Shoes Quotes - Page 19

• Being a star requires risk-taking shoes.

  Sarah Dessen

  Stars, Risk, Risk-taking

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• Reyes leaned back against the bar, crossed his arms over his chest, and studied me from beneath those same ridiculously long lashes. Men and their freaking lashes. It was so unfair. Like the exorbitant cost of designer shoes. Or world hunger.

  Darynda Jones

  Men, Long, Bars

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.401, St. Martin's Press

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• It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.

  Rick Yancey

  Crush, Cockroaches, Way

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.16, Penguin

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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

  Survival, Cows, Violence

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• I imagine the wave of water colliding with the rock and spilling over the tile floor, collecting around my shoes. Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but I feel like when you believe that something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can’t help yourself.

  Veronica Roth

  Believe, Rocks, Water

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• He bends over to untie his shoes. “So, have you been ostracized from your little crowd of devotees?” “No,” I say automatically. Then I add, “Maybe. But they aren’t my devotees.” “Please. They’re like the Cult of Four.” I can’t help but laugh. “Jealous? Wish you had a Cult of Psychopaths to call your very own?

  Veronica Roth

  Jealous, Laughing, Wish

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• I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes--new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase my choices. Especially these.

  Veronica Roth

  Tattoo, Blue, Jeans

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Allegiant (Divergent, Book 3)”, p.20, HarperCollins UK

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• I've always said the shoes must never tell the foot how big to be.

  Rick Warren

  Positive, Feet, Bigs

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• A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Horse, War

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• I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Break Up, Breakup

  Song: Positively 4th Street

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• If you hair is done properly and you're wearing good shoes, you can get anyway with anything.

  Iris Apfel

  Life, Beauty, Hair

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• Don't criticize what you can't understand, son. You never walked in that's man shoes.

  Elvis Presley

  Inspiring, Son, Men

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• When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Peace, Money

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• You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.

  Earl Hines

  Music, People, Shining

  Stanley Dance, Earl Hines (1983). “The World of Earl Hines”

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• The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock - full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat - like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I took such months to get.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Girl, Daughter, Father

  Phyllis McGinley (1968). “Wonders and surprises: a collection of poems”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age.

  Malcolm Cowley

  Glasses, Over You, Age

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• In the end we beat them with Levi's 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system...has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes. Now they're lunch, and we're number one on the planet.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Years, Jeans, Two

  "Thrown Under the Omnibus". Book by PJ O'Rourke, October 21, 2015.

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• For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person awaiting execution. To make it more immediate, he recommended imagining ourselves in their place. Particularly painful is his image of a mother with no arms watching as a raging river sweeps her child away. To contact the suffering of another being fully and directly is as painful as being in the woman's shoes.

  Pema Chodron

  Mother, Children, Animal

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes, so that I thought I would run more effectively.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Athlete, Track

  "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

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• Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.

  John Selden

  Friendship, Kings, Real

  'Table Talk' (1689) 'Friends'

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• I can't concentrate in flats.

  Victoria Beckham

  Fashion, Flats, I Can

  "'I Can't Concentrate in Flat Shoes,' Explains High-heel Addict Victoria Beckham". www.dailymail.co.uk. May 15, 2008.

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• And to the rest of the world
  God gave you shoes to fit you
  So put 'em on and wear 'em
  Be yourself man, be proud of who you are
  Even if it sounds corny
  Don't ever let anyone tell you you ain't beautiful

  Eminem

  Beautiful, Being Yourself, Rap

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• There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. The soul lives in sickly air. People can be slaveships in shoes.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Dream, Heart, Smell

  Zora Neale Hurston (1990). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, Harper Perennial

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• Any style that Nike makes in all black, shoe, sweatshirt, onesie, doesn't matter, I pretty much need to have.

  Alexander Wang

  Nike, Fashion, Black

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• Fashions fade, style is eternal. - Yves Saint-LaurentThe most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you've got to have a good spirit on the inside. That's what's really going to make you look like you're ready to rock the world. - Alicia KeysIt's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Clothes, Rocks

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