“I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.”
Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923–2014) writer
Source: Mr. Wrong
MTV.com Jack Talks About His Addiction and Recovery
“I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.”
Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923–2014) writer
Source: Mr. Wrong
"Thoughts on a Still Night" (静夜思); in Jean Ward's Li T'ai-po: Remembered (2008), p. 99
Variant: Variant translation:
Before my bed the moonlight glitters
Like frost upon the ground.
I look up to the mountain moon,
Look down and think of home.
Source: "Quiet Night Thought", in Classical Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Translations (2000), p. 723
Steve Kluger book Almost Like Being in Love
Source: Almost Like Being in Love
“I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.”
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Reported by Ryan Lizza in the New Yorker, said to Patrick Gaspard during a job interview in 2007. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/17/081117fa_fact_lizza?printable=true <br class="br">2007
“From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it.”
Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) American labor and political leader
"The Day of the People," The Class Struggle Vol. III No. 1 (February 1919) http://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1919/daypeople.htm
“My feet are heavy now but on I go,
My head erect beneath the tragic years.”
John Davidson (1857–1909) Scottish poet
I felt the World a-spinning on its Nave, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I listen to the wind
To the wind of my soul
Where I’ll end up well I think,
Only God really knows”
Cat Stevens (1948) British singer-songwriter
The Wind
Song lyrics, Teaser and the Firecat (1971)
“You are my sunlight in the dark and the ground beneath my feet.”
Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale
Source: The Nightingale