Shoes Quotes - Page 17

• Charles could care less about shoes - and he suspected he wasn't alone among men in his feelings. Shoe, no shoe, he didn't care. Naked was good, though over the past couple of weeks he was beginning to think that dressed in his clothes was a decent second best.

  Patricia Briggs

  Couple, Past, Men

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.91, Penguin

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• Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.

  Stephen King

  Stars, Moon, Dancing

  Stephen King (2016). “The Long Walk”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel like Snow White because now I have a bunch of little dwarf friends who love me. I may not know how Scout's overalls feel but I think I know how Snow White's Shoes feel because now I know why Snow White was happy.

  Kathryn Erskine

  Thinking, Dwarves, White

  Kathryn Erskine (2012). “Mockingbird”, p.52, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• I don't know anything about press conferences." "Oh, just Google it. I'm sure someone's written an article on holding a successful one. I mean, if the President can manage it, I'm sure you can. He looks like he can barely tie his shoes without help.

  Cory Doctorow

  Mean, Successful, Ties

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.230, Macmillan

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• Further, Dr. Gold said with a straight face, the pill at optimum dosage could have the side effect of impotence. Until that moment, although I'd had some trouble with his personality, I had not thought him totally lacking in perspicacity; now I was not all sure. Putting myself in Dr. Gold's shoes, I wondered if he seriously thought that this juiceless and ravaged semi-invalid with the shuffle and the ancient wheeze woke up each morning from his Halcion sleep eager for carnal fun.

  William Styron

  Morning, Fun, Sleep

  William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.31, Open Road Media

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• Sounds like you've got it all planned out." "Honey, I've got more plans than Wes has ugly shoes." "And that's a lot." I laugh. "It sure is," she says with a sigh.

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Laughing, Sound, Ugly

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• I had no shoes and I pitied myself. Then I met a man who had no feet, so I took his shoes.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Men

  Dave Barry (1985). “Dave Barry's Stay Fit and Healthy Until You're Dead”, p.60, Rodale

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• I was still wearing my shoes. The staff was paid to wash the sheets after every visit, and by the point we left the field, I’d dressed and undressed so many times in the course of decontamination that I never wanted to remove my clothes again. I’d just wear them until they dissolved, and then spend the rest of my life naked.

  Mira Grant

  Clothes, Naked, Fields

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.

  Jasper Fforde

  Fall, One Day, Toes

  Jasper Fforde (2011). “One of our Thursdays is Missing: Thursday Next”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

  Stephen King

  Eggs, Tree, Splits

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• In the end, I take my shoes off and stick my feet in, letting the lukewarm water lick at my ankles. It feels good, and not just because I’m stoned. I make a mental note to add this to Dulcie’s list of things worth living for. For some reason, I keep seeing her rolling her eyes at me, that big, goofy grin stretching her face like Silly Putty. On my private list, I add her smile. She doesn’t have to know.

  Libba Bray

  Silly, Eye, Feet

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.249, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like mad through a field of stubble, one shoe one, one shoe off, a man named Corn Cob pursuing her hotly. Wherever she is I am standing in complete darkness; her absence blots me out.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Lying, Book

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Ties, Unattractive, Dull

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• It's like one of those scenes from a feel-good Hollywood movie. Where everybody is happy and nobody's hair fizzes in the wind. Where it doesn't rain, your shoes stay comfortable all day, and everybody's jokes are funny.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Rain, Hair, Wind

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• Amelie had on black pants, a black zip-up hoodie, andrunning shoes. So wrong.

  Rachel Caine

  Black, Pants, Zips

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Carpe Corpus”, p.31, Allison & Busby

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• Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them.

  Jennifer Egan

  Hippie, Hair, Feet

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.31, Anchor

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• You mostly.” Her hands went still again as her eyes stared off into the past with a look so wistful it made me ache for her. “The boys tended to take care of each other but you were too much for anyone else to handle.” I poked at the ball of yarn avoiding her eyes. “I wasn’t that bad.” She smiled. “You broke Ethan’s arm.” “It was self-defense. He wouldn’t let go of my foot.” “He was helping you tie your shoe.

  Rachel Vincent

  Letting Go, Eye, Boys

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Stray”, p.132, MIRA

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• It's a miracle I was able to get out of the house today. It's a miracle I'm even wearing pants, a double miracle I remembered to wear shoes.

  Lauren Oliver

  House, Miracle, Able

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• See you just don’t understand women the way I do J.D. They want it all: a career apple martinis financial independence great shoes but at the same time—and this they’ll never admit—they are drawn to patriarchal men who are dominant and controlling. That’s the essence of the Darcy complex. He may be an asshole but he’s an asshole that gets the girl in the end.

  Julie James

  Girl, Men, Apples

  Julie James (2009). “Practice Makes Perfect”, p.151, Penguin

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• You shouldn't judge someone until you've walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes

  Ally Carter

  Tunnels, Judging, Miles

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Country, Growing, Corn

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.35, Penguin

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• I've determined the ideal job for me is one where I can write clever essays about my life and my employer will give me enough money not only to live a comfortable existence, but also to buy many, many new pairs of shoes.

  Jen Lancaster

  Jobs, Clever, Writing

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• When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the plants and whether they're getting enough water and if their roots are deep enough. Soil under the fingernails, grapes being trampled under bare feet, fingers sticky from handling fresh fruit. It's that green stripe you get around the sole of your shoes when you mow the lawn. Life in the age to come. Earthy.

  Rob Bell

  Roots, Feet, Water

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• If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew. And you must sew my holey socks, And soothe my troubled mind, And develop the knack for scratching my back, And keep my shoes spotlessly shined. And while I rest you must rake up the leaves, And when it is hailing and snowing You must shovel the walk...and be still when I talk, And-hey-where are you going?

  Shel Silverstein

  Snow, Perfect, Mind

  Shel Silverstein, “My Rules”

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• There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you're already doing to harm yourself...You are never going to amount to anything. You will always be the worthless muck people scrape from their shoes. You only get one life and you are wasting yours. That's a terrible shame. I doubt you will ever know what it is to be truly happy, to achieve anything of worth, to have genuine pride in yourself. You bring it all on yourself, and I could do no worse to you.

  Terry Goodkind

  Pride, People, Doubt

  Terry Goodkind (2010). “Faith of the Fallen”, p.522, Macmillan

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