Quotes About Bootstraps

I'm actually loving the soundtrack to 'The Secret Circle' that our music supervisor Liza Richardson puts together, like Washed Out and Cults, but my favorite band is Bootstraps.

To use the human metaphor, it would be like trying to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. It can't be done.

Myth 7: Everyone Can Pull Himself or Herself Up by the Bootstraps.

I polled several friends to see how much time they would grant between "a blinding, bad time" and a life that has simply become a depressive waste; the consensus was around seven years. This bespeaks the generosity of my friends -- I imagine most Americans would give themselves a year, maybe two, before they castigated themselves into some form of yanking up the bootstraps.