Boots Quotes - Page 10

• A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Lying, Society

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• The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has heenterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Men, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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• Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.

  Christian Bale

  Shoes, Imagination, Trying

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 15, 2004.

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• There was a photo of me with weird sunglasses on and a green sweatshirt, some striped thing, with tights and cowboy boots...I just saw that photo and thought, 'God, I look crazy.'

  Mary-Kate Olsen

  Fashion, Crazy, Cowboy

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• It takes a truly cool girl to pull off short-shorts and rain boots.

  Peter Som

  Girl, Fashion, Rain

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• This big dog will fight when you rattle his cage
  And you'll be sorry that you messed with
  The U.S. of A.
  'Cause we'll put a boot in your ass
  It's the American way.

  Toby Keith

  Dog, Sorry, Fighting

  "Song: 'Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue'". 2002.

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• The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born into wealthier families. You know, it's great to tell kids to pull themselves up by their own boot straps, but you better put boots on them first.

  Paul Houston

  Kids, Justice, Diversity

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• Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Coffee, Tea, Doe

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1850). “The Kickleburys on the rhine: By M. A. Titmarsh”, p.9

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• We had a death pact, and I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby in my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye.

  Sid Vicious

  Goodbye, Baby, Suicidal

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• There was always talk of espirit de corps, of being gung ho, and that must have been a part of it. Better, tougher training, more marksmanship on the firing range, the instant obedience to orders seared into men in boot camp.

  James Brady

  Military, Marine, Men

  James Brady (2007). “The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea”, p.9, Macmillan

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• No one did what I did last season and for this, I deserve the Golden Boot and why not the best World Player award?

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Sports, Player

  "Big game star or flat-track bully: Does Cristiano Ronaldo deliver in the big games?". www.mirror.co.uk. June 27, 2012.

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• 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.

  Horace

  Travel, Shoes, Feet

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• As far as I'm concerned there shouldn't be a single boot on the ground. There's enough American blood in Iraq that lasts forever.

  Harry Reid

  Military, Blood, Iraq

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• What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Men, Wind

  1592 Edward. Henry VI PartThree, act 4, sc.4, l.31-2.

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• I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.

  Mickey Rooney

  Shoes, Use, Walks

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• The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into one ugly boot that fits nobody.

  John Taylor Gatto

  School, Personality, Style

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• For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.

  Philip Pullman

  Long, Titles, Poet

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• I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint our toenails hardened. Our favorite videos gathered dust. Her small apron was in a box in the attic. Her shoes - the sparkly ones, the leopard rain boots, the ballet slippers - stood in a corner.

  Ann Hood

  Daughter, Mother, Rain

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• I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Woolly jumpers, Wellington boot, scarves, thin first, then thick, socks. The low slanting light, the crisp mornings, the chill in my fingers, those last warm sunny days before the rain and the wind. Her moody hues and subdued palate punctuated every now and again by a brilliant orange, scarlet or copper goodbye. She is my true love.

  Alys Fowler

  Summer, Goodbye, Morning

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• I remind you again we had those elections [in Afghanistan and Iraq] because we had boots on the ground and we had people that could help people, and we had people on the ground that could get into somebody's face when they had to, and do whatever was required.

  Peter Schoomaker

  Military, Iraq, People

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• The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem ("It's simple; it's broke.") to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Real, Moving, Science

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• And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Men, People

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame of the hearth, the black cooking pots and pans and stoves. Was it a mourning? Was it protective coloration? Was it mere depression of the senses? No matter what the original color of the paleotechnic milieu might be it was soon reduced by reason of the soot and cinders that accompanied its activities, to its characteristic tones, grey, dirty-brown, black.

  Lewis Mumford

  Dirty, Heart, Science

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.163, University of Chicago Press

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• I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.

  Barry Venison

  Soccer, Football, Intellectual

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• Back in my time, and I sound old now, it was black and white boots and that was it. Now you've got snoods, people wearing headphones when they are doing interviews, which I find disrespectful, pink boots, green boots, you name it they've got it, tights - they'll be wearing skirts next.

  Paul Ince

  Football, Black And White, Names

  "Notts County's Paul Ince slams modern football trends". "Late Kick Off Midlands" with Dan Walker, news.bbc.co.uk. Februry 28, 2011.

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