Shoes Quotes - Page 25

• Hopefully 10 years from now people won't even realize we started out selling shoes. They will just think about Zappos as a place to get the best customer service.

  Tony Hsieh

  Thinking, Years, People

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• I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.

  Wally Schirra

  Beautiful, Kids, Wings

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• Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.

  Tony Hsieh

  Company, Happens, Customers

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• I've always believed that a beautiful shoe is useless unless it feels as wonderful as it looks.

  Stuart Weitzman

  Beautiful, Looks, Useless

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• My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.

  Alexander Wang

  Mom, Would Be, Firsts

  "Alexander Wang: Fashion's Boy Wonder" by Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 11, 2011.

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• We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Baghdad

  "Lopez: Rockets can win with spin" by John P. Lopez, www.chron.com. April 15, 2003.

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• A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes. His face had on it some of the sadness of the ages. As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularized by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect was unforgettable.

  William Christopher Handy

  Sadness, Guitar, Knives

  William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

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• But countless studies have shown that a cue and a reward, on their own, aren't enough for a new habit to last. Only when your brain starts expecting the reward--craving the endorphins or sense of accomplishment--will it become automatic to lace up your jogging shoes each morning. The cue, in addition to triggering a routine, must also trigger a craving for the reward to come.

  Charles Duhigg

  Morning, Accomplishment, Brain

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• We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity.

  Layne Staley

  Kids, Eye, Hands

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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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• I spend most of my time wearing uncomfortable things, so for me, it's all about trainers.

  Cara Delevingne

  Uncomfortable, Trainers, My Time

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• I actually have more shoes than anyone will ever know.

  Tamara Mellon

  Knows

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2011.

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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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• Nicki Minaj has a better booty; but I have better shoes.

  Rihanna

  Booty

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• And to the rest of the world
  God gave you shoes to fit you
  So put 'em on and wear 'em
  Be yourself man, be proud of who you are
  Even if it sounds corny
  Don't ever let anyone tell you you ain't beautiful

  Eminem

  Beautiful, Being Yourself, Rap

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• There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. The soul lives in sickly air. People can be slaveships in shoes.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Dream, Heart, Smell

  Zora Neale Hurston (1990). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, Harper Perennial

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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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• Any style that Nike makes in all black, shoe, sweatshirt, onesie, doesn't matter, I pretty much need to have.

  Alexander Wang

  Nike, Fashion, Black

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• Fashions fade, style is eternal. - Yves Saint-LaurentThe most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you've got to have a good spirit on the inside. That's what's really going to make you look like you're ready to rock the world. - Alicia KeysIt's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Clothes, Rocks

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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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• You don't think about it at the time, but there are certain responsibilities that come with being the vicar's daughter. You're supposed to behave in a particular way. I shouldn't say it, but I probably was Goody Two Shoes.

  Theresa May

  Daughter, Mother, Responsibility

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

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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 embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.

  George Foreman

  Hurt, Thinking, Dust

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• I am reminded of a piece of advice my father gave me regarding shoes. ...He said it is better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones. One pair made of fine leather could outlast four inferior pairs and, if well-cared-for, would continue to proclaim your good judgment and taste no matter how old they become.

  Cary Grant

  Fashion, Father, Clothes

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• My shoes are size 2 and a 1/2, the same size as my feet

  Elaine Paige

  Funny, Feet, Dumb

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