Shoes Quotes - Page 28

• All women are troublemakers who take the money their husbands need desperately for a new and better speaker, and selfishly squander it on things like shoes for the children, homogenized milk, or perhaps A SECOND DRESS!

  Stan Freberg

  Children, Husband, Dresses

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• The most tragic moment of my life was the first show I ever designed for. I had been asked to make shoes for Ossie Clark's show in the early '70s. I was so inexperienced that I didn't put the steel in the heels of the shoes, which is required to support the shoe and the wearer. So the girls came out walking very strangely in these rubber, bendy high-heeled shoes I had made. I thought 'Oh dear god! This is the end of me.' But after the show, even David Hockney and Cecil Beaton said to me 'It was so interesting that the girls were moving in such a different way.'

  Manolo Blahnik

  Girl, Moving, Interesting

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• To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.

  Eli Pariser

  People, Important, Identity

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• Society? Can we trust us? Doubt it. We're probably not even real, as was revealed in the popular documentary The Matrix. That bloke next door? Made of pixels. Your co-workers? Pixels. You? One pixel. One measly pixel. You haven't even got shoes, for Christ's sake.

  Charlie Brooker

  Real, Doors, Doubt

  "The very fabric of society is breaking down around us. What the hell is there left to believe in?" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2009.

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• I'm an avid shoe fan. I got my first pair of Louboutins as a birthday gift from Jami Gertz.

  Toks Olagundoye

  Avid, Fans, Louboutins

  "Toks Olagundoye of 'The Neighbors': 23 Things You Don't Know", abcnews.go.com.

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• It was much later that I realized Dad's secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked and listened to a bishop or a college president. He was seriously interested in who you were and what you had to say.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Dad, Spring, Kids

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (2000). “Respect: An Exploration”, p.4, Basic Books

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• The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.

  Christian Louboutin

  Rays, Social

  "Sole Mate". Interview with Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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• You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

  Dorothea Lange

  People, Cameras, Body

  Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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• A jump shot can get you a shoe deal, a big house, a supermodel, fancy cars, a bunch of yes men, a Swiss bank account. But none of these things can get you a jump shot

  Allen Iverson

  Men, Fancy Cars, House

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• Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the plow through its furrows, or classed with idiots, lunatics and criminals in the laws and constitutions of the State, the principle is the same; for the humiliations of the spirit are as real as the visible badges of servitude.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Real, Law, Iron

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr

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• We are not for making shoes, so the shoemakers can have jobs, but so we can wear the shoes.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Jobs

  Blog of Janusz Korwin-Mikke, April 29, 2009.

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• She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; but that a woman who wears ankle-strap shoes and smokes on the street corner, though she may be a joy to all who know her and have devoted her life to charity, could never qualify as a lady.

  Judith Martin

  Husband, Smoking, Joy

  Judith Martin (1990). “Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under your eyes, your hair getting straight and lanky, the way people look at you. ... I didn't think it would be like this

  Jean Rhys

  Eye, Thinking, Hair

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• Who would you vote most likely to succeed? Bob Arum - White, Jewish, a graduate of Harvard, a Kennady Raider, United States Attorney. Don King - black, poor, out of the hard core getto of Cleveland, Ohio, numbers runner, a little confectionary dealer, ex-convict. Now who would you vote to succeed? It would be hands down........ Yet in this great land called America, I have out performed, outachieved, been more recognizable, did more, broke more records, and had more of a phenominal career, where Arum can't tie my shoe string. You understand?

  Don King

  Kings, Careers, White

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• I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.

  Neal Shusterman

  Hair, Color, Want

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnSouled”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Dad, Years, Ballet

  "Exclusive: My lover by Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. July 5, 2005.

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• Yes no yes no yes no? Red blue? Yes red, no blue? No red, yes no? In out, up down? Do don't, can can't? Choices sit on the shelf life New shoes in a shoe shop. If the in crowd are squeezing into a must-have shoe And the one pair left are too tiny for you Don't feel compelled into choosing them If you're really a size 9, buy that size. While everyone else Hobbles round with sore feet Your choices should feel comfortable Or they aren't your choices at all. Why limp when you can sprint

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Blue, Feet, Choices

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• I believe in keeping running simple and, in regard to shoes, that would mean no gimmicks, unnecessary cushioning, etc

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Believe, Mean

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• Hearing the sound of your breathing as you sleep,
  with the dog at your feet, his head resting
  on a shoe, and the clock's ticking
  like water dripping in a sink - I know that, even if reincarnation were a fact,
  given the inherent cruelty of the world
  where beautiful things and people
  are blasted apart all the day long,
  I would never want to come back, knowing
  I could never be this lucky twice.

  Bruce Dawe

  Beautiful, Dog, Sleep

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• Upon retiring, sleep as if you had entered your last sleep. Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast away a pair of old shoes.

  Soyen Shaku

  Sleep, Lasts, Pairs

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• Buying shoes is the highest form of shopping.

  Mimi Pond

  Shopping, Buying, Form

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• Seriously. Who needed a real lover when you had a handsome, affectionate man who adored you, put a beautiful house over your head, gave you a great job, lavished you with fabulous clothes, shoes, purses and jewelry and would never break your heart?

  Kristen Ashley

  Beautiful, Jobs, Real

  Kristen Ashley (2012). “Play it Safe”, p.123, Rock Chick LLC

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• A great pair of shoes can make a $20 outfit look like couture, and a poorly constructed pair of shoes can make couture look like a cheap knockoff.

  Nina Garcia

  Looks, Pairs, Knockoffs

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• If you can't be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else.

  Simon Baker

  Proud, Ifs, Sells

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• You're invited to tons of parties, and you'll wear these shoes and that dress, and it can be enticing, but I think it also sucks you dry. If you do it a little, sure, it's fun, but too much and you start to lose your footing.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Fun, Party, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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