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Quotes About Feet

What's the point of three foot pedals?" Citra complained. "People only have two feet.
~ Neal Shusterman
The night solidified into a wall, and my eyes had to guess where yours would be as I drank in your breath: nectar! venom! and your feet lay still in my harmless hands: the night solidified into a wall.
~ Charles Baudelaire
At Marcy I spot what I am looking for and shimmy up a lampost and untangle the pair of sneakers that some kid has tossed up there that dangle in testement to some shit that I have never figured out as long as I have lived in this city. I sit on the curb and stuff my feet inside leaving the laces undone. There too small but the right one fits a little better than the left. Not having a big toe is already paying off.
~ Charlie Huston
Any evil which you might have seen with your eyes, or spoken with your mouth, or heard with your ears or trodden with your feet; whatever your father might have brought upon you or your mother brought upon you, I cover them all here.
~ Chinua Achebe
I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.
~ T. C. Boyle
The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes. Their feet are arched.
~ Christian Louboutin
you got two feet, Sethe, not four. he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.
~ Toni Morrison
Having your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace creates a stability that even Satan cannot undo.
~ Tony Evans
Our altitude has stabilised at 37,000 feet again.
~ Kevin Sullivan
And kissing him is like sucking on alcohol-soaked feet.
~ Kristin Cast
The king is my son!" Cersei rose to her feet. "Aye," her uncle said, "and from what I saw of Joffrey, you are as unfit a mother as you are a ruler.
~ George R.R. Martin
Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
~ John Philip Sousa
A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in water.
~ Fisher Ames
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace.
~ Bible
Eve felt the shuttle dive, simply closed her eyes. Nothing made sense about being thousands of feet over an ocean. It was insanity. The human race was just bat-shit crazy.
~ J.D. Robb
The sparrow hops along the veranda, with wet feet.
~ Jack Kerouac
I had a job transcribing a biotechnology-litigation seminar. You put headphones on and fast-forward and stop with your feet. There were a lot of 'um's.'
~ Adam Schlesinger
He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.
~ James I. Robertson, Jr.
The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
~ Robert Orben
The woman is perfected.Her deadBody wears the smile of accomplishment,The illusion of a Greek necessityFlows in the scrolls of her toga,Her bareFeet seem to be saying:We have come so far, it is over.
~ Sylvia Plath
But at my back from time to time I hearThe sound of horns and motors, which shall bringSweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring.O the moon shone bright on Mrs. PorterAnd on her daughterThey wash their feet in soda water.
~ T. S. Eliot
Keeping time,Keeping the rhythm in their dancingAs in their living in the living seasonsThe time of the seasons and the constellationsThe time of milking and the time of harvestThe time of the coupling of man and womanAnd that of beasts. Feet rising and falling.Eating and drinking. Dung and death.
~ T. S. Eliot
All through this case, since the moment the car crested the hill and we saw Knocknaree spread out in front of us, the opaque membrane between me and that day in the wood had been slowly, relentlessly thinning; it had grown so fine that I could hear the small furtive movements on the other side, beating wings and tiny scrabbling feet like a moth battering against your cupped hands.
~ Tana French