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"There's a different kind of comfort that comes from knowing that you are putting your best foot forward. It's called psychological comfort. Look at a picture of the Coney Island boardwalk in 1925. Men were in full-on three-piece suits, hats. They may have only had one suit. But they pressed it. They made it look as good as possible."
"The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off."
"LOVE will lay a carpet of treasures under your feet."
"Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere."
"OK, Rule number 1: Unless you're served in a frosted glass, never come within 4 feet of my lips."
"When we walk like (we are rushing), we print anxiety and sorrow on the earth. We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the earth... Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth. Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet."
"Is there anybody listening? Is there anyone who sees what's going on? Read between the lines, criticize the words they're selling. Think for yourself, and feel the walls become sand beneath your feet."
"A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long."
"Global warming experts are saying that sea levels could rise 20 feet. Apparently their strategy for surviving this is to stand on top of a pile of government research grant money."
"You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression."
"My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed and she would share her dreams with me."
"To chase the glowing hours with flying feet."
"Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin."
"When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I can't do this," I said. "I don't know what to say." "Say anything," he said. "You can't make a mistake when you improvise." "What if I mess it up? What if I screw up the rhythm?" "You can't," he said. "It's like drumming. If you miss a beat, you create another." In this simple exchange, Sam taught me the secret of improvisation, one that I have accessed my whole life."
"His left foot is fantastic. It's like Mozart. God gave Freddy the gift to play soccer. If he is prepared mentally and physically, nobody will stop him. (on Freddy Adu)"
"A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles."
"I have over five thousand costumes and props and cars, and I have a twenty-five thousand square foot warehouse full of memorabilia."
"I see almost no change in the price of the composite product that flows through Costco I don't feel sorry for the people who pay $27 million for an 8,000-square-foot condo in Manhattan. So inflation comes in places."
"The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain."
"You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day."
