High Heels famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!
-- Aimee Mullins -
I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.
-- Alice Eve -
I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy.
-- Amy Adams -
I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels - and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness.
-- Ana Gasteyer -
At least once in their life, every man should feel what it's like to wear high heels.
-- Andrew W.K. -
My job involves a lot of sitting on aeroplanes and a lot of walking in high heels! I find yoga helps with both.
-- Anja Rubik -
A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
-- Arnold Bennett -
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
-- Arthur Erickson -
I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
-- Barber Conable -
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
-- Bertolt Brecht -
I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
-- Bette Davis -
I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for a function.
-- Britt Ekland -
All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.
-- Bryan Ferry -
The unwearable of high heels is self-evidently all around us, coming to a head at the average wedding reception, a uniformly high-heeled occasion. In our minds, we see it as a serene and elegant gathering of women in their finest, one of the big chances of the year to pretend you're at the Oscars, in your stilettos. In actuality of course, ... there are women staggering around in the unaccustomed vertical, foot-flesh spilling over tight, unkind satin.
-- Caitlin Moran -
Always wear high heels. Yes, they give you power. you move differently, sit differently and even speak differently.
-- Carine Roitfeld -
I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.
-- Carine Roitfeld -
One of the big misconceptions about me is that I walk around in mini-skirts and high heels twenty-four seven and go to the gym in heels.
-- Carmen Electra -
There are only two secrets to a slimmer shape ... High heels and shoulder pads!
-- Cathy Guisewite -
Put a pair of high heels on a fellow and just look what he was reduced to.
-- Celeste Bradley -
you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with ***** that forgot to get old.
-- Charles Bukowski -
If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.
-- Charlize Theron -
At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears high heels for herself but not for men.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.
-- Christian Louboutin -
For me there ain't no high heel high enough.
-- Christian Louboutin -
What is sexual in a high heel is the arch of the foot, because it is exactly the position of a woman's foot when she orgasms... So putting your foot in a heel, you are putting yourself in a possibly orgasmic situation.
-- Christian Louboutin -
People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don't want to create painful shoes, but it is not my job to create something comfortable. I try to make high heels as comfortable as they can be, but my priority is design, beauty and sexiness. I'm not against them, but comfort is not my focus.
-- Christian Louboutin -
People ask me all the time, 'How can I walk in these heels?' I answer with the best compliment I remember that came from a woman who lives here in Paris...I know my street much better. Heels permit me to take the time to look at the architecture of my street. Now I take time to look at things.' High heels give you time to think, to look at your surroundings- a camel has seen more in life than a very quick horse! Women should live to rhythm of high-heeled shoes!
-- Christian Louboutin -
I really have not so much sympathy. If Tina Turner and Prince's back-up band can perform on stage in them for three hours, you can't tell me they are impossible to walk in. High heels are pleasure with pain. If you can't walk in them, don't wear them.
-- Christian Louboutin -
I always wear high heels - I simply feel naked without them.
-- Donatella Versace -
When I'm wearing heels at events, my feet feel like they're sitting in pools of blood.
-- Elizabeth Olsen -
I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall. But I don't wear them any more because you don't have to wear heels to be beautiful. I can't even remember the last time I wore heels.
-- Elle Macpherson -
I'm Latina. I was born with high heels. We crossed border in high heels. We were running from immigration...I can do aerobics in heels.
-- Eva Longoria -
I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.
-- Florence Griffith Joyner -
I believe the defining moment was when certain persons, who shall remain nameless, objected to my fuchsia silk striped waistcoat. I loved that waistcoat. I put my foot down, right then and there; I do not mind telling you!" To punctuate his deeply offended feelings, he stamped one silver-and-pearl-decorated high heel firmly. "No one tells me what I can and cannot wear!" He snapped up a lace fan from where it lay on a hall table and fanned himself vigorously with it for emphasis.
-- Gail Carriger -
I like individuality in fashion - it annoys me when celebrities put on a bodycon dress and a pair of high heels and suddenly they are 'style icons.'
-- Georgie Henley -
Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
-- Germaine Greer -
I do everything the man does, only backwards and in high heels!
-- Ginger Rogers -
Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.
-- Gwen Stefani -
It's very important with an artificial leg that all high heels are exactly the same height.
-- Heather Mills -
High heels can literally raise your status because you're taller when you wear them.
-- Helen Fisher -
Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was naturally quite afro, and I wore low-slung jeans with very high heels. Siouxsie and the Banshees had a lot to answer for. I was in a top hat with peacock feathers and thigh-high black boots. I was 17 -- old enough to know better.
-- Helen McCrory -
I was born in high heels and I've worn them ever since.
-- Helena Christensen -
There never seems to be any trouble brewing around a bar until a woman puts that high heel over the brass rail. Don't ask me why, but somehow women at bars seem to create trouble among men.
-- Humphrey Bogart -
All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels.
-- Isaac Mizrahi -
I think if I could be any superhero, it'd probably be my mom...but I don't think I'd look too good in high heels, so it's not gonna happen.
-- Jason Behr -
My bikini, a pair of black high heels and a pair of comfortable jeans.
-- Joan Smalls -
Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state's economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more good jobs in West Virginia this system must be fixed and it must be fixed now. We cannot afford to wait even one more minute.
-- Joe Manchin -
I was the one who taught my sister and my niece how to walk in high heels.
-- John Barrowman -
We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.
-- John Howard -
At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.
-- John Millington Synge -
Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
-- John Selden -
We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.
-- John Spratt -
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
-- Joseph Stalin -
I still get butterflies when I'm doing a runway show. The music starts, you're wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.
-- Karlie Kloss -
I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city ,and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'
-- Kate Winslet -
I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
-- Katey Sagal -
I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
-- Katharine Hepburn -
I wear a lot of black, knitwear, skinny jeans and very high heels. My mum used to work for a fashion designer making knitwear, so she knits me lots of chunky scarves, hats and gloves, which I love.
-- Katie McGrath -
I would splurge on a great pair of high heels, because you can wear them to something fancy, but regular clothes? I'd rather go on a trip than spend $10,000 on clothes, and fly first class as a treat.
-- Keri Russell -
I, a woman, find wearing high heels agreeable only on the very rare occasion that (1) I will be ferried between destinations upon a palanquin or (2) I am going to a cocktail party and, at five feet two, don't want to spend the evening discussing the latest movies with somebody's nipples.
-- Lauren Collins -
There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after you have growth spurts or lose weight or stop wearing high heels. You keep fitting after you have children or change religions or stop dyeing your hair or quit your job at Goldman Sachs and take up farming. Somehow, God is gracious enough to give us a few of those people, people you can stretch into, people who don't go away, and whom you wouldn't want to go away, even if they offered.
-- Lauren F. Winner -
We shouldn't demonize the woman who wears high heels and we shouldn't demonize the woman who doesn't wear high heels. We should accept all forms of comportment.
-- Laverne Cox -
I think any woman can be transformed by a beautiful dress and high heels.
-- Linda Gray -
I knew immediately that this was not going to work out. Hunter is the kind of guy who dates women who wear high heels and a cocktail dress on a first date. I can't even walk in heels, and I generally believe that someone has to earn the right to see my legs.
-- Lisa Lutz -
Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe.
-- Lita Ford -
Men sucked. They were the root of every problem any woman could ever have. They were the reason for bras, the need for makeup, hair stylists, shaving legs, and high heels that made the arch feel like it had a steel rod slammed up it. They were picky, arrogant, argumentative, and so damned certain of themselves <...>.
-- Lora Leigh -
Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women's clothes are SO revealing - Ladies you have my respect.
-- Lou Diamond Phillips -
These are very confusing times. For the first time in history a woman is expected to combine: intelligence with a sharp hairdo, a raised consciousness with high heels, and an open, nonsexist relationship with a tan guy who has a great bod.
-- Lynda Barry -
People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.
-- Manolo Blahnik -
The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men could do things like that. "Half a mile." "Fifty yards." Giving directions, that sort of thing. I could look at a woman and say "Thirty-six C." Or "Let's try it in the next size up." But I had no idea how far away Tim's sea was except that I wouldn't want to walk to it in high heels.
-- Marian Keyes -
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
-- Marilyn Monroe -
When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often.
-- Meg Ryan -
They asked me why I was wearing heels, and I said, I'm trying to hide my ass. They gave me a prosthetic behind.
-- Michael Rosenbaum -
Walking in high heels should be made an Olympic sport.
-- Mimi Pond -
I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.
-- Natasha Bedingfield -
I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
-- Nawal El Saadawi -
Actually... I'm starting a new thing and rebelling against ridiculously high heels. It's inhumane.
-- Nina Dobrev -
When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.
-- Pamela Stephenson -
I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.
-- Patty Duke -
It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.
-- Philip Gibbs -
I've always liked dressing up. And I love a high heel - the higher the better. I just feel funny in flats.
-- Rachel McAdams -
To look long and lean, wear a wide-leg trouser with high heels.
-- Rebecca Gayheart -
Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.
-- Richard Avedon -
It was just so elaborate and so luxurious. We had every gadget imaginable. You know, I had the little gun that came out, and I had the little gun in the heel of the shoe.
-- Robert Conrad -
What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients?
-- Sarah Chalke -
I think I'm probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing.
-- Sarah Wayne Callies -
Tell Ray to put the eyeliner, the lipstick and the high heels away. I'm not saying he's a cross-dresser, that's just what I heard.
-- Shannon Sharpe -
Personally, I don't really have a set style or look. It's pretty much what I feel like wearing that day, from a floral-print dress and high heels to ripped jeans and army boots.
-- Shay Mitchell -
When my kids are in college, maybe I'll drag my fishnets and high heels out.
-- Sheena Easton -
How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?
-- Sonia Rykiel
