Slippers Quotes - Page 2

• Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Yarn, Clothes, Pjs

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• And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Phones, Careers

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.180, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.

  Theophile Gautier

  Fate, Hands, People

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• Nick, fetch my car, fetch my clothes, sweep the chimney, make my bed, watch my psychopath, fetch my slippers.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Clothes, Car, Bed

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.265, Macmillan

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• Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to the shop. That wainscot to the carpenter, But my mind my tranquil and eternal Mind Return it to whom?

  Jack Kerouac

  Life And Love, Father, Hands

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• Revolution? Unscrew the flag-staff, wrap the bunting in the oil covers, and put the thing in the clothes-chest. Let the old lady bring you your house-slippers and untie your fiery red necktie. You always make revolutions with your mugs, your republic--nothing but an industrial accident.

  Alfred Doblin

  Oil, Clothes, House

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• He had on bunny slippers. These had fangs. They all stared at them in silence for about a heartbeat, and then Shane said, "That is impressively wicked. Crazy, but wicked.

  Rachel Caine

  Crazy, Silence, Wicked

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• History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

  Voltaire

  Climbing, History, Boots

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• I lived with a guy who had OCD and I used to put Rice Krispies in his slippers before I went out. He went mental, but not before he counted them all.

  Russell Howard

  Funny, Humor, Guy

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• You've forgotten those June nights at the Riviera...the night I drank Champagne from your slipper - two quarts. It would have been more but you were wearing inner soles.

  Groucho Marx

  Wine, Night, June

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• If you have a weakness for furry slippers or something, you might end up with that kind of advertising. It's a very complicated algorithmic decision. There's no one dude who's deciding what ads are going with things, and it's very individualized also. And that's the idea of collecting information is that in theory, you're showing people things that they should want to see or for which they are a good target. So, no, there's no master person.

  Tim Wu

  Ideas, People, Decision

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.

  Michael Schur

  Thinking, Work Out, Leopards

  "Showrunner Michael Schur on building Parks And Recreation's fourth season". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. June 19, 2012.

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• Everything that belonged to her husband made her weep again: his tasseled slippers, his pajamas under the pillow, the space of his absence in the dressing table mirror, his own odor on her skin. A vague thought made her shudder: "The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Husband, Mirrors, Space

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• For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from a passing bus.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Girl, Glasses, Luck

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• I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.

  Julie Harris

  Rose, Lovely, Film

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• Like people love their tote, they love their initial bangle, they love their C. Wonder belts, they love their cardigans and their striped top, and I'm really happy to be bringing that back and helping people get their 'Bee Happy' smoking slippers again.

  Brad Goreski

  People, Smoking, Bees

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Bill O'Reilly is like a comfortable pair of shimmeringly angry slippers, but you know every night what you're going to get.

  Piers Morgan

  Night, Bills, Pairs

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• Yes, but the difference is that when you're dead and somebody yells, 'Everybody up, it's morning,' it's very hard to find your slippers.

  Woody Allen

  Morning, Differences, Hard

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.

  Richard Kadrey

  Ballet, World, Steel

  Richard Kadrey (2012). “Sandman Slim (Sandman Slim, Book 1)”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

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• I've never walked home wearing just a pink robe and a pair of slippers.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Home, Pairs, Robes

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.163, Hachette UK

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• There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.

  Mary Catherwood

  Mother, Men, Giving

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• The slippers of the mortal Earth, now touched the chest of the Moon. Oh, it is shameful that the misery of hunger is still continuing as it was in the past.

  Manmohan Acharya

  Past, Moon, Earth

  "Song of the Bumblebee". 2008.

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• My friends they were dancing here in the streets of Huntsville when our first satellite orbited the Earth. They were dancing again when the first Americans landed on the Moon. I'd like to ask you, don't hang up your dancing slippers.

  Wernher von Braun

  Future, Moon, Dancing

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• I live out in the desert, in farm country. I'm around a lot of farmers, guys with packing houses, that sort of thing. Half the time, these guys are in their pajamas or in their slippers. It's their place.

  William Devane

  Country, House, Guy

  "William Devane Respects the Text". Interview with Alex Simon, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2013.

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• If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a slipper? By the same token, why do we not believe that if innumerable letters of the Greek alphabet were poured all over the market-place they would eventually happen to form the text of the Iliad?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Believe, Science, House

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