Leather Shoes Quotes

• In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Meat Eating, Shoes, Clothes

  "Fashion Designer Karl Lagerfeld Defends Fur: Kill 'Beasts' Before They Kill Us". www.foxnews.com. January 3, 2009.

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• Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Pain, Self

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. It pleased me to think they would be perched there on the silver log, pointing out to sea, like a sort of soul-compass, after I was dead.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, Sea, Shoes

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.113, Faber & Faber

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• Occasionally I like a really good pair of shoes. A pair of leather shoes from Gieves & Hawkes in England, Buckshot Brogue, they look really sick.

  Ian Astbury

  Shoes, Sick, England

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Shoes, Survival, Cows

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• I'm so excited about school. I'm such a shameless student. I laid my clothes out last night, just like I did before my first day of first grade, with my patent leather shoes and my new lunch box. I hope the teacher will like me :)

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Teacher, School, Night

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.44, A&C Black

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• Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Shoes, Soul, Steel

  Scott Westerfeld (2007). “The Last Days”, p.85, Penguin

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• In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it on the leather like I would a shoe wax. Then I spit-shine it and buff it with a cloth, and my shoes look great.

  Chris Diamantopoulos

  Shoes, Shining, Needs

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