Boots famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
-- A. J. Liebling -
I was very, very shocked about Cooperstown. I thought my chances were fairly good, but I tried to stay low key about it, not too high and not too low. That was the way I played, too.
-- Al Kaline -
Some players need a boot up their backside. Other players need the arm
-- Alan Brazil -
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots
-- Albert Einstein -
She wears high tech Devo suit, she changed her name to Xerox, she hides quaaludes in her boots.
-- Alice Cooper -
I wear Blundstones for hiking. They're like a work boot with a bit of grip, so you can wear them all day. They're quite groovy.
-- Anna Torv -
And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.
-- Anne Enright -
Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.
-- Annie Besant -
I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Skinny jeans are usually my go to jean. I do bootleg every once in a while, boyfriend jeans I feel like are so hard to pull off! Skinny jeans are very easy and you can kind of pair anything with them and it will work: heels and boots or nice top or flouncy top.
-- Ashley Greene -
It slid away from his left boot which was poised with the trigger cocked
-- Barry Davies -
I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.
-- Barry Venison -
Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.
-- Bernhard Langer -
If you don't got endz, you won't be gettin' no skinz, And if you don't got money, you won't scoop a honey. If you don't got cash, you won't be gettin' no ass, And if you don't got loot, you won't be knockin' no boots.
-- Big L -
The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.
-- Billy Higgins -
Unless I work with Shah Rukh my career cannot be complete. I can't hang my boots till that happens.
-- Bipasha Basu -
Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.
-- Bobby Darin -
I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I kind of got away from that for a while once we started happening, you know, selling records, sold out concerts.
-- Bootsy Collins -
Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.
-- Bootsy Collins -
We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.
-- Bootsy Collins -
I've thought maybe of getting younger artists out doing stuff, like I used to do a lot of. I don't wanna do it day in and day out like I used to, but I still wanna do it.
-- Bootsy Collins -
I wanna keep creating those situations for myself so I don't have to be out front all the time. Then when I do have to be out front, I can do it to the max.
-- Bootsy Collins -
Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.
-- Brian Bosworth -
Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
-- Brian Clough -
I've worn my share of leopard pink boots to premieres or belts the size of cars. I thought my pink leopard boots were so cool.
-- Brittany Snow -
Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.
-- Charles Babbage -
Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.
-- Charles Stuart Calverley -
If the shoe fits, it is probably worn out.
-- Craig Reucassel -
A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.
-- Dan Stevens -
The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.
-- David Lilienthal -
He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.
-- David Lloyd George -
So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.
-- Diane Lane -
Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.
-- Donald Rumsfeld -
Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.
-- Douglas Coupland -
As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the first place.
-- Edward Norton -
I like mixing things. I wear a lot of boots. Love boots. And then jeans, but I like to wear them with a really ruffly top. Or I love high-waisted anything.
-- Elle Fanning -
I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.
-- Fidel Castro -
I have 137 pairs of shoes and 200 pairs of jeans.
-- Frances Bean Cobain -
Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?
-- Frank Carson -
If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all consist of unmeaning bunches of notes, apparently representing the composer promenading the keyboard in his boots. Some can be played better with the elbows, others with the flat of the hand. None require fingers to perform or ears to listen too.
-- Frederick Corder -
I'm a T-shirt-and-jeans-with-combat-boots guy. And if I don't have to shave, I don't.
-- Gabriel Macht -
Clinging to each other won't save you maggots when the boot falls!
-- Gangrel -
Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal adornment. A faultless fit, a glistening hat, tight gloves, and tighter boots proclaim the imminent peril of his position.
-- George Augustus Henry Sala -
Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.
-- George Eliot -
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.
-- George Weah -
I am not about fringing, cow girl boots, that kind of Coachella vibe. I just wear something comfortable.
-- Georgia May Jagger -
I've always looked at shoes as being immensely beautiful things.
-- Graham Coxon -
I'm a bit of lunatic with shoes and jackets and jeans. It's just how I am.
-- Graham Coxon -
When we step on the battlefield, I will be The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
-- Hal Moore -
You can do anything that you wanna do, but uh-uh, don't step on my cowboy boots.
-- Hank Williams, Jr. -
It was the kind of sword that would make a lifelong pacifist look for tall boots and a hat with feathers.
-- Ilona Andrews -
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
-- Iris Murdoch -
I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
-- Jackson Rathbone -
The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.
-- James S. Coleman -
Sometimes I misstep into something perhaps I shouldn't, but with age comes a thick, high pair of rubber boots to wade through the barnyard. We should all have to get to the dirt and 'muck out' at some point in our lives.
-- Janice Tanton -
Being from Texas, I would say I favor a pair of jeans you can wear some boots with.
-- Jensen Ackles -
I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.
-- Jim Butcher -
There is about to be a big cowboy boot in your ***** if you dont shut up.
-- Jim Ross -
What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?
-- John Milton -
I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
I desperately wish I had my tambourine with me now, because even after everything I'm still wearing heavy boots, and sometimes it helps to play a good beat
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
Oh, the boots were on the other eight feet now.
-- Jonathan Stroud -
I don't wear heels. I'm all about flats from Chanel and wedges. I love my Gucci wedge boots.
-- Jourdan Dunn -
I got the boot once from Stanley Donen. The film was called The Little Prince.
-- Julie Harris -
Great brands are like great stories. And every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. And our job is to make sure that every chapter of our stories makes sense to the one in front of it and make sense to the one after it. There is no such thing as an overnight success. You have to get up and put your work boots on every single day.
-- Kevin Plank -
I jerked to a stop at the door to my room. "What's wrong with my boots?" I said, thinking they were the only thing that I was going to keep on. Ah…the only thing from this outfit, not the only thing total.
-- Kim Harrison -
Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.
-- Kristine Kathryn Rusch -
Why did I follow her? If you must know, Sir, it was easy. Pound for pound, Puss-in-Boots was the best commander I ever served under.
-- L.A. Meyer -
Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall.
-- Laura Riding -
When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!
-- Li Na -
I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
-- Marie Windsor -
We can feel sorry for ourselves or we can put the work boots on and understand the situation and the reality of it all.
-- Marty Turco -
I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
-- Mary Decker -
Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?
-- Mary Oliver -
Even now, I'm very superstitious, in silly ways. I always put my left boot on first. Or on set, I always tie my bow tie from right to left.
-- Matt Smith -
Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.
-- Maynard Owen Williams -
You have to believe him, because he's going to have your entire palace up in arms and your court in chaos and every member of it from the barons to the boot cleaners coming to you for his blood, and you are going to have to deal with it." Attolia smiled. "You make him sound like more trouble than he is worth. "No," said Eddis thoughtfully. "Never more than he is worth.
-- Megan Whalen Turner -
Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ***** down - everything down for that matter.
-- Mel Gibson -
little life lesson 23: before making a snide comment about someone else's outfit, check to see if you're wearing knee boots with fringe. if you answer yes, drop it. just do.
-- Michele Jaffe -
Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.
-- Mikhail Bakunin -
Churches that make an impact are more focused on putting boots on the streets than butts in the seats
-- Miles McPherson -
You want to do something for the Lord...do it. Whatever you feel needs to be done, even though youre shaking in your boots, youre scared to death -- take the first step forward. The grace comes with that one step and you get the grace as you step. Being afraid is not a problem; its doing nothing when you feel afraid.
-- Mother Angelica -
I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.
-- Nancy Sinatra -
These boots were made for walking, that's just what they'll do. One of these days these boots are going to walk all over you.
-- Nancy Sinatra -
I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
-- Nate Berkus -
The [Moon] surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.
-- Neil Armstrong -
My mom has an English accent, so we always referred to the trunk as the 'boot.' And then, suddenly, we moved to Georgia and I would say things like 'open the boot' with a bit of an accent, and I quickly realized I had to adapt; that kind of thing will get you beat up!
-- Nicole Beharie -
Putting on fierce boots is an instant pick-me-up.
-- Nina Garcia -
You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.
-- Norah Vincent -
I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
-- Oksana Baiul -
Of course, I will keep myself fit, keep my boots clean and you never know.
-- Paul Ince -
Yes I am finally hanging up my boots for good,
-- Paul Scholes