Shoes Quotes - Page 39

• Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

  Plutarch

  Gout, Tiaras, Fine

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• It doesn't matter how fast or how far you're going. If you're putting on your shoes and going out for a run, you are a runner, you are in that club.

  Kara Goucher

  Running, Going Out, Clubs

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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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• There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found uniformly is you get rid of the shoes, you get rid of the stress, you get rid of the injuries and the ailments.

  Christopher McDougall

  Motivation, Stress, Inspiration

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• Love was like rain: it turned into ice, or it disappeared. Now you saw it, now you couldn't find it no matter how hard you might search. Love evaporated; obsession was realer; it hurt, like a pin in your bottom, a stone in your shoe. It didn't go away in the blink of an eye. A morning phone call filled with regret. A letter that said, Dear you, good-bye from me. Obsession tasted like something familiar. Something you'd known your whole life. It settled and lurked; it stayed with you.

  Alice Hoffman

  Broken Heart, Hurt, Morning

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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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• 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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• 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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• You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.

  Samuel Johnson

  Teaching, Men, World

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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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• I love hats, shoes, outfits, handbags, and ethnic jewelery.

  Soundarya

  Handbags, Hats, Outfits

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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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• In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Horse, Space, Scene

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard and steady - instead of speeding up and slowing down, reacting to the terrain with changes of pace and rhythm.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Pace, Slow Down

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• Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he'll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas "Fscking" Edison.

  Neal Stephenson

  Design, Looks, Politics

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• When soulmates come and go, you're never alone, even when you're standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you.

  Tori Amos

  Soulmate, Comes And Goes, Standing

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• People get nervous accessorising, but there is nothing wrong with adding a belt or a pair of shoes in another colour.

  Carolina Herrera

  People, Pairs, Nervous

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• It's safe to assume that no matter where you stand, someone would be happy to be in your shoes, just as you'd be happy to be in someone else's.

  Scott Berkun

  Would Be, Safe, Matter

  Scott Berkun (2009). “Confessions of a Public Speaker”, p.35, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• I just think it's great to show a gown that's $8,000 and a shoe that's, like, $25-but still look fabulous together.

  Christian Siriano

  Thinking, Together, Gowns

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• You don't need a guidebook to see New Orleans - just a good pair of shoes.

  James Carville

  New Orleans, Needs, Pairs

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• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  Ornette Coleman

  Mother, Shining, Made

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