Niccolo Paganini
Composer, Violinist
"I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Power and speed be hands and feet."
William Adams
Explorer
"So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye."
Conrad Hall
Cinematographer
"It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery."
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"I used to have six left feet. Now I only have one and a half left feet."
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"This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind."
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"Wow, monitor lizards are pretty gnarly creatures. I want to go with the monitor lizard. That's just weird enough to be true. No?"
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"In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march."
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"The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must."
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"I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what that tells you. People who look like... they're waiting for a sandwich that's never going to come. I don't know what's wrong with me."
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