Heels Quotes - Page 22

• If it is true, as used to be said, that oversalting means the cook is in love, at least one cook at Le Cirque must be head over heels.

  Mimi Sheraton

  Mean, Cooking, Used

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• The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.

  Avery Brundage

  Inspirational, Men, Yards

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• The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Thinking, Eagles, Wings

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• All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.

  Jo Nesbo

  Hero, Interesting, Achilles

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• All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Girl, Artist, High Heels

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• It's very important with an artificial leg that all high heels are exactly the same height.

  Heather Mills

  High Heels, Important, Legs

  "From Lady Mucca ... to Mrs Whippy". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2009.

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• There's nothing like a good pair of heels.

  Bridget Moynahan

  Pairs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.

  Evan Davis

  Luxury, Healthy, Elements

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• My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, 'Where's the fun? Where's the glamour?

  Billy Idol

  Dad, Fun, Rocks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?

  Walker Percy

  Discovery, May, Way

  Walker Percy (1988). “The moviegoer”

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• Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels.... Such is the real nature of horses.

  Zhuangzi

  Horse, Real, Wind

  Zhuangzi, Herbert Allen Giles (1909). “Teachings and Sayings of Chuang Tzu”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• Giving up my heels was harder than giving up the drugs.

  Donatella Versace

  Giving Up, Drug, Harder

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• I'm done growing. I only grow when I put my high heels on now.

  Maria Sharapova

  High Heels, Done, Growing

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• Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or heels, the measurement of mass and motion, the calibration of brutal blows, the counting of supplies; and spiritual knowing, invisibly felt by the inside self, who is but a fought-over field of distraction, a stage where we recite the monotonous monologue that is our life, a knowing governed by internal tides, by intimations, motives, resolutions, by temptations, secrecy, shame, and pride.

  William H. Gass

  Spiritual, Knowledge, Pride

  William H. Gass (1997). “Finding a Form: Essays”, p.179, Cornell University Press

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• First of all, most traders don't have a winning strategy. Second, even among those traders who do, many don't follow their strategy. Trading puts pressure on weaker human traits and seems to seek out each individual's Achilles' heel.

  Gil Blake

  Winning, Pressure, Firsts

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• I always wear high heels.

  Emily Procter

  High Heels

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• I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  High Heels, Honest, Introvert

  "Portrait of the artist: Natasha Bedingfield, singer". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2007.

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• Keep your heels, head & standards high!

  Coco Chanel

  Standards

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• I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad.

  Lara Stone

  High Heels, Terrible

  Interview with Marc Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 19, 2010.

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• In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.

  Bill Gross

  Doors, Icons, Might

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• My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering.

  Bob Dylan

  Reality, Hands, Waiting

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing has man invented yet that will do a better job than heels at making a good pair of legs look great, or great ones look fabulous.

  Stuart Weitzman

  Jobs, Men, Looks

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• I was born in high heels and I've worn them ever since.

  Helena Christensen

  High Heels, Born, Worn

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• As a child I trained myself to dance in very high heels. At 13, in Destiny's Child, we were told to wear heels, but at first we couldn't walk in them. We couldn't keep our knees straight, but we learned.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Children, Destiny, High Heels

  "Beyoncé Talks Fashion" by Lynn Hirschberg, www.wmagazine.com. July 1, 2010.

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• Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.

  Vivienne Westwood

  High Heels, Shoes, Pedestal

  "Vivienne Westwood coup for north east museum" by Helen Carter, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2011.

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