Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes, along with spent reactor fuel.
In the first gospel, Mark, the risen Christ appears physically to no one, but by the time we come to the last gospel, John, Thomas is invited to feel the nail prints in Christ’s hands and feet and the spear wound in his side.
I was 5′ 10 when I was 14, skinny and flat, with huge feet, and I never had a boyfriend.
I don’t think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to have flights of fancy at times, but nevertheless, my feet are mostly on the ground.
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.
You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.
I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.
They do say, the smaller the feet, the better the dancer.
You’re suspended sixty feet up in the air, you’ve been up there for three hours, and all the shot requires is that you have to sort of react to getting punched in the head.
To wear dreams on one’s feet is to begin to give a reality to one’s dreams.
We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It’s just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous.
Since being quite young, I’ve had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.
We have enough to worry about with what’s happening in our nation to worry about what’s happening in California. Keep your feet grounded in your own backyard and together we’re going to build communities that work.
The first few weeks of joining Weight Watchers, you’re just finding your feet.
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
I admired shows like ‘Six Feet Under.’ That was an amazing show. Never boring, always inventive, smart. Loved the characters. Completely original. Those are shows that I admire.
Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.
It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have – I guess you’d call them beauty contests – where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.
You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.
A king should die on his feet.
Remember the phrase – ‘Act your age, not your shoe size?’ That didn’t apply to me, as they were the same until the age of 12 when my feet stopped growing.
The summer of 1830 I… blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill… In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.
I’m never sure one is exactly ready. You jump in, with both feet, into a very big fish pond.
We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten.
My fondest hope is that ‘Roots’ may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.
You can compare me with Greta Garbo. I have big feet, too.
I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.
