Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Harshaw held that certain feet were made for stepping on, in order to improve the breed, promote the general welfare, and minimize the ancient insolence of office; he had seen at once that Heinrich had such feet."

…certain feet were made for stepping on ,in order to improve the breed, promote the general welfar...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

I had to learn to avoid stepping on (her) toes, and that made me more nimble on my feet,
GEORGE MIKAN

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

Well, I guess the sexual abuse by Mel Phillips in a sense, he had a fetish for feet. He used to play...
TOM COLE

He continues to improve. He cleared 12-6 and had a couple good attempts at 13 feet. I think Ryan wil...
BOB WALKER

In the zone she (Haines) had a lot of shots at three feet. In the fourth we held her in check other ...
PETE WILSON

Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. Those of us who a...
RICHARD FEYNMAN

For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
WALTER JON WILLIAMS

Billy made one on 11 that would have been 8 feet past if it had missed and then I turned around on 1...
GEORGE RINEHART

Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet
NINON DE LENCLOS

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.
NINON DE L'ENCLOS

[The confetti that 30 minutes earlier had exploded from the ceiling in a silvery rain now lay in clu...
ROBERT DUFFY

He had flat feet. He needed a letter from me saying that flat feet hadn't kept him from playing foot...
FRANK VAVALA

He's very good. He made two 3-pointers that were at least 28 feet. He handles the ball well and make...
HOWIE HEWITT

The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN

It's different to say that we were flying at 100 feet versus the trees are 100 feet and we were flyi...
JENNIFER HARDCASTLE

He had plenty of leg, but he just missed it by two feet to the left. I'm proud of that kid for the g...
MARK NARDONE

The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON

He definitely has some feet and showed that last week. Without Shaun in there, he made up for that. ...
MIKE RUCKER

Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU

He fought until he landed. When he had come to the ground I flew over him at an altitude of about th...
MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN

clear evidence that Iraq had taken advance actions at certain of the locations planned for inspectio...
RICHARD BUTLER

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made u...
RAYMOND CHANDLER

To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license.
ROBERT CASEY

Heinrich Heine once imagined the exiled Israelite as a dog who regains his stolen manhood only when ...
CLIVE SINCLAIR

They are a wonderful group of people. There were roaches crawling on my feet. I was speechless. The ...
ELIZABETH HARRINGTON

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your fe...
STEPHEN KING

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your fee...
STEPHEN KING

In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone w...
MILAN KUNDERA

I never complained of the vicissitudes of fortune, nor suffered my face to be overcast at the revolu...
SA'DI

There were seven and a half feet of water in the restaurant, and we had to close three weeks for rep...
JUDY BECK

There sat a massive oval vessel, over three feet long and two feet wide, as big as the copper basin ...
JANET GLEESON

If God had meant for us to walk, why did he give us feet that fit car pedals?
STIRLING MOSS

We were out on night-vision goggles and using forward-looking infrared to help our search. Unfortuna...
GRAHAM BUSCHOR

He Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
DOROTHY PARKER

Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such...
ARTHUR CAPPER

Hillary had never run for office before, but she decided to give it a try. She began her campaign th...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

I think that last 3-pointer he made was from 15 feet from beyond the arc. He's such a great player. ...
AARON GRAY

The students actually had the opportunity to play a variety of rhythm instruments together. There we...
JAN WILSON

Where, indeed? Captain Vincent Reed had been born in the city of Richmond, Virginia, of northern par...
JAMES A. MICHENER

Fortunately for the cause of science and of humanity, we had as Governor-General of Cuba at that tim...
WILLIAM CRAWFORD GORGAS

Robert Kapilow is a born teacher, an enthusiast who can think on his feet, a 110 percent believer in...
THE BOSTON GLOBE

He came back after a month and had blisters on his feet. He was walking six hours a day.
CHERYL MOORE

It was a personal record for Josh by more than two feet. He had gone 47 feet in our previous meet, s...
GALE GROSS

If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the dut...
ZACK DE LA ROCHA

Bare feet on the grass comfort the spirit and connect the body to the earth all at once!
MAXIMILLIAN DEGENEREZ

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to ...
DAVID SEDARIS

He's been working well at home so we knew he had an engine and Robert says he'll come on for that.
GRAHAM WYLIE

Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such...
ARTHUR CAPPER

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insur...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR

I brought you some coffee.” he held out the cup but she waved it away.
“I hate that stuff. ...
CASSANDRA CLARE

In 2009 I was sitting about thirty feet away from Barack Obama at the launch of Desoto Solar as he a...
STEVEN MAGEE

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN

He was very excited about that. He actually had one real good attempt at 15-feet, 6-inches. It's the...
CHARLIE HUGHES

Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER

The idea of going to the movies made Hugo remember something Father had once told him about going to...
BRIAN SELZNICK

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist ha...
ANDRE MALRAUX

Puns are little 'plays on words' that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look...
DAVE BARRY

Russell James asked me to shoot underwater. He tied my feet under the water. I don't know how ma...
ALESSANDRA AMBROSIO

By the time we've made it, we've had it.
MALCOLM FORBES

... all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which r...
KINGSLEY AMIS

It had to do with his feet, and where his mind was at the time.
DARRELL BEVELL

One does feel proud to belong to the human race when one sees the wonderful things human beings have...
AGATHA CHRISTIE

I was the wings that kept her aloft, while the churning sea of reality nipped at her feet. I kept he...
HUBERT MARTIN

She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to t...
DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER

The party has to be rebuilt on all levels. In a way, maybe it's to be expected when you've h...
PETER T. KING

The tree was two feet in diameter and part of the roots were uprooted, it was such a significant imp...
JAMES HUGHES

We believe that only government has the capacity--not to mention the political and moral responsibil...
JANET POPPENDIECK

And while I'm sure they're very admirable and brave and all the rest of it, I don't personally fancy...
J.K. ROWLING

This program ultimately will result in a platform that can stay aloft for more than 24 hours and eve...
DAVID LAWRENCE

When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and ...
KEN STARR

He felt even angrier that Dumbledore was showing signs of weakness. He had no business being weak wh...
J.K. ROWLING

He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhap...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER

He had to think on his feet and he did a great job, ... I am as happy as you can be losing.
CRAIG WILLIAMS

We had a tough time stopping them tonight. Martindale had 20 of their 29 points in the first half an...
LOU JUDSON

He had an effective removal order against him, he had a legal deportation order against him, there w...
JANIS FERGUSSON

A telkhine was hunched over a console, but he was so involved with his work, he didn't notice us. He...
RICK RIORDAN

He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to conte...
GASTON LEROUX

He had been hit once before in the series. It was certain given the variables I had to work with in ...
ERIC COOPER

After the comedy boom of the '80s, there was a certain formula that comedians had to do and coul...
SCOTT AUKERMAN

He (life) got to his feet with a sudden jerk,
collected his blanket
and then darted away...
SUMAN POKHREL

Feast of the Conversion of Paul The God of Pharisaism was like the God of the Deists, He stood al...
C. H. DODD

Our guess is around 100 units and that most were empties. One container had fallen from the stack on...
GARY LAGRANGE

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and ask...
JACK KEROUAC

They were more than 100 feet apart, we don't know how much more. The Air Canada jet had already fini...
DONN WALKER

My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances ...
MICHEL GONDRY

You don't get on your feet if you don't have to, you know. And these people were on their feet rocki...
GRAHAM NASH

May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

The play was running perfectly. I had a good screen, but it was a bad shot, I should have had my fee...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS

And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to ke...
BIBLE

We are busting at the seams over here. We only have about 2,000 square feet of office space and no s...
TIM DAVIS

Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr...
CHRISTINA ENGELA

Chris (Rodgers) is the best on-ball defender we have ever had. He has great feet and quick hands and...
LUTE OLSON

It has been the plan all along that once Bremer got his feet on the ground
JAY GARNER

The fact that he is continuing to improve is awesome. Throwing 49-6 is unbelievable. Fifty feet here...
CLINT LAWHORNE

If he had even blinked, she would have been gone; but he did not blink, and he held her, as he had l...
PETER S. BEAGLE

He was erratically effective. That was the most erratic we've seen him in a while. But he made the p...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

Harshaw held that certain feet were made for stepping on, in order to improve the breed, promote the general welfare, and minimize the ancient insolence of office; he had seen at once that Heinrich had such feet.

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Robert A. Heinlein

Harshaw held that certain feet were made for stepping on, in order to improve the breed, promote the general welfare, and minimize the ancient insolence of office; he had seen at once that Heinrich had such feet.

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