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“Don't be carried off your feet by anything because it is modern - the latest thing. Go to the Louvre often and spend a good deal of time before the Rembrandts, the Delacroixs.”

Deals Feet Modern Masters Louvre

Author:Sherwood Anderson

“Nathan Bedford Forrest ... used his horsemen as a modern general would use motorized infantry. He liked horses because he liked fast movement, and his mounted men could get from here to there much faster than any infantry could; but when they reached the field they usually tied their horses to trees and fought on foot, and they were as good as the very best infantry. Not for nothing did Forrest say the essence of strategy was to git thar fust with the most men.”

Men War Use Used History Tree Feet Modern Movement Fields Essence Horse Strategy Faster Civil War Tied American Civil War Horsemen Infantry

Book:American Heritage History of the Civil War

Source: American Heritage History of the Civil War

“Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.”

“Every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primitive being covered with hair down to his feet. Making contact with this Wild Man is the step the Eighties male or the Nineties male has yet to take. That bucketing-out process has yet to begin in our contemporary culture.”

Men Lying Culture Process Steps Feet Modern Hair Males Bottom Contemporary Contact Covered Primitive Eighty Wild Man

Book:Iron John: A Book about Men

Source: Iron John: A Book about Men

“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

“...I've learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them-business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye.”

Two Eye Enemy Impossible Feet Modern I've Learned Executives Boss Guise

Book:The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

“Modern man creates fancy cars while losing the sacredness of his feet and lungs.”

Men Feet Modern Car Losing Fancy Lungs Modern Man Sacredness Fancy Cars

Author:Steve Ilg

“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