as get peoples' attention.” WellsWantedAttentionCreativeDoorsFeetEmpoweringBe Creative Author:Jacki-O
“When I found out after that first successful exhibition that the gallery wanted me to do another show like the first one, I come out two years later with four 6-foot drawings of classical nudes masturbating. The gallery director flipped the freak out!” YearsFirstsTwoShowsWantedFoundSuccessfulFourFeetDirectorsDrawingTwo YearsFreakGalleryExhibitionsFlipped Author:Betty Dodson
“I wanted to go in a different direction, artistically. But having somebody like Terry[Crews] in it was your ace in the hole. That makes it very strong, so I definitely had to jump in with both feet.” DifferentWantedStrongFeetHolesVery StrongCrewDifferent DirectionsAces Author:Ice Cube
“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.” IfsKindTwoWantedYoungSongFightingThreeSidesFeetRight NowBeatsProducersAll KindsBreathingDivisionIntensityLayersTwo Sides Author:Linda Perhacs
“One of the big things that we wanted to do was trying to kick out a car window as you're driving after it's been shattered obstructing your view. I mean, that's - I can't count how many movies I've seen that in, and we just thought, you know, like, it could be funny if it just kind of goes wrong and this foot just kind of punctures through the window and gets stuck.” IfsKnowsTryingKindMeanI CanBigsWantedViewsFeetCarWindowDrivingStuckKicksBig ThingsShatteredPuncture Author:Seth Rogen
“My dad really wanted to learn how to sail and, when I was 16, he became a quarter partner in this small, 24-foot trimaran.Three weeks a year, I'd go with him and we'd sail from Florida out around the Bahamas.” YearsWantedThreeWeekFeetDadMy DadPartnersQuartersSailFloridaBahamas Author:Travis Rice
“I have a very close friend who is a brilliant clown, and I always wanted to do a show with him. So I did one year at La MaMa Theatre. I had not done stilts before that show, and I had about two weeks to learn how to do that, and they were just made with off-off Broadway money. The ones that I had in Rogue One were made by [Industrial Light & Magic]. So they were really easy. They were made with actual prosthetic feet on the bottom. They were athletic, in a way. I could run in them. There was a bounce to them that I could use.” WayYearsMadeTwoDoneUseShowsLightRunningWantedEasyMagicWeekFeetBottomTheatreBrilliantBroadwayClownAthleticMamaTwo WeeksBounceClose FriendsRoguesProstheticsStilts Author:Alan Tudyk
“I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.” BigsWantedFantasyGrowing UpRecordsFireGrowingPlayerFeetReturnMountainPicksHorseTownsProvisionDaydreamingCabinsChildhood DreamsLog CabinsRecord Players Author:Linda McCartney
“After 'Freaks and Geeks,' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of 'Dawson's Creek,' and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it's not something I'm insecure about.” FirstsTwoBodyWantedFeetMarkRidiculousProducersFreakEpisodesInsecureGeekCover UpsCreeksMoles Author:Busy Philipps