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“There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.”

Years Play Bigs Kids School Young Four Feet Periods Six High School Adults Yeah Lawyer

Author:Jason Segel

“When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet neither is the ultimate solution, simply because floods are caused by the flow of water downhill. If the hills are wooded, that flow is checked. If there is a swamp at the foot of the hills, the swamp sponges up most of the excess water, restores some of it to the underground water supply and feeds the remainder slowly into the streams. Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.”

“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

“There is a gesture he has, a motion, that always reminds me of a great batter leaning into a hit. He has a way of throwing one foot forward, putting his head down a bit as he silently runs the valves, and then the cheeks bloom out in the way that has mystified his dentist for years, and he hits into the solo. When that foot goes forward like that, you know that John Birks Gillespie is no longer clowning. Stand back.”

Knows Way Years Running Bits Feet Throwing Gestures Cheeks Solo Dentist Valve Clowning

Author:Gene Lees

“Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot, not to think of your ear or one of your eyes or elbow, also familiar to you in the context of the whole, but utterly anonymous when taken piece by piece. We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.”

Ifs Thinking Years Whole Body Eye Taken Pieces Feet Ears Photograph Your Body Familiar Aliens Who We Are Isolated Think Of You Elbows

Author:Paul Auster

“I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.”

Years Feet Eating Bars Chocolate Crow Wrinkles Eating Chocolate Love Chocolates Hershey

Author:Amy Neftzger

“I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet to live better in five years than we do today.”

Ifs Knows Years Today Able Five Feet France Five Years

Author:Francois Hollande

“Tim Duncan's foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year's playoffs. That's not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.”

Thinking Years Kind Issues Feet Basketball Majors Majority Factors Get Better Injury Nba Playoffs Duncan

Author:Bill Walton

“Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed 218 pounds with eight percent body fat, and threw the discus over 190 feet. Then I got some advice from the people at the Olympic Training Center. I needed carbs, they advised, and lots of them. They pointed to studies done on the American distance runners. Being an idiot, I took the advice to eat like emaciated, over-trained sub-performers. It took years of high carbohydrate grazing to learn the evils of this advice.”

“Then they show up at the door and the reality is that they are 5-foot-8, 240 pounds and have not run a mile in years. A background check is not going to help you with that.”

Years Helping Shows Reality Running Doors Feet Miles Backgrounds Checks Pounds Background Checks

Author:Charlene Li

“In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.”

Years Wells Ideas Enough Time Results Pay Five Greater Feet Source Involved Thousand Resources Years Ago Investment Deeper Surface Oil Operations More Time Texas Natural Resources

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“I could not prove the Years had feet-/Yet confident they run.”

Years Running Feet Prove

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“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

“Since we are what we are, what shall we be But what we are? We are, we have Six feet and seventy years, to see The light , and then resign it for the grave .”

Years Light Feet Six Graves Seventies

Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

“I remember really vividly kneeling by my bed as a nine-year-old, saying my prayers and asking God to give me boobs that were so big that if I laid on my back I wouldn't be able to see my feet.”

Ifs Giving Years Bigs Able Remember Prayer Feet Bed Give Me Asking Nine Nine Years Old Saying Kneeling Asking God

Author:Katy Perry

“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.”

“I thought I was going to die a few times. On the Freedom Ride in the year 1961, when I was beaten at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, I thought I was going to die. On March 7th, 1965, when I was hit in the head with a night stick by a State Trooper at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought I was going to die. I thought I saw death, but nothing can make me question the philosophy of nonviolence.”

Years States Philosophy Night Dies Saws Feet Sticks Bridges March Stations Bus Nonviolence Beaten Montgomery Greyhounds Greyhound Bus

Author:John Lewis

“The rise of the Earth's temperature, causing sea level increases that could add up to one foot over the next 30 years, threatens the very existence of New Orleans.”

Years Earth Next Levels Existence Sea Feet Increase Add New Orleans Temperature

Author:Ray Nagin

“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.”

“In a few short years you might have to become a scuba diver and go hundreds of feet underwater - It will be the last refuge of pure aura and power on our planet, the oceans' depths.”

Years Might Lasts Feet Planets Buddhism Pure Ocean Depth Refuge Our Planet Auras Underwater Scuba Scuba Divers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores. Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]”

Years Age Feet Labor Silent Endure Old Age Permit Tolerate Bent Jam

Author:Ovid

“Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.”

Years Age Feet Silent Permit Crooked

Author:Ovid

“On the plane, an eight-year-old with an excess of testosterone keeps running across my feet. Finally I grab him by his T-shirt and say, very sweetly, 'Listen, darling, if you don't stop trampling me I'm going to make you sit on my lap while I tell you my entire life story. Including a lot of details about drug rehab and my divorce.' He goes back to his seat.”

Ifs Years Stories Running Feet Drug Including Details Eight Divorce Flying Planes Shirts Seats Excess T Shirt Lap Darling Life Story Rehab Testosterone Keep Running Very Sweet

Author:Rosanne Cash

“I remember when I first moved to L.A. from Michigan when I was 11 years old and I walked down the Walk of Fame and looked at the hand and foot prints of the stars and it was the coolest thing. And I never thought that mine would actually be there one day, so when it happened it was so surreal and such an honor”

Years Firsts Hands Remember Stars Walks Happened Feet Mines Honor One Day Fame Moved Print Remember When Surreal Michigan Hands And Feet

Author:Taylor Lautner

“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.”

Years Done Moments Wanted Parent Class Trouble Sea Feet Association Shells Sailing Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Sea Shell Dinghies

Author:David Crosby

“I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.”

Years Half Feet Height Insecure

Author:Joan Smalls

“I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancers body and had these crazy high arches in my feet that resulted in an amazing point. Ballet was very disciplined and, frankly, a little boring, so I eventually transitioned to gymnastics. I loved that, although I never reached a competitive level.”

Years Littles Body Perfect Levels Feet Crazy Dancing Boring Dancer Ballet Gymnastics Arches Ballet Dancer

Author:Catherine Mary Stewart

“Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.”

Years Eye Earth Brain Feet Atheism Percent Years Ago Tools Sticks Errors Positive Atheism Experiments Plus Precision Zest

Author:Carl Sagan

“[When asked, as a prospective Presidential candidate, whether she had ever committed adultery:] No. But then most congresswomen don't have 25-year-old lifeguards throwing themselves at their feet around this place.”

Years Sex Feet Committed Commit Presidential Candidates Throwing Adultery Presidential Candidate Lifeguard

Author:Patricia Schroeder

“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

“The Loch Ness monster doesn't exist either. Loch Ness is just not big enough to hide a thirty foot amphibian or reptile for hundreds of years.”

Years Enough Bigs Feet Monsters Thirty Reptiles Amphibians Loch Ness Monster

Author:Brian Jones

“Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.”

Years Children Mother Music Feet Musician Singing Sitting Piano Strings Dusk Vistas

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“We commend a horse for his strength, and sureness of foot, and not for his rich caparisons; a greyhound for his share of heels, not for his fine collar; a hawk for her wing, not for her jesses and bells. Why, in like manner, do we not value a man for what is properly his own? He has a great train, a beautiful palace, so much credit, so many thousand pounds a year, and all these are about him, but not in him.”

Men Years Beautiful Values Rich Feet Share Fine Thousand Horse Wings Train Appreciation Credit Pounds Bells Heels Palaces Collars Hawks Greyhounds

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things I had learned in my first 40 years. I told him that the chief thing I had learned was that the copybook maxims are true, but that too many people forget this once they go out into the heat and hustle and bustle of the battle of life and only realize their truth once one foot is beginning to slip into the grave. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.”

“What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade. The years thunder by.”

“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

“Everything that can weaken us as a race we have had for the last thousand years. It seems as if during that period the national life had this one end in view, viz how to make us weaker and weaker, till we have become real earthworms, crawling at the feet of every one who dares to put his foot on us. Therefore my friends, as one of your blood, as one that lives and dies with you, let me tell you that we want strength, strength, and every time strength.”

Ifs Want Years Real Ends Seems Lasts Dies Views Race Blood Feet Strength Periods Thousand My Friends Let Me Dare Thousand Years Crawling

Book:Lectures from Colombo to Almora

Source: Lectures from Colombo to Almora

“My son is 12 now, and is really getting into girls. A lot. But the thing about twelve year old boys is that they don't possess what I like to call that ... discretionary gene yet. We were walking home from the ballfield the other day and there was a woman walking towards us who was ... gifted. I saw them, and I saw him see them. But she was too close for me to go, "Dude, shut up." She hadn't walked two feet behind us and he goes "God dang, did you see the SIZE of those things?" And all I could say was "Yeah, I did!"”

Years Two Home Humor Funny Girl Behinds Boys Saws Feet Son Walking Yeah Size My Son Genes Twelve Shut Up Gifted Walking Home

Author:Bill Engvall

“For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods disappear for the time from our minds. This is the only god that is awake, our own race - "everywhere his hands, everywhere his feet, everywhere his ears, he covers everything." All other gods are sleeping. What vain gods shall we go after and yet cannot worship the god that we see all round us, the Virât? When we have worshiped this, we shall be able to worship all other gods.”

Years Mind Hands Motivational Able Mother Next Sleep Race Feet Worship Ears India Rounds Disappear Vain Awake Fifty Great Mother

Book:Vivekananda Reader

Source: Vivekananda Reader

“At school I was called Fred, which is my middle name. At that time, Fred was considered to be a bit of a horrible name, so that's why. Otherwise, I was called Titchy because I was little. I was still only about 4ft something when I left school. I grew a foot under glass in my first year as a gardener. It's really quite amazing what sun and manure can do.”

Years Firsts Littles Stills School Names Left Bits Can Do Sun Feet Middle Grew Glasses Horrible Gardener Manure

Author:Alan Titchmarsh

“Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society... We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.”

“I would like to say that I have software that allows me to model worlds to a high degree of scientific plausibility. I'd also like to be six foot two and fifteen years into my reign as Emperor of Europa. The simple truth is that past the character's name and a long history of making my own body cover distances, I did very little in the way of targeted research.”

World Way Years Littles Long Two Character Body Past Names My Own Simple Feet Truth Is Degrees Six Models Research Distance Software Fifteen Reign Emperor Fifteen Years Simple Truths

Author:Robert Reed

“As a kid, I just was a contract player at MGM Studios. They put me into goodness knows how many different roles.Some of them were wonderful and some of them were very just distasteful and awful because I was playing out of my age range and I was thoroughly uncomfortable, let's put it that way. So it took me many years to find my acting feet.”

Knows Way Years Different Kids Age Acting Roles Know How Player Wonderful Feet Goodness Studios Awful Range Uncomfortable Contracts Distasteful Mgm

Author:Angela Lansbury

“There are some brilliant designers but their clothes only really suit 6 foot 20-year-olds.”

Years Feet Clothes Brilliant Suits Designer

Author:Joan Collins

“Each year it grows harder to make ends meet - the ends I refer to are hands and feet.”

Years Ends Hands Grows Feet Harder Hands And Feet

Author:Richard Armour

“I started skiing when I was five years old. I grew up on a little 300-foot mountain called Perfect North Slopes. It wasn't a great destination in the world, but it was a good enough place to learn how to do tricks.”

World Years Littles Enough Perfect Five Feet Grew Mountain Grew Up Tricks Five Years Destination Good Enough Skiing Slopes Five Year Olds

Author:Nick Goepper

“We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it.”

Men Years May Light Beautiful Moving Young Fighting Next Feet Honest Beats Machines Fats Get Up Young Man Old Man Fifteen Smooth Predictions Hazards Fifteen Years Leopards

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“For 15 years of my life I smoked, I drank, I used to do drugs... but during that time, I never once thought I was going to die. But the second I set foot on a stairmaster -the second- I am sure my heart is gonna explode and blood is gonna spray out of my nose.”

Years Heart Used Dies Blood Feet My Heart Drug Noses Drank Spray

Author:Marc Maron

“I'm five-foot-something, sixty years old; I'm not much of a physical threat to anybody.”

Years Five Feet Threat Sixty

Author:Shirley Franklin

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