Standing On One Leg Quotes

#1. Sophie said a bad word. In the dim light she had stubbed her toe on one of the many dusty bricks piled around the place.
Naughty-naughty" Twinkle said.
Oh shut up!" Sophie said , standing on one leg to hold her toe. "Why don't you grow up?

Diana Wynne Jones

#2. I told my dad 'Yeah, I'm going to be a drummer', and he said 'Well, if you can rub your stomach at the same time as you pat your head at the same time you're standing on one leg and kicking the other one out in a circle and say the pledge of allegiance'. And I did all that just like bam, you know?

Tre Cool

#3. The necessity of getting up. He made it that far. Ended up with Banichi's arm around him, Banichi standing on one leg. The dowager-aiji said something rude about young men falling at her feet, and go sit down, SHE was in command of the plane.

C.J. Cherryh

#4. Summary of the Torah, whilst standing on one leg: What is offensive when done to you, do not do it to your neighbor. The rest is commentary, now go and study (it).

Hillel The Elder- First-century Jewish Scholar

#5. I say to you that suffering is not holding onto you, you are holding onto suffering.

Osho

#6. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward towards success.

C.S. Lewis

#7. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

Bertrand Russell

#8. I'd give you some pants, but I don't wear any," a mage standing by a bookshelf remarked sympathetically.

Andrey Vasilyev

#9. She fell, rolled, kicked out with one boot. The alien tripped over her leg and went sprawling, spilling one queen's egg onto its side. Ripley screamed in pain as her wounded leg was jarred, but then she was standing again, aiming the charge thumper and firing her last shot into the monster's face.

Tim Lebbon

#10. Poirot was standing in the larder in a dramtic attitude. In his hand he was brandishing a leg of mutton.
'My dear Poirot! What is the matter? have you gone mad?'
'Regard i pray you this mutton! But regard it closely!

Agatha Christie

#11. It is as if the first diviner of absinthe had been indeed a magician intent upon a combination of sacred drugs which should cleanse, fortify and perfume the human soul.

Aleister Crowley

#12. On Tuesday December seventh a lot of good things happened: they took the trach out, took the cast off my leg, and my PT, Maria, had me standing.

Amy Rankin

#13. Courage is standing still even though you want to run. Courage is planting yourself and turning towards the thing that scares you, whether it's your leg or your friends or the guy who could break your heart again. It's opening your eyes and staring that fear down.

A J Betts

#14. A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

Plutarch

#15. There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is.

Edward James Olmos

#16. There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#17. Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.

Alain De Botton

#18. I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.

Jesse McCartney

#19. I'm a simple man with a simple mind. I hold a simple set of beliefs that I live by. Number one, I believe in America. I believe it exists. My gut tells me I live there. I feel that it extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and I strongly believe it has 50 states.

Stephen Colbert

#20. In 2002, a lot of the pundits didn't get the off-year elections right. In 2004, a lot of people thought I was going down eight days before the election.

George W. Bush

#21. I could give a shit and piss who this is. She knows who we are. And she ain't got a little trickle goin' down her leg standing toe to toe with the bloodydamn Reaper of Mars, then she's got less brains than a wad of ass lint.

Pierce Brown

#22. Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#23. Standing in the shower, I feel something on the back of my leg that turns out to be my ass.

Mary Karr

#24. I love collaborating outside of my space.

Steve Aoki

#25. True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.

Jacob Burckhardt