Feet Quotes - Page 66

The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in. I've been shooting it ever since.

Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more before hitting a peak of 614 miles an hour, nine-tenths the speed of sound at my altitude.

Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.

I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.

What girl could fail to make a conquest who collapsed at a man's feet in the moonlight?

I do think better of womankind than to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high likes them or not.

I feel like a man who has had truckloads of filth heaped upon him; I am now asked to struggle to my feet and talk while more truckloads pour more filth around my head.

Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them than to look at the foot how the burials increased or decreased, and among the Casualties what had happened, rare and extraordinary, in the week current; so as they might take the same as a Text to talk upon in the next company, and withal in the Plague-time, how the Sickness increased or decreased, that the Rich might judg of the necessity of their removal, and Trades-men might conjecture what doings they were likely to have in their respective dealings.

If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest.

I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas.

Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.

He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.

The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.

Home is where the heart is, until we get a chance to bury it. Home is where the heart pulled the nails out of its feet, and fled.

Start each day off on the right foot.

The camera’s not a camera, really. It’s an open door we need to walk through. It’s up to us to keep moving our feet.

If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.

Another study described by NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which they will be putting out in print soon, they have only described it verbally, calling it an "Oh my God" study, suggesting that we could see nine feet of sea level rise as soon as 2050.

I had a dream that she put her foot through my belly button and I was playing this little piggy went to the market just with her toes, just her foot was sticking out of my belly button and it was completely normal!

Crash Holly's so short, you can see his feet on his driver's licence photo.

The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder . . . Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.

Think chest/hips/ push, or CHP, when it's time for uphill running. Chest up, hips forward, push strongly off each foot.

If the gas pedal on your car is shaped like a bare foot, you might be a redneck.