Putting On A Front Quotes

#1. Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.

Banks

#2. Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands.

Amy Alcott

#3. If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I'm going to get there. I've begun to think we sit far more than we're supposed to." He smiled. "Why else would we have feet?

Rachel Joyce

#4. Sitting there that day, I knew that the only thing I could do was keep putting one foot in front of the other, hoping none of the secrets on my shoulders would make me lose my balance.

Ally Carter

#5. Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.

Jojo Moyes

#6. Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a
red flag to a bu ... was like putting something very annoying in front of
someone who was annoyed by it.

Terry Pratchett

#7. I think as an actor, you're constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing - and failing in front of a bunch of people - and sometimes you have a good moment and something clicks.

Chris Messina

#8. Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.

Aidan Quinn

#9. A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

Steve Jobs

#10. Your job as a producer is to make suggestions without putting your ego in front of everything else. Also, I think you want to focus on that artist's best qualities and really highlight them.

Adam Schlesinger

#11. We need to broaden the horizon of our faith, putting more difficult tasks in front of us each time

Sunday Adelaja

#12. For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.

Dianne Feinstein

#13. Oh, I just love the Tube! And the Facebook! And the Tweets!" "Why do you keep putting the in front of those?" "Out of respect." Grandma's eyebrow rose all the way to her hairline. "You never address the president as president.

Rachel Van Dyken

#14. Don't look too far ahead or you'll get overwhelmed. Just do the next apparent thing. Keep putting one foot in front of the other. You'll get through this. And when you do, you'll feel great!

B. J. Gallagher Hateley

#15. The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they just lead the way.

Quentin Tarantino

#16. You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

Tom Hiddleston

#17. In front of the cave there was a sign saying it was for sale, and the orphans could not imagine who would want to buy such a phantasmagorical - the word 'phantasmagorical' here mean 'all the creepy, scary words you can think of putting together' - place.

Lemony Snicket

#18. Putting Zodiacs in front of whaling vessels doesn't do it anymore. Done that, been there, seen that.

Paul Watson

#19. 2 All of Me
Be Gentle My Friend
Be gentle with yourself,
forgive yourself for mistakes,
don't expect to be perfect
just get moving, and
keep putting one
foot in front of
the other
Love
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Love

#20. The houses looked like something a child might draw, a row of shaky squares with triangles on top. Add a door, add two windows. Think of putting a tree in the front yard, and then decide against it because branches aren't worth the trouble.

David Sedaris

#21. The door slams in response, and I laugh. I'm glad she can laugh. It means she really is coping. I know she's internalizing a lot, though. Putting on a show for me. She'll have new scars on her wrists soon.

Jasinda Wilder

#22. I concentrate on the simple act of putting one foot in front of the other and continue moving forward even as part of me is left behind, beyond a fence I cannot breach.

Amy Engel

#23. I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting it onto a bird and letting the bird fly away in front of me with this thing on its face for no other purpose than to amaze me.

Richard Brautigan

#24. In recovery, it's all about putting one foot in front of the other. As a writer, it's all about putting one word next to another on a page.

Jennifer Storm

#25. I'll try just putting one foot in front of the other, and walk a step at a time without rushing. So I can burn the path into my memory while I can still see it. So that when all this is over, I can find my way back. Because I intend to come back. Hopefully with all of us together.

Yukako Kabei

#26. I find I still adore walking. Absurd, obviously, what with it being merely a case of putting one foot in front of the other and so on - but there you are.

Glen Duncan

#27. You look at war as something that is putting your best friend in jeopardy. You are responsible for the person in front of you and the person behind you, and the person to the left of you and the person to the right of you.

Steven Spielberg

#28. If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.

Prince Philip

#29. Well, Mr. Speaker, if so many of these Iraqis are ready to come up and to provide the security, the police work in the country, then surely there should be no problem with putting American forces into the background instead of having them up front.

Marty Meehan

#30. There is a bit of acting involved when you get in front of a camera for a video. Even when you perform onstage, you're putting on a show.

Aaliyah

#31. We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it.

Blaise Pascal

#32. You know, we live in a time when if somebody wants to kill you, they're going to kill you, and you can either go in a hole and, you know, pull the roof in over you, or you just continue putting one foot in front of the other and hope that you're doing some good in the world.

Gene Robinson

#33. Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.

Malorie Blackman

#34. We all have our battles. We get past them the best we can by putting one foot in front of the other. Looking back doesn't do anything but make it hurt a little more.

Harper Sloan

#35. He knew stripping in front of him was hard on her. Putting herself under his scrutiny and risking rejection was painful. What she didn't seem to understand was that he would never reject her. Ever.

Elle Aycart

#36. Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

Anita Shreve

#37. Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting slavery behind you. If a petite, abused slave can rise up, fight for freedom, secure the freedom of others, and change her world, so can I. And so can you.

Susie Larson

#38. People stand in front of an officiant and say 'I do' but that shouldn't mean 'I'm done' when comes to putting time and effort to grow their relationship.

Beth Ehemann

#39. You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.

Ali Vincent

#40. It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.

Hope Solo

#41. The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.

John Rhys-Davies

#42. As every runner knows, running is about more than just putting one foot in front of the other; it is about our lifestyle and who we are.

Joan Benoit Samuelson

#43. It doesn't take any effort to dream. It's a lot easier than looking at the problems in front of you and figuring out what you're going to do about them. But all you're doing is putting your problems up on a shelf for later, right? That doesn't make them go away.

Fuyumi Ono

#44. When he was nearly thirty-six, my brother Jem got his heart badly broken when his fourth marriage fell apart, mostly because his wife never could get used to Boo, who lived with them and creeped her out by making little wooden dolls of her and putting them in the hollow tree out front.

Silas House

#45. I want to put concepts in front of people that make them laugh or smile or even hate what I do. I'm not interested in just putting clothes in stores.

Thom Browne

#46. Anne hated the idea of putting me down in front of the audience.

Jerry Stiller

#47. I would waste thirty minutes a day, standing in front of a mirror that I never had any inclination to really pay proper attention to. And even after I made myself up for nothing, I was still derided and abused for it. It was rather like putting a dress on a bear and pretending it was beautiful.

Michelle Franklin

#48. Fate has a way of putting in front of us, that wich we most try to leave behind.

Mozzie White Collar

#49. For me, my yoga practice is like putting a one in front of a lot of zeros. Without my practice, everything quickly becomes chaotic.

MC Yogi

#50. Just putting a computer in front of a student doesn't make education better.

Joel Klein

#51. We're all like the slaves in the fields now, putting on the front that says 'Everything's fine, boss' while we worry about how to make ends meet.

Irvine Welsh

#52. There is a lovely warmness about feelings of nostalgia as though in one's head one is putting on a pair of comfy old slippers and curling up in front of a fire.

Bill Geist

#53. I'm having my platform run up by a movie set designer, so it will be very impressive from the front, but not too premanent. After all, there's no sense putting a lot of time and thought into something you'll have no use for after you're elected.

Gracie Allen

#54. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us.

Paulo Coelho

#55. Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive

Joseph Weizenbaum

#56. I think everyone should take an acting class. It's like therapy because you get to learn a lot about yourself if it's the right teacher. You're putting yourself up there in front of people, and it takes a lot of the intimidation of everyday away.

Joelle Carter

#57. If you're going to build a lean enterprise, you can test and measure how often the company ships iterations, how often it fails, how often it is putting things in front of people that don't work.

Seth Godin

#58. Self-Enquiry is not asking you to believe or to trust - it is putting a mirror in front of you and asking you to look. Enquiry is suited to many people in the West, because we are more mental. And it is very direct. So unsparing is its look that nothing can escape.

Mooji

#59. Either you have dreams or you live your dreams. I'm not all that remarkable. I just keep putting one foot in front of the other until I get to where I have to go.

Zoe Koplowitz

#60. And, in the end, I knew there was nothing better in life than keeping the head and the heart up - and when you cannot see the shoreline, always putting one hand, one word, in front of the other.

Gerald Hausman

#61. 'Downward Spiral' felt like I had an unending bottomless pit of rage and self-loathing inside me and I had to somehow challenge something or I'd explode. I thought I could get through by putting everything into my music, standing in front of an audience and screaming emotions at them from my guts.

Trent Reznor

#62. I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't.

Kim Novak

#63. Odd pushed himself to keep walking, one step at a time, remembering back when he had walked with ease and never thought twice about the miracle of putting one foot in front of the other and pushing the world towards you.

Neil Gaiman

#64. Playing music in front of thousands of people never bothered me. It was only when I started putting on magic shows in front of a much smaller audience that I would begin sweating bullets, so I'm much more focused now.

David Lovering

#65. What's with the "iMagic" name change?' I said without preamble.
'Industrial Magic was a bit of a mouthful,' he explained. 'Besides, putting an "i"in front of anything makes it more hip and current.

Jasper Fforde

#66. This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods.
Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

Lois McMaster Bujold