It’s no surprise that work is good for us – the financial security of regular pay and the social and health benefits of being employed keep us healthy and alert. But some people who want to work find it nearly impossible get their foot on the ladder.
Jody Hill, who I created ‘Eastbound And Down’ and ‘Fist Foot Way’ with, was my best man at my wedding.
I started out on an apprenticeship in Hollywood working as an assistant to Hans Zimmer and another composer Klaus Badelt. That’s how I got my foot in the door.
On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figure than when Tchaikovsky led the first performances in 1891. Virtually every major artist has performed there. There is simply no place like it. The first time I stepped foot in Carnegie Hall was in 1964.
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
I know I have a big, big head. Hats, a lot of times, do not fit me. What is the average head size? Maybe like 16 inches. From the center of my forehead around to other side might be a foot, give or take four inches.
Hakim Ziyech has got a left foot that can open a can of worms, Timo Werner scores plenty of goals, Tammy Abraham looks like he’s getting better and then there’s Mason Mount. They’ve just got so much attacking talent.
It’s a game that I love and I want to continue to play. I know that I’ll have a job somewhere. You’ve just got to go out there and put your best foot forward.
I have a tendency to dip my foot in self-destructive behavior.
My parents came from Calcutta. They arrived in Cambridge, much like the parents in my novel. And I found myself sort of caught between the world of my parents and the world they had left behind and still clung to, and also the world that surrounded me at school and everywhere else, as soon as I set foot out the door.
I consider my MMA training starting the day I set foot in Urijah Faber’s gym.
I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn’t set foot in another church until I was 28.
It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.
Fish don’t have hands; to investigate, they open their mouth, and sometimes it’s someone’s foot.
When I was younger, I didn’t know television presenting was a thing, which is how I totally got my foot in the door. But I didn’t really know that was a job. I never really had a TV or watched TV, and I really just wanted to be an actor.
The Sixties – I had to have my foot in everything then. I’m doing the same thing now but through an intermediary. You know. The food company. Maybe that’s the way to go about it. You go right straight into the inferno, and when you get older, you pull back.
There’s a foot race between gas bills and paychecks.
As a coach, you never take your foot of the gas when it comes to enforcement of your culture.
Yeah, I blew up. But people don’t see the other side of it. They don’t talk about how I played on a broken foot. They don’t know about the everyday grind.
I went and hung out at a foot fetish party, and I knew that was a very popular fetish to have, but I didn’t realize how amazing it would be to have it.
I am constantly on the move, and if I experience foot discomfort, it makes my job really hard to do.
I’m 5 foot 2. I wish I were 5′ 6. Everyone who meets me says, ‘Oh my God. You look so much taller in person.’
Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a rearguard retreat against the evidence, grudgingly conceding each foot of ground only when forced, feeling cheated. Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can.
Volleying comes into grass-court tennis because it’s a surface that favours the player who gets on the front foot. So if you’ve got an opportunity to come in and be aggressive, then finishing the points at the net is always going to be a good strategy.
If you let in a goal, you don’t sink into your shell, you come out even harder and put people on the back foot, home or away.
No matter which way you do it you need to make something happen and get a song that makes you feel a certain way, whether that’s making you tap your foot or beat someone up or whatever you’re doing, you just need some passion about it.
I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.
I can say that I don’t see myself with the foot on the gas pedal as hard as it’s been down for 16 years.
I think you need to see parts one, two, and three of ‘The Omen.’ And then just skip the ending of number three – it’s so bad it makes me want to put my foot through the TV.
I love to go on long drives while listening to emotional, peppy and foot taping numbers, depending on my mood. I have a wonderful sound system.
Being asked to memorise a script in one day when you have dyslexia is the same as having a broken foot and being asked to dance. You have to make exceptions for it.
Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world – it is thin.
You have tremendous flexibility in defining both the greater good and the greater community. If you don’t succeed in this, then you will continue to pull that heavy wagon up the mountain, and despite the fact that you are pulling it, it will somehow run over your own foot.
I’ve always wanted to keep my foot in film as well as theatre and be working in both worlds.
Within a day of wearing the insoles, my feet felt more comfortable, and a week later I was able to go for walks, play golf, and play football with my son, which I hadn’t for years. The insole is sculpted to the foot and manipulates it into the correct position, preventing damage to the plantar fascia tissue.
You can have a bad day, but as soon as you set foot on that stage it’s joyous.
Sure, food stamps are occasionally misused, but anyone familiar with business knows that the abuse of food subsidies is far greater in the corporate suite. Every time an executive wines and dines a hot date on the corporate dime, the average taxpayer helps foot the bill.
My hips will always lead in the downswing, and I’ll always fire off my right foot. I know Tiger and other big hitters keep their right foot down and mainly use their bodies to power through the ball, but I’m not Tiger’s size.
Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space.
I put my best foot forward to make the best impression I could have, and it’s been serving me well ever since.
I had a second-degree-blue-belt test, and I broke two boards with my right foot, and the next day I walked into school, and no one ever picked on me again. I suddenly believed in myself and respected myself. I had some inkling of my power, so the bullying stopped instantly.
Because bisexual people almost have a foot in the gay and the straight world, their friends can misunderstand them too. Like if a bisexual man starts dating another man, people are like ‘Ah, he’s gay,’ but you know, bisexual people remain bisexual, and their attractions can change and flux over time.
It is easy to criticize me from behind a pen or a microphone, from someone who never set foot on a football field.
I can’t shoot myself in the foot before I get in the chorus line.
I don’t want to be part of ideas which are regressive and put us on the back foot.
For many progressives, 2016 will go down as a year of electoral shocks and profound disappointment. In the U.S., France and many other parts of Europe, the right enters 2017 with newfound confidence while the left recoils in fear of the future, unsure how to get back on the front foot.
I think this industry can be tough on everyone. You have to surround yourself with supportive people and know when to put your foot down and do what’s best for you and your family. The first few years in the music industry can be a steep learning curve, and I’ve definitely developed a thicker skin!
I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion.
During an economic crisis, what matters is that the government keeps its foot on the accelerator.
Women don’t take enough risks. Men are just ‘foot on the gas pedal.’ We’re not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.
Back when I was growing up, I always had one foot in the street and one foot in music.
I have a very basic leg. But it has a silicon cover on it. I have a flat foot leg, a high heel leg and then I have a leg which, in the winter, I have to ski in and in the summer I swap it into my roller blades.
How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name?
I like mixing things up. That makes it more interesting. I love mixing in slower funk with what I do. I’ll add drum and bass and put my foot to the gas pedal and press it to the floor.
I want to stay away from politics, or else I’ll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth.
I’ve never been particularly aware of my age. It’s like being on a bicycle – I just put my foot down and keep going.
When I was coming up, everybody wanted to be Tom Hanks. There was always Robert De Niro and Al Pacino – they were the heavily dramatic stuff. I always had a foot in both camps. The hardest thing was to resist the advice to be like someone else. It took me a while to figure that out.
