Top 100 Sayings About A Foot
#1. The lost, the lonely, the bicultural misfits with a foot in two worlds and a place in neither.
Don Winslow
#2. Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time.
James Gleick
#3. You're welcome, you know." "For what?" Rhys paused less than a foot away, sliding his hands into his pockets. The night didn't seem to ripple from him here - and he appeared, despite his perfection, almost normal. "For saving you when asked." I
Sarah J. Maas
#4. When you were down, some guys just seemed to feel an urge to walk up your back and plant a foot on your neck instead of helping you to stand.
Stephen King
#5. Coming from New Zealand and Australia is like a tough pre-school for Hollywood. And having been on 'Neighbours,' even though the agents I met with hadn't seen it, they knew it's where Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce had come from. It was a foot in the door.
Jay Ryan
#6. Her eyes watered and she was a foot taller than any of her sisters, mostly because of the length of her neck which would one day hang from the end of a rope.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#7. Even though what I enjoy most is literature, I would not want to live only in a world of fiction, cut off from the rest of life. No - I want to always have a foot in the street, to be inmersed in the activities of my contemporaries, in the times, in the place where I live.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#8. Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is going to make you a better cook. At the end of the day, you can slice a mushroom in about three inches of space, and you can carve a chicken in a foot and a half. So it doesn't matter how big the kitchen is.
Tyler Florence
#9. He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
Horace
#10. Warriors say: I dare not be like the host, but would rather be like the guest. I dare not advance an inch, but would rather retreat a foot.
Laozi
#11. No food is as delicious as food you eat standing a foot away from a trash can. Ask any possum.
Mindy Kaling
#12. She was only six inches over five feet, and he stood almost a foot above her. Normally, she was used to being somewhat taller than most of the girls she knew, but now she felt like a small child standing in front of him, and it only increased her frustration.
Shellie Nicholson
#13. I don't see my show as a stepping stone to something else like some people, who get a job then have a foot out the door looking for their next job.
Craig Ferguson
#14. Far too many politicians suffer from foot and mouth disease; they always put a foot in their mouths
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#15. When we observe the words printed in a book, its paper, seemingly a foot away, is not being perceived--the image, the paper, is the perception.
Robert Lanza
#16. An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.
Confucius
#17. The bottom fell out of my stomach. It was like putting a foot wrong on a frozen creek, the crack of ice, and sudden drop, the knowledge that there was nothing beneath but dark water.
Leigh Bardugo
#18. One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs.
Kate Atkinson
#19. So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated we'll just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. We've also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there are a lot of exciting things in the pipeline.
Robert Lanza
#20. Satellite datasets like WorldView can see objects as small as 1.5 feet in diameter. In 2014, WorldView-3 will be able to see objects a small as a foot.
Sarah Parcak
#21. Everything I own can fit in two suitcases and a foot locker.
GG Allin
#22. An awful lot of people are living only a foot above high water and do not know it.
James T. Williams II
#23. Get over here. We're having intimate bed conversation and I won't do it with a foot of mattress between us.
Jane Seville
#24. Ultimately, wasn't dance a whispered question? A story told through the position of a foot, the tilt of a head, the touch of a hand, the brush of an eye. A rite of passage. A claiming.
Martina Boone
#26. I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.
Kevin Spacey
#27. The snowfall totals so far have been stunning, with 22 inches of snow on Mount Leconte, Tennessee, which is in the Great Smoky Mountains, and widespread amounts of half-a-foot or more in the southern and central Appalachian Mountains.
Anonymous
#28. There's very little in my world that a foot massage and a thin-crust, everything-on-it pizza won't set right.
G.A. McKevett
#29. When I was a small boy, I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than everyone else.
Robert Reich
#30. When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity. And boy! if you hit seventy, and can still get a foot off the ground, you're phenomenal!
Ruth St. Denis
#32. Physically, I'm not tough. I may think tough. I would say I'm kinda tough and calloused inside. I could use a foot more in height and fifty more pounds and fifteen years off my age and then God help all you bastards.
Humphrey Bogart
#33. Now I can tell you something dirty.
I like men who have a foot fetish.
I absolutely think it's the most charming thing.
It's just so romantic.
Elisabeth Rohm
#34. Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
Alexander Pope
#35. As Landry came to a stop in front of her, she was suddenly reminded how big and muscular he was. He loomed over her by nearly a foot. She almost laughed as she had a vision of climbing up his body to kiss him. Not that she minded. Something told her it would be worth it.
Paige Tyler
#36. How calm the house was. How deceptive that could be. One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. "One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs," she said to Ursula.
Kate Atkinson
#37. I am wholly willing to be here,
Between the bright silent thousands of stars
And the life of the grass pouring out of the ground.
The hill has grown to me like a foot.
Until I lift the Earth, I cannot move.
Wendell Berry
#38. To see Charles, the original lone wolf, caught with a foot in the trap of amor
this will amuse me for a while longer, I think.
Patricia Briggs
#39. Right there, his world was done. Because there was nothing that would be better than Carissa Teodoro standing a foot away with her hand warm on his, grinning up at him. Nothing.
Kristen Ashley
#40. Blue eyes as level as a foot rule, with wrinkles at the corners - the product of humour and of twenty years' staring at a thousand horizons.
Nicholas Monsarrat
#41. We don't persuade our neighbors by mimicking their angry power-protests. We persuade them by holding fast to the gospel, by explaining our increasingly odd view of marriage, and by serving the world and our neighbors around us, as our Lord does, with a towel and a foot-bucket.
Russell D. Moore
#43. Awakened by the oppressive midday heat, Zach opened his eyes to see a small blue and tan lizard doing what looked like push-ups about a foot away from his face.
Pamela Clare
#44. The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach.
Kathryn Stockett
#45. The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and optimistic. No species could survive for even a generation under such program. This is not a program of eternal, or even long-range dominance. It is clearly an extermination program.
William S. Burroughs
#46. It was impossible to be intimidating when the person you were staring down was a foot taller than you.
James S.A. Corey
#47. What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.
Mitchell Kapor
#48. Kelly has her hair sticking a foot in the air in every direction, sprayed solid like a helmet.
Addison Moore
#49. That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
Martin Goldsmith
#50. Jazz felt as though his own life was a mindfield, one he'd lost the map for. One wrong step and he'd lose a foot or leg. or his mind.
Barry Lyga
#51. Tomorrow will be better. It might be only a foot more than today, but it will be a foot longer that you can run
Sarah J. Maas
#52. I swallowed, feeling my pulse race, and gave silent thanks that there were no eyewitnesses to my blushing, which could have set a cigar alight even a foot away.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#53. Barely four feet tall back then, at least a foot shorter than him, and yet she'd said, "I won't run anymore. I won't try to leave. I've decided to stay and protect you." "Why?" Midnight black eyes afire in a sun-browned face that was all sharp bones. "Because you don't have a monster inside you.
Nalini Singh
#54. 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.
Robert Fortune
#55. Life is like a foot race, Marcus: There will always be people who are faster than you, and there will always be those who are slower than you. What matters, in the end, is how you ran your race.
Joel Dicker
#56. These will suffice; who knows but we may be on a slope which leads down to
aboriginal savagery. But of this 1 am sure: if we are to escape, we must not yield a foot upon demanding a fair field and an honest race to all ideas.
Nelson Algren
#57. Momma always said when Randy got an idea in his head it was more likely to come attached to a foot in his ass than a check in the bank.
Joe Schwartz
#58. Every night my wife used to give me a foot massage. And my face would smell weird afterwards, but ...
Emo Philips
#59. The door opens and my new neighbor is a vampire. He's nearly a foot taller than me. Unruly ink-black hair, and a face made of knife angles. If I were obnoxious, I might use the term shockingly attractive . Or terrifyingly handsome . Holy mother of balls would also be an option.
Eva Morgan
#60. He stood more than a foot taller than I did, his shoulders like a football player's pads, arms corded thick. He was huge, I realized. Kyle had been lean and toned. Colton was ... something else. Obviously powerful. Hard. Primal.
Jasinda Wilder
#61. The satyr gave me a sympathetic glance. She was shorter than me by a foot, with large hazel eyes that matched her curly hair. I tried to keep my eyes away from her furry lower half, but it was difficult, especially when she smelled faintly like a petting zoo.
Julie Kagawa
#62. Perhaps if you were not a foot taller, or quite so broad across the shoulders.'
'It's considerably less than a foot,' said Damen.
'Is it?' said Laurent. 'It feels like more when you argue with me on points of honour.
C.S. Pacat
#63. I want to play golf, practice and not do much else. I don't drink, I don't smoke and I hate going places where you have to yell at someone who is about a foot away from you.
Vijay Singh
#64. 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
#65. It's inexplicable why somebody can lose a leg and it doesn't effect them at all emotionally; and another person can lose a foot and be destroyed for the rest of their lives.
Krishna Das
#66. You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself - that leads to transformation of dust into pure gold.
Rumi
#67. For the piece of gold lies 3 feet deep, but your hole is only 2 feet steep, so dig on my friend, there's no time to weep. You've only a foot to go.....
Jonah Berger
#68. This world will slam doors in your face at every opportunity. Be willing to employ a foot when necessary.
Wes Fesler
#69. She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong.
Eloisa James
#70. It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet.
Randy Johnson
#71. It was a chef's knife," I said, holding my hands about a foot apart. "And a very large one."
"That's what she said," Ethan murmured.
Chloe Neill
#72. It is one thing to train in the yard with a blunted sword in hand, and another to drive a foot of sharpened steel into a man's gut and see light go out of his eyes.
George R R Martin
#73. But the player librarians all over the country were raving about most was Marjory Muldauer from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. A gangly seventh grader, a foot taller than any of her competitors, Marjory Muldauer had memorized the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system before she entered preschool.
Chris Grabenstein
#74. Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.
Thomas De Quincey
#75. The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe ...
Bill Murray
#76. Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio says there's a foot of snow falling on Long Island. I really love snow and wish I could take a long walk in it right now.
Jack Kerouac
#77. The point about Connectors is that by having a foot in so many different worlds, they have the effect of bringing them all together.
Malcolm Gladwell
#78. I appreciate the female foot, but I've never said that I have a foot fetish. But I am a lower track guy. I like legs' I like booties'. I have a black male sexuality.
Quentin Tarantino
#79. C.J. had spoken longingly of finding the African termite queen, the glistening white sac that was half a foot long and as thick as a bratwurst, bursting with eggs and creamy insect fat, the queen you ate alive and whole, and she was said to twitch as she went down your throat. (188)
Richard Preston
#80. Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.
John Ortberg
#81. it, I'm growing on you, aren't I?" she asked, a smile on her face as she placed a foot on the bottom step to the empty carriage. "Like a wart, darling," he replied with his accustomed grin, before shutting the carriage door after her.
A.W. Exley
#82. Our Lord is a foot washer, not a controller.
Chris Travis
#83. I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.
Benicio Del Toro
#84. Her leg, sculptured by the tight sheen of the stocking, its long line running straight, over an arched instep, to the tip of a foot in a high-heeled pump, had a feminine elegance that seemed out of place in the dusty train car ...
Ayn Rand
#85. How deceptive that could be. One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot.
Kate Atkinson
#86. I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.
Joan Smalls
#87. The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from their exceeding beauty of form, to take the place of the acanthus in architectural ornament, and throwing their pale green fruit into delicate contrast.
Isabella Bird
#88. I bet you a handful of Chili's coupons that Jesus had a foot fetish.
Corey Taylor
#89. I have a foot here and a foot in some spirit world. There are many more layers to reality, and that permeates my life and my writing in a very natural way. I don't even think about it.
Isabel Allende
#90. He leaves less than a foot of space between us and I'm 10 inches away from spontaneous combustion.
Tahereh Mafi
#91. It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.
Thomas Jefferson
#92. In the garden of our house, when I was three. My brothers and I had a jumping wall. I remember it as enormously high, but it was probably only about a foot and a half.
Juliet Stevenson
#93. I'm glad the NCAA is pushing back the 3-point line a foot. I'm a big supporter of the 3-point shot; it's exciting. I hope the high schools adopt the same rule.
Morgan Wootten
#94. No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.
Sidney Hook
#95. In the winter, when you're cold, the world extends no more than a foot in any direction.
Joe Hill
#96. I managed to get onto 'The Hobbit,' which is a story in itself. I missed the main round of auditions but managed to get a foot in the door at the last second - just as I came down with dysentery.
Conan Stevens
#97. And I'll tell you something else for free. If you set a foot over that doorsill, I'll wring your red neck.
Richard Peck
#98. Miss Maudie settled her bridgework. "You know old Mr. Radley was a foot-washing Baptist - " "That's what you are, ain't it?" "My shell's not that hard, child. I'm just a Baptist." "Don't you all believe in foot-washing?" "We do. At home in the bathtub." "But we can't have communion with you all -
Harper Lee
#99. They should move 1st base back a foot to avoid all those close plays
John Lowenstein
#100. If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
George Bernard Shaw
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