With Paper For Feet Quotes

#1. Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.

Virginia Woolf

#2. It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.

William Faulkner

#3. The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.

Eldridge Cleaver

#4. Life's too short to be miserable, basically. If you can be happy, then be happy.

Jonathan Morris

#5. In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.

Maryrose Wood

#6. Staggering to her feet, Ceony stomped her shoe down on the hand twice before it stopped moving. She stomped it twice more for insurance.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#7. Al was standing a bare three feet away, his mood almost jovial as he took the paper and it vanished in a wash of black sparkles.
"Thank you, Rachel," he said, carefully reaching for my hand as Trent stiffened.
"Welcome back, my itchy witch.

Kim Harrison

#8. My loyalty and friendship has no bounds, no matter where life takes us you'll always have my hand.

Ellie Williams

#9. Empower us women and we will change this whole entire world.

Alicia Keys

#10. She makes for the closest training building, and I take my time following, watching the way she moves: angry, favoring her right leg, must have bruised the left in practice, keeps clenching that right fist - probably because she wants to punch me with it.

Sabaa Tahir

#11. If you're coming from America to Iraq, then how are you supposed to be objective? I mean, you could pay lip service to being objective, but how are you going to objective when you're embedded with the Marines? The Marines are saving your life every day and they're protecting you.

Shane Smith

#12. To owe what you had not yet earned, to have to work to earn what you had already spent, was a personal diminishment, an insult to nature and common sense.

Wendell Berry

#13. It's never wise to make love to a god.
I say love, as if
they understand the concept,
or anything except want and how to take.

Jennifer A. McGowan

#14. 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