#boot

all of the creatures were staring fixedly at Boots. She was standing on the back of her loyal cockroach friend, Temp, smack in the middle of the octagon, singing "The Itsy-Bisty Spider" at the top of her lungs. The green spider, to whom the song principially was directed, seemed to be cringing. Boots was somewhat off-key, but Gregor was pretty sure it was the loudness that was making the arachnid hunch down and contract. [...] "She has been going on like this for hours," whispered Nerissa. "Days more like it," said Ripred in disgust. [...] "Next I will sing one for you!" announced Boots, pointing at the bat, who actually flinched. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#humor #ripred #songs #spider #humor

In reference to the search for Lincoln's killers as it took to the Maryland swamps: "The method of searching the swamps is simple yet arduous. First, the troops assemble on the edge of bogs with names like Allen’s Creek, Scrub Swamp, and Atchall’s Swamp, standing at loose attention in the shade of a thick forest of beech, dogwood, and gum trees. Then they form two lines and march straight forward, from one side to the other. As absurd as it seems to the soldiers, marching headlong into cold mucky water, there is no other way of locating Booth and Herold. Incredibly, eighty-seven of these brave men will drown in their painstaking weeklong search for the killers. ↗

— Bill O'Reilly

#civil-war #history #john-wilkes-booth #lincoln #change

It’s hard to steal somebody’s shoes while they are wearing them and not have them notice. But that’s what politicians have done in this country. Not only that, but they replaced all our footwear with concrete boots.
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— Jarod Kintz

#country #freedom #liberty #politicians #politics

However, in fetishism the desired object is displaced; and in this context (“The Apparition” by Guy De Maupassant) it is the desiring object, so to speak. In other words, have we ever seen a boot in love with a fetishist? ↗

— Philippe Lejeune

#fetish #fetishism #love

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps. ↗

— Peter Abrahams

#carried #changed #dream #lost #magic

Being from Texas, I would say I favor a pair of jeans you can wear some boots with. ↗

— Jensen Ackles

#boots #favor #i #jeans #pair

This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#above #awhile #boots #corridors #drawn

I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#booth #colleagues #democrat #equal #every

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine? ↗

— Frank Carson

#boot #car #engine #heard #into

Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual. Texas may be the one place where people actually still have bootstraps, and we expect folks to pull themselves up by them. But we also recognize there are some things we can't do alone. We have to come together and invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. ↗

— Julian Castro

#alone #also #believe #bootstraps #come