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I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?
Author:
Wendy Williams
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As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.
Author:
Kit Williams
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I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air.
Author:
Esther Williams
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My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
Author:
Edith Wharton
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I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.
Author:
George Wallace
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I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
Author:
Denis Waitley
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Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.
Author:
Aubrey Vere
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The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.
Author:
Edward Tylor
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
Author:
Calvin Trillin
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Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
Author:
Lily Tomlin
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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Chad was in the right spot. He got a little aggressive with the third shot there. He probably didn't want that putt he had there for the par. And you don't want to put it back there where Casey and Sergio did because you have 20 feet of break there.
Author:
Hal Sutton
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There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.
Author:
Hudson Stuck
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When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long.
Author:
Sharon Stone
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I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.
Author:
Michael Stipe
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When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.
Author:
Pamela Stephenson
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Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
Author:
John Steinbeck
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Hilda and I slept alongside each other fully dressed, head to feet.
Author:
Stanley Spencer
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I wish my hair was thicker, and I wish my feet were prettier. My toes are really ugly. I wish my ears were smaller. And my nose could be smaller too.
Author:
Britney Spears
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On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'
Author:
Will Smith
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The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.
Author:
Alan Shepard
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On the 27th we came to the Cascade Rapids. The first or Little Cascade has about two feet fall, the second or Grand Cascade, a mile farther, is about a six foot sheer drop.
Author:
Ernest Seton
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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.
Author:
Jason Segel
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Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.
Author:
Charles Schulz
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I wanted to start with a very small role, to get my feet wet. I'm sure I'm not as good or as experienced as other actresses, but everybody has to start somewhere.
Author:
Claudia Schiffer
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And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get made,' so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet.
Author:
John Sayles
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We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.
Author:
Adam Sandler
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We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.
Author:
Rita Rudner
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A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.
Author:
Dennis Rodman
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I'm really good with fighting with my feet.
Author:
Eric Roberts
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I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked.
Author:
Tim Robbins
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A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
Author:
Jules Renard
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You can compare me with Greta Garbo. I have big feet, too.
Author:
Lee Remick
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What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.
Author:
Satyajit Ray
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When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
Author:
Victoria Principal
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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
Author:
Plato
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What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.
Author:
Gregory Peck
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
Author:
Vanessa Paradis
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The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.
Author:
Satchel Paige
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
Author:
Jack Osbourne
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For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.
Author:
Randy Neugebauer
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I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.
Author:
Guru Nanak
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We could receive a storm surge of three to five feet.
Author:
Ray Nagin
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In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.
Author:
Kary Mullis
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It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other.
Author:
David Morse
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You're suspended sixty feet up in the air, you've been up there for three hours, and all the shot requires is that you have to sort of react to getting punched in the head.
Author:
Alfred Molina
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Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o'clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed!
Author:
Marvin Minsky
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I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.
Author:
Keith Miller
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I used to have six left feet. Now I only have one and a half left feet.
Author:
Jesse McCartney
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I'm not invited. I'm not on the A list, haven't been on it in 20 years and my feet have never trod its red fluffy carpets.
Author:
Nick Mancuso
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In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.
Author:
Charles Lyell
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It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet.
Author:
Joanna Lumley
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A king should die on his feet.
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Louis Louis XVIII
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The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.
Author:
Augustus Longstreet
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.
Author:
Joe Lewis
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When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.
Author:
Cyndi Lauper
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I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.
Author:
Ann Landers
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You were about five feet short of a ten feet jump?
Author:
Johnny Knoxville
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Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.
Author:
Evel Knievel
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The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.
Author:
Stephen King
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Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
Author:
Frida Kahlo
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It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Author:
Dolores Ibarruri
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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
Author:
Dolores Ibarruri
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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Author:
Horace
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I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.
Author:
Joshua Homme
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Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.
Author:
Patricia Highsmith
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
Author:
Natasha Henstridge
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I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.
Author:
Merle Haggard
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I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.
Author:
Umberto Guidoni
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Yeah, my parents help me keep my feet on the ground.
Author:
Rupert Grint
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To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.
Author:
Franz Grillparzer
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I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.
Author:
Zane Grey
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If you feel you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
Author:
Robert Goheen
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The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.
Author:
Robert Fortune
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By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.
Author:
Johann Fichte
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I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet.
Author:
Douglas Feith
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No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
Author:
Quintus Ennius
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You have to have your wits about you and think quickly on your feet.
Author:
Michael East
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You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.
Author:
Charles Dutton
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The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
Author:
Isadora Duncan
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I'm very close to suggesting that Mr. Pitt has now served as long as he can usefully do so. He seems to take his foot out of his mouth only for purposes of changing feet.
Author:
John Dingell
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He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him.
Author:
Bob Crosby
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The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.
Author:
Ezra Cornell
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
Author:
Sidonie Colette
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January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.
Author:
Sara Coleridge
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The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.
Author:
Mary Clark
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In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.
Author:
Kate Chopin
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That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust.
Author:
Robert Byrd
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But once we got them on its feet then they run themselves, unless there's corrections you have to make.
Author:
Jerry Bruckheimer
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Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.
Author:
Pam Brown
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The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.
Author:
Phillips Brooks
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A spirit in my feet said go, and I went.
Author:
Matthew Brady
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I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'Go,' and I went.
Author:
Mathew Brady
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My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet.
Author:
Manolo Blahnik
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The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.
Author:
Elizabeth Bishop
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Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.
Author:
Bruce Beresford
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Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
Author:
Jeremy Bentham
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I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet.
Author:
Count Basie
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If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.
Author:
Count Basie
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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
Author:
Paul Auster
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I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
Author:
Fred Astaire
