Shoes Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• Well I ain't Dr. Phil, but I'm smart," she said. "And your shoes are cuter than his," I said, trying to sound at least semi-normal. "Yeah they remind me of Dorothy's ruby slippers, only mine are wedges 'cause I'm more fashion conscious than she was.

  P. C. Cast

  Fashion, Smart, Dr Phil

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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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• When I was about 14 or 15, and running in a pretty muddy cross country race, one of my shoes stuck in the mud and came off. Boy, was I wild. To think that I had trained hard for this race and didn't do up my shoelace tightly enough! I really got aggressive with myself, and I found myself starting to pass a lot of runners. As it turned out, I improved something like twenty places in that one race. But I never did get my shoe back.

  Robert de Castella

  Country, Running, Boys

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• Being a star requires risk-taking shoes.

  Sarah Dessen

  Stars, Risk, Risk-taking

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• I've always been a daydreamer, and sometimes in lessons my mind would drift and I'd imagine that on the way home a terrorist might jump out and shoot me on those steps. I wondered what I would do. Maybe I'd take off my shoes and hit him, but then I'd think if I did that there would be no difference between me and a terrorist. It would be better to plead, 'OK, shoot me, but first listen to me. What you are doing is wrong. I'm not against you personally, I just want every girl to go to school.'

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Powerful, School

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• How many there are who still say, 'I want to see His shape, His image, His clothing, His sandals.' Behold, you do see Him, you touch Him, you eat Him! You want to see His clothing. He gives Himself to you, not just to be seen but to be touched, to be eaten, to be received within .... Let all of you be ardent, fervent, enthusiastic. If the Jews stood, shoes on, staff in hand, and eating in haste, how much more vigilant should you be. They were about to go to Palestine; ... you are about to go to heaven.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Hands, Giving, Heaven

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• Reyes leaned back against the bar, crossed his arms over his chest, and studied me from beneath those same ridiculously long lashes. Men and their freaking lashes. It was so unfair. Like the exorbitant cost of designer shoes. Or world hunger.

  Darynda Jones

  Men, Long, Bars

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.401, St. Martin's Press

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• It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with every draught in the house; people brought it home on their shoes, they breathed it in off their newspapers. There was no way to control it.

  Zadie Smith

  Home, Air, People

  "On Beauty". Book by Zadie Smith, 2005.

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• With Parkinson's, it's like you're in the middle of the street and you're stuck there in cement shoes and you know a bus is coming at you, but you don't know when. You think you can hear it rumbling, but you have a lot of time to think. And so you just don't live that moment of the bus hitting you until it happens. There's all kinds of room in that space.

  Michael J. Fox

  Thinking, Space, Hitting

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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• All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say fiction can't be thoughtful, or present some interesting or provocative ideas to make us think. But if you want to present an intellectual argument, nonfiction is a better tool. You can drive a nail with a shoe but a hammer is a better tool for that. But fiction is about emotional resonance, about making us feel things on a primal and visceral level.

  George R. R. Martin

  Writing, Successful, Thinking

  "A conversation with Game of Thrones author George RR Martin". Interview, www.smh.com.au. August 1, 2011.

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• It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.

  Rick Yancey

  Crush, Cockroaches, Way

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.16, Penguin

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