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When you're on the open sea and you drop 10, 12 feet and your stomach goes up around your neck - that's when you have problems.
We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet.
My body doesn't have any rhythm, you know. I've got quite good rhythm when I'm singing but my feet are very much two left feet.
A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they're about to do and thinks it still matters.
Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.
You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close.
Energy is always paramount when hosting a live show, because you need every synapse firing, so you can think fast on your feet.
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
I'm just trying to put my feet into different characters and not play the stereotypical type thing, to let me grow as an actor.
There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
These aren't like logging roads to get those blades in there. They're greater than 40 feet in width, almost like a superhighway.
I am bit sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.
When we have a ball at our feet, we footballers are delighted, but what happens behind the scenes is not always all that pretty.
I don't want to look at myself like I'm some superhero. But I'm not going to let people wipe their feet on football on my chest.
Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground.
To every good friend I send my greet feet; addio nitwit. Love true true true until the grave, if I live that long and do behave.
I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.
Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.
Home is where the heart is, until we get a chance to bury it. Home is where the heart pulled the nails out of its feet, and fled.
My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.
No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.
We have seen the big loan servicers drag their feet in the Obama administration's well-intentioned mortgage modification program.
I'm on my feet, pacing around the room, punching a fist into my palm, which I stop doing when I realise how drama queen it feels.
MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.
The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.
No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]
You must be careful how you walk and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.
I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.
[Magnus] was wearing canary-yellow pajamas, and on his feet were green slippers with alien faces, complete with sproingy atennae.
When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.
I always felt I wasn't completely American and I wasn't completely British: there was a feeling of having my feet in both places.
Foot is superior to wing, because even when we have wings to fly in the sky, we still need feet so as not to crawl on the ground!
The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.
We are the hands, feet and mouthpiece of Christ. We are His ambassadors on Earth, called to stop injustice and restore His people.
All I'm saying is once you've been out in the woods and heard the things I've heard, you'd believe in Big Foot and the chupacabra.
Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.
In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
By the late '90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.
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.
I have always run as hard as I can. You are not going to run any harder with or without men. You are running on your own two feet.
Technically I don't play sports because I have two left feet and I cannot coordinate and my motor skills are a bit 'out of whack.'
Thoth, Hermes, the stylus, the palette, the pen, the quill endure, though our books are a floor of smouldering ash under our feet.
That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it.
A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.
Sociologists say that going to the movies is a bonding experience. It probably has to do with the way you feet stick to the floor.
I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet.
He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.