Quotes with shoes

  • Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
  • When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world.
  • I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes - and the stars through his soul.
  • In high school I had some famously egregious fashion missteps. I was really out there in fashion, I think because I wanted attention. I would wear crazy patterns, skin-tight pants and giant platform shoes.
  • Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
  • Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.
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  • Jonathan Swift The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Andrew Matthews A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
    Andrew Matthews
    Australian speaker and author of self-help books (1957 - )
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  • Caroline Winberg A lot of American guys wear really wide legged jeans and square shoes. Then they come to Sweden and think my friends are gay because they're wearing 'really tight jeans'. It's called 'fitted!'
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  • Thomas Carlyle A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without samādhi.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Casey Affleck All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some frequent bathhouses in groups. Some don't show each other the soles of their shoes or like pictures taken of them. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Lewis Carroll And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Aberjhani Art, rightly applied, provided humanity with the symbols, insight, and vicarious experience necessary to help one person place him- or herself in the shoes of another, and by so doing come to appreciate the commonality of human experience.
    The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003)
    Aberjhani
    American historian, columnist and novelist (1957 - )
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  • Branch Rickey Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything 'even spikes on a new pair of shoes' but they will eventually... they are bound to.
    In 1954
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Beryl Bainbridge Being constantly with the children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.
    Injury Time ch. 4, pp. 41-42.
    Beryl Bainbridge
    English writer (1932 - 2010)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Bernice Fitz-Gibbon Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
    Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
    American advertising executive
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  • Bernice Fitz-Gibbon Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
    Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
    American advertising executive
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Marilyn Monroe Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Ann Rule Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
    Ann Rule
    American author of true crime books (0 - 2015)
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  • William Ellery Channing He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • John Williamson He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.
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  • Bliss Carman Here's to the day when it is May
    And care as light as a feather,
    When your little shoes and my big boots
    Go tramping over the heather.
    A Toast
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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