Pairs Quotes - Page 38

• you don't need any [money] to do [Parkour], just a pair of good shoes and that's all.

  David Belle

  Shoes, Needs, Parkour

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• Nike actually has a pair of shoes called Air-Turbulence. Try getting past airline security wearing those. Might as well call them Air-Osama.

  Jay Leno

  Nike, Past, Air

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• A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.

  Roger Zelazny

  Powerful, Reading, Imagination

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• Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye.
  What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high,
  And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher,
  Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Eye, Fire, Feet

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.193, Hayes Barton Press

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• Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Cutting, Romance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• Think of the many different relations of form and content. E.g., the many pairs of trousers and what's in them.

  Mason Cooley

  Thinking, Different, Form

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• God created the first pair equal in rights, possessions, and authority. He bequeathed the earth to them as a joint inheritance; gave them joint dominion over the irrational creation; but none over each other.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Equality, Rights, Inheritance

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• One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up.

  H. L. Mencken

  Giving, Honest, Shut Up

  H. L. Mencken (2000). “H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism”, p.99, Regnery Publishing

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• I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of what were then called bicycle pants and taken to golf; it was as if I had encountered a studhorse with his hair done up in frizzes, and pink bowknots peeking out of them. It seemed, in some vague way, ignominious, and even a bit indelicate.

  H. L. Mencken

  Taken, Golf, Hair

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• The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns a pair of white shoes.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Gun, Shoes

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• With two sons born eighteen months apart, I operated mainly on automatic pilot through the ceaseless activity of their early childhood. I remember opening the refrigerator late one night and finding a roll of aluminum foil next to a pair of small red tennies. Certain that I was responsible for the refrigerated shoes, I quickly closed the door and ran upstairs to make sure I had put the babies in their cribs instead of the linen closet.

  Mary Blakely

  Baby, Son, Night

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Make the decision that you'll no longer use excuses to keep you from what you know is in your best interest. Today, act on something you've always avoided and explained away with a convenient excuse. Make a phone call you've been putting off, write a letter to a friend, put on a pair of walking shoes and go for a stroll, clean out your closet—do something you've been justifying not doing with excuses.

  Wayne Dyer

  Friends, Writing, Phones

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jul 17, 2012

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• She saw every personal religion as a pair of intersecting circles. . . . Probably perfection is reached when the area of the two outer crescents, added together, is exactly equal to that of the leaf-shaped piece in the middle. On paper there must be some neat mathematical formula for arriving at this; in life, none.

  Jan Struther

  Women, Circles, Two

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• I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Wings, Gold, Wish

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• Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues
  are called fools.

  William Shakespeare

  Tongue, Fool, Strange

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 4, l. [36]

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• It's better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones.

  Cary Grant

  Shoes, Four, Pair Of Shoes

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• And by the way, I would not only reappoint Greenspan; if Greenspan would happen to die, God forbid, I would do like they did in the movie 'Weekend at Bernie's.' I would prop him up and put a pair of dark glasses on him.

  John McCain

  Dark, Weekend, Glasses

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• Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.

  Walter Lippmann

  Mistake, Thinking, Feet

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• My wife a great driver, she once hit a deer. It was in a zoo. There is a pair of shoes on the dashboard. They belong to the last guy she hit

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Zoos, Humor

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• Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair oboots to fit him, unless they are either made to his measure, or he has a whole warehouseful to choose from: and is it easier to fit him with a life than with a coat, or are human beings more like one another in their whole physical and spiritual conformation than in the shape of their feet? If it were only that people have diversities of taste, that is reason enough for not attempting to shape them all after one model.

  John Stuart Mill

  Spiritual, Men, Sheep

  John Stuart Mill “Annotated On Liberty with English Grammar Exercises: by John Stuart Mill (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I'll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself. I'll walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America, because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner.

  Barack Obama

  Struggle, Shoes, White

  Msnbc live with Cenk Uygur, www.nbcnews.com. February 25, 2011.

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• If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Cat, Novelists

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• We have $70 and a pair of girl's underpants. We're safe as kittens.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Girl, Money, Safe

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• All a woman needs to be chic is a raincoat, two suits, a pair of trousers and a cashmere sweater

  Hubert de Givenchy

  Fashion, Two, Sweaters

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• The key to looking great in the evening is to look original. Try to look different from others without looking out of place. When everyone else is wearing black, stand out in a bold, bright color. When everyone else is wearing dress that falls to the floor, shock them with a short gold brocade suit. But try not to overdo it. Focus on one thing: Will it be a statement neckclace, a stunning pair of earrings, or really big hair? You decide.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Fashion, Fall, Hair

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