Shoes Quotes - Page 34

• My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.

  Nate Ruess

  Fashion, Girlfriend, Collaboration

  "Fun's Nate Ruess on Black Tie and Band Fashion". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 29, 2012.

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• When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten; when the belt fits, the belly is forgotten; when the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten. There is no change in what is inside, no following what is outside, when the adjustment to events is comfortable. One begins with what is comfortable and never experiences what is uncomfortable, when one knows the comfort of forgetting what is comfortable.

  Zhuangzi

  Heart, Feet, Contentment

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• I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  My Own, I Can

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.222, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Family, Cousin, Aunt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Specialization, Good Shoes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2666, Delphi Classics

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• If you never want to see the face of hell, when you come home from work every night, dance with your kitchen towel and, if you're worried about waking up your family, take off your shoes.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Dance, Home, Night

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• 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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• I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat.

  Fergie

  Fashion, Weekend, Feet

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• Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.

  Fergie

  Fashion, Reading, Responsibility

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• 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.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Meditation, Grace

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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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• The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Height, Contradictory

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• Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance.

  Barbara Holland

  Roots, Good Times, Pleasure

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• I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.

  Paula Poundstone

  Silly, Paper, Toilets

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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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• The 'Tarahumara' use their legs 'as designed.' By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best biomechanical use of their legs. Cushioned shoes restrict foot movements and allow for over-striding. Short strides are natural.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Feet, Age

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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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• Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime.

  Susan Faludi

  Fashion, War, Sweaters

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• Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author, and he has shifty eyes and funny shoes and he won't talk about anything except the injustice of the United States income tax structure toward people with fluctuating income, or how to breed Black Angus cows, or something.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Writing, Eye

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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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• People are lonely, and only animals with fancy shoes.

  Jack Johnson

  Lonely, Sadness, Animal

  Song: The Horizon Has Been Defeated, Album: On And On

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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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• I have huge hands and feet. I'm 5'6" and wear a size 10 shoe.

  Ellen Barkin

  Hands, Feet, Size

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• Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?

  Algernon Sidney

  Hurt, Makers, Made

  Algernon Sidney (1698). “Discourses Concerning Government, by Algernon Sidney ... Published from an Original Manuscript of the Author”, p.9

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• It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating. If a woman wears a high-heeled shoe it changes the apparent musculature of the leg so that you get an effect of twanging sinew, of tension needing to be released. Her bottom sticks out like an offering. At the same time, the lofty perch is an expression of vulnerability, she is effectively hobbled and unable to escape. There is something arousing about this declaration that she is prepared to sacrifice function for form.

  Stephen Bayley

  Fashion, Sacrifice, Offering

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