- Nov 07, 2020
Feet Quotes
An unusual word that turns up in some memorable lines.
This set uses 'feet' in surprisingly varied ways - a childhood memory about outdated TV casting requirements, a security guard leaping up in excitement at a chance meeting, and a bit of self-deprecating physical comedy. Related reading: Great.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mates are absolute nutters. They're all Essex boys in the true sense and they definitely keep my feet on the ground.
- Grass
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got this pretend grass stuff called LazyLawn on my roof. Now I can go out on my terrace in bare feet, and it looks exactly like a lawn. This is what science should be for.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certain films should only be watched at 40,000 feet. Like, certain comedies and certain, uh, emotionally charged movies.
- Behaved
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.
- Neck
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- Nov 07, 2020
Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get made,' so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I was grounded. I thought from my kinda blue-collar outlook on life that I would call myself a grounded person. I was not. I was like a balloon flying around in the air. And as soon as our first child was born, boom - my feet came right down to the ground.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree.
- Mouth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very close to suggesting that Mr. Pitt has now served as long as he can usefully do so. He seems to take his foot out of his mouth only for purposes of changing feet.
- Cramp
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are only three things that stop me sleeping: hunger, the odd bad dream and cramp in the arches of my feet - it's crippling, as if somebody's trying to tie your foot in a reef knot.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020