Flat Footed Quotes

#1. I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.

Dick Gregory

#2. A part of all I earn is mine to keep.' Say it in the morning when you first arise. Say it at noon. Say it at night. Say it each hour of every day. Say it to yourself until the words stand out like letters of fire across the sky.

George S. Clason

#3. When you're in elected office, you always have to operate under the assumption that you're in a dog fight for re-election. It's when you don't prepare for a tough battle, when you're caught flat-footed, that you're vulnerable.

Kevin Yoder

#4. It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

Dick Gregory

#5. The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.

Zack Wheat

#6. I reject what I see as flat-footed accounts of the fundamental structure of the world, where we somehow assume that, because ordinary experience involves middle-sized objects in space and time, that fundamental reality must be essentially like that.

L.A. Paul

#7. With his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies.'
'Courting, dear,' my father corrected gently.
'Semantics,' she shrugged.

Patrick Rothfuss

#8. You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Joseph Conrad

#9. The secrets of evolution are death and time - the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Carl Sagan

#10. Unfortunately, when a flat footed Elder God wants to harass you, there's not a lot you can do but sit there and take it.

Dennis Liggio

#11. Yoga is an inner process, which makes it a solitary venture, yet it works better when you have external support.

Nirmalananda

#12. It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#13. Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters.

Rogers Hornsby

#14. Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much
all of it wrong.

Tamora Pierce

#15. Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.

Chuck Palahniuk

#16. I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!

George MacDonald

#17. You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

T. S. Eliot

#18. I was this flat-chested, big-footed, lanky thing.

Lauren Bacall

#19. Alas! I had not then learned the measure of "man's inhumanity to man," nor to what limitless extent of wickedness he will go for the love of gain

Solomon Northup

#20. A great deal has been accomplished by the team, and I do think it important that it goes on and it is allowed to reach its full conclusion. In fact, I really believe it ought to be better resourced and totally focused on WMD; that that is important to do it.

David Kay

#21. You are as dry as vermouth.

Lauren Groff

#22. Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.

Amy Hempel

#23. If we could convey a smile or a reason to smile to each one we meet, we could create a world of true harmony.

Jes Fuhrmann

#24. If blacks were given the right to vote, that would place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored in the country upon an equality with the poor white man.

Andrew Johnson

#25. When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.

Frank Stella

#26. It's better to like beautiful girls than to be gay.

Silvio Berlusconi