Putting My Foot Down Quotes

#1. No, you're not going with him."
I crossed my arms. "Who decided that?"
He put on his "I'm alpha and I'm putting my foot down" expression. "I decided.

Ilona Andrews

#2. I felt for a while with the GH appearances, they were kind of using me as a media trick, bringing me on for three or four weeks, saying I was back on the show, but not really writing for me. And then I would be gone. I just didn't like that anymore. I guess it was me putting my foot down.

Genie Francis

#3. I was putting my foot down with my new neighbor.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#4. No, no, no, Landemere. This time I'm putting my foot down. I mean it. Don't think you're going to smear syrup on my beard, as we say in Ramaldah. You're not making me change my mind by sweet talking me. I know your tricks, and I won't fall for them.

Andrew Ashling

#5. Never feel bad for being assertive, speaking your mind, and putting your foot down. What you think is anger, others see as a good solid display of self-esteem.

Alison James

#6. Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.

Samuel Johnson

#7. By thus keeping one pace ahead of myself I need never catch up with the truth.

Roger McGough

#8. What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

George Eliot

#9. No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.

Cyril Connolly

#10. It's almost inherent, but I'm a massive [Stanley] Kubrick fan. I'm a big admirer of what guys like Christopher Nolan have been able to do. For me, to be able to try to make big films that reach a lot of people, and that hopefully have something to say, is a lofty goal, but that's my goal.

David Brooks

#11. I'm not terribly intelligent - I have no university degree, you know.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#12. These three children own the summer. They know the wood as surely as they know the microlandscapes of their own grazed knees;put them down blindfolded in any dell or clearing and they could find their way out without putting a foot wrong.

Tana French

#13. Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.

Marshall McLuhan

#14. I like my lyrics to feel conversational and truthful, as if we're having real talk. I don't really like generic lyrics.

Meredith Brooks

#15. My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.

Robert Fripp

#16. All of my answers were drawings of armored unicorns.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#17. I don't play the sport for fame. I don't try to win tournaments for fame. I don't do any of that. It's just me. I'm just Bubba. I goof around. I joke around. I just want to be me and play golf.

Bubba Watson

#18. On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.

Jeff Daniels

#19. When you are unconditionally open and soft in your heart while your self empties and while your self fills, you live fulfilling the law of containment.

John De Ruiter

#20. He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax.

Charles Perrault

#21. As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist.

Jill Sobule

#22. Change seems recognizable only after it's happened, like putting one's foot down for a familiar stair - and it's not there.

Gloria Steinem

#23. In my mind, there's a time and a place for putting your foot down.

Jay Kay

#24. That's the spirit! Make it chicken broth or nothing. That's putting the old foot down. If she's determined to have a nervous breakdown, the least we can do is see that she doesn't have it in peace.

J.D. Salinger