Shoes famous quotes

I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.
-- Aaron Huey

#Dark #Shoes #Guy

When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?
-- Abbie Cornish

#Character #Shoes #Judging

I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
-- Abigail Adams

#Hate #Shoes #Complaining

There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
-- Abraham Verghese

#Teacher #Shoes #Years

I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore be more involved if they're people that you recognize.
-- Adrian Lyne

#Shoes #People #Actors

All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water.
-- Adriana Trigiani

#Taken #Simple #Shoes

Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.
-- Afrojack

#Song #Art #Shoes

Cinderella's glass shoe was the perfect size.... so why did it slip off as she ran?- It must have been to attract the attention of Prince Charming.. I don't see any other explanation
-- Ai Yazawa

#Shoes #Glasses #Perfect

You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on.
-- Aisha Tyler

#Women #Book #Shoes

I got an attitude, that's rude because I walked over Elvis' grave in some blue suede shoes.
-- Akinyele

#Attitude #Blue #Shoes

You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don't step on my blue suede shoes.
-- Al Yankovic

#Blue #Shoes #Trying

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
-- Alan Bennett

#Shoes #Feet #Clothes

When you're pregnant you just want to be comfortable - but I wear more or less the same as I do when I'm not pregnant: pregnancy denim with normal tops and flat shoes. But when the belly starts to really stick out, I'll want the floaty dresses!
-- Alessandra Ambrosio

#Pregnancy #Shoes #Sticks

Seem like a lot of people wear shoes they can't walk in.
-- Alex Flinn

#Shoes #People #Walks

A shoe that fits one person pinches another.
-- Alex Flinn

#Shoes #Fit #Persons

Of course I took something from the [Glee set]. I took my entire shoe collection, that's all I would ever need.
-- Alex Newell

#Shoes #Glee #Needs

I actually did use to sell shoes.
-- Alex Winter

#Shoes #Use

If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes.
-- Alexander MacLaren

#Strong #Shoes #Path

Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.
-- Alexander McCall Smith

#Shoes #Old Friends #Supportive

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

#Nike #Fashion #Shoes

My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes,
-- Alexander Wang

#Mom #Shoes #Would Be

If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that 'rewards work.' But as with punishments, they can never help someone develop a *commitment* to a task or action, a reason to keep doing it when there's no longer a payoff.
-- Alfie Kohn

#Commitment #Punishment #Shoes

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

#Hurt #Shoes #Makers

I'd rather have Prada shoes than eat.
-- Alice Evans

#Shoes #Prada

The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.
-- Allen Carr

#Shoes #Smoking #Pleasure

A jump shot can get you a shoe deal, a big house, a supermodel, fancy cars, a bunch of yes men, a Swiss bank account. But none of these things can get you a jump shot
-- Allen Iverson

#Men #Shoes #Car

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.
-- Amy Adams

#Girl #Hard Work #Shoes

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

#High Heels #Shoes #Body

I like Cinderella - she has a good work ethic and she likes shoes.
-- Amy Adams

#Fashion #Shoes #Work Ethic

I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.
-- Amy Irving

#Hippie #Shoes #San Francisco

I understand now why Hillary Clinton always wore navy blue pantsuits. Remember, for four years? If you have one or two themes, then you have the same shoes, the same bag. Otherwise, it's a nightmare.
-- Amy Klobuchar

#Blue #Years #Shoes

I cried when I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. And then I laughed REALLY hard.
-- Amy Sedaris

#Men #Shoes #Feet

My biggest accomplishment was playing "Lark" on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes.
-- Amy Weber

#Jobs #Drama #Shoes

I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Falling In Love #Heart #Shoes

I couldn't have asked for a better kid. She's our own little Buddha baby so far. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop to tell you the truth. It's like the calm before the storm.
-- Ana Ortiz

#Baby #Kids #Shoes

Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.
-- Anderson Cooper

#Inspirational #Motivational #Shoes

Everybody's got opinions on the way you're livin', But see, they can't fill your shoes.
-- Andre Benjamin

#Rap #Shoes #Hip Hop

Drekitude is the lowest point in the lowest ebb. It could be your look. It could be your shoes. It could be that you're standing wrong. Drek is a total, total, total hot mess.
-- Andre Leon Talley

#Shoes #Hot #Looks

The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today's world, that does not exist.
-- Andre Leon Talley

#Shoes #White #Labor Day

There was an old lady who lived in a shoe. She had so many kids... her uterus fell out!
-- Andrew Dice Clay

#Kids #Shoes #Uterus

Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.
-- Andrew Solomon

#Shoes #People #Bed

If you want to give the devil a message, write it on the bottom of your shoes.
-- Andrew Wommack

#Writing #Shoes #Giving

By the time they're ready to be thrown away, most shoes are thoroughly comfortable
-- Andy Rooney

#Inspiration #Shoes #Ready

In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.
-- Ang Lee

#Shoes #Culture #Tradition

You have to realise that I am the third out of six children, and I am raised with very strong core values and a very strong upbringing. I always put myself in other people's shoes.
-- Angela Ahrendts

#Strong #Children #Shoes

People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Gun #Shoes #People

When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes
-- Ann Brashares

#Funny #Hilarious #Shoes

A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.
-- Ann Petry

#Men #Shoes #Virtue

Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
-- Ann Rule

#Book #Writing #Shoes

I can be naked as long as I'm wearing the right pair of shoes.
-- Anna Dello Russo

#Shoes #Long #Naked

Yeah, I guess I'm economical. Not because I try, but because I'm really not that interested in shoes.
-- Anna Torv

#Shoes #Trying #Yeah

The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. This is how one becomes undone by a smell, a word, a place, the photo of a mountain of shoes. By love that closes its mouth before calling a name.
-- Anne Michaels

#Rain #Past #Shoes

She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan.
-- Anne Stuart

#Years #Shoes #Underwear

I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.
-- Anne Tyler

#Thinking #Shoes #Luck

Jack believed in something—he believed in white witches and sleighs pulled by wolves, and in the world the trees obscured. He believed that there were better things in the woods. He believed in palaces of ice and hearts to match. Hazel had, too. Hazel had believed in woodsmen and magic shoes and swanskins and the easy magic of a compass. She had believed that because someone needing saving they were savable. She had believed in these things, but not anymore. And this is why she had to rescue Jack, even though he might not hear what she had to tell him.
-- Anne Ursu

#Heart #Ice #Shoes

We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.
-- Anthony Burgess

#Funny #Hurt #Shoes

What is so liberating about this whole business is when you see that big movies are going to come out and then you see them up in Malibu in the little triplex theatre a week later and you think, this is show business. This is the great movie career. And it's all funded in the shoe box.
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Thinking #Careers #Shoes

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Shoes #Lazy #Devil

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.
-- Arthur Miller

#Hypnosis #Shoes #Pairs

If a chick wants to know who makes my shoes, she's got to take them off my feet and look inside.
-- ASAP Rocky

#Shoes #Feet #Looks

I love jeans, T-shirts, boots, and tennis shoes.
-- Ashley Benson

#Jeans #Shoes #Tennis

I like what Proenza Schouler is doing. I also love the Miu Miu chunky embellished shoes and really like Prada as well.
-- Ashley Madekwe

#Shoes #Prada #Wells

When I believe in something, I support it fully. On that note, I totally don't support Velcro shoes.
-- Ashley Rickards

#Believe #Shoes #Support

No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it. It's very easy to judge someone else's actions by what you assume your own would be, if you were in their shoes. But we only know what we THINK we would do, not what we WOULD do.
-- Ashly Lorenzana

#Thinking #Shoes #People

When it comes to getting dressed, men are a little bit more important than handbags but less important than shoes.
-- Ashton Kutcher

#Men #Shoes #Important

Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world through the magic of imagination, creates this shock of recognition. Without this empathy there can be no genuine dialogue, and we as individuals and nations will remain isolated and alien, segregated and fragmented.
-- Azar Nafisi

#Fate #Shoes #Imagination

It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides and refrain from becoming too ruthless. Outside the sphere of literature only one aspect of individuals is revealed. But if you understand their different dimensions you cannot easily murder them. . .
-- Azar Nafisi

#Shoes #Different #Literature

You are here to step into the shoes of UN ambassadors - to draft resolutions, to plot strategy, to negotiate with your allies as well as your adversaries. Your goal may be to resolve a conflict, to cope with a natural disaster or to bring nations together on an issue like climate change. You may be playing a role, but you are also preparing for life. You are acting as global citizens.
-- Ban Ki-moon

#Shoes #Issues #Goal

If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself and I will walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America. Because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner.
-- Barack Obama

#Struggle #Shoes #White

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
-- Barack Obama

#Character #Eye #Shoes

Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
-- Barbara Corcoran

#Home #Eight #Shoes

Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost contemptible, and glance off us lightly...Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance. Bathrobes. Yawning and stretching. Real tomatoes.
-- Barbara Holland

#Real #Shoes #Roots

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

#Shoes #Roots #Good Times

Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.
-- Barbara Kruger

#Art #Shoes #Money Talks

Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
-- Beatrix Potter

#Shoes #Cabbage #Potatoes

I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
-- Beatrix Potter

#Thinking #Shoes #House

Every girl needs a shoe that goes with nothing and therefore goes with everything.
-- Becki Newton

#Girl #Shoes #Needs

I love Michael Kors! I also love Miu Miu shoes - they're fabulous, I have so many pairs.
-- Bella Thorne

#Shoes #Fabulous #Pairs

A good golf course makes you want to play so badly that you hardly have the time to change your shoes.
-- Ben Crenshaw

#Golf #Shoes #Play

If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.
-- Bernhard Langer

#Shoes #Boots #Rubber

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
-- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#Creativity #Shoes #Vision

I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.
-- Bernie Mac

#Stupid #Shoes #Voice

Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.
-- Beryl Bainbridge

#Children #Shoes #Pairs

I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
-- Bette Midler

#Shoes #Lady Macbeth #Pairs

He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
-- Beverly Cleary

#Shoes #Different #Stores

The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.
-- Bill Bryson

#Average #Shoes #People

There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.
-- Bill James

#Jobs #Talking #Shoes

Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.
-- Bill Nighy

#Shoes #Brown

I believe in gradual experimentation with running shoes.
-- Bill Rodgers

#Running #Believe #Shoes

The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Shoes #Differences #Trying

What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Dog #Kings #Shoes

Because I have some amazing shoes and bags and stories that need to be appreciated.
-- Blake Lively

#Shoes #Needs #Bags

Why did I lose? No reason, though you might like to know that I got tired, my ears started popping, the rubber came off my shoes, I got cramp, and I lost one of my contact lenses. Other than that I was in great shape.
-- Bob Lutz

#Tired #Shoes #Tennis

I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff.
-- Bob Uecker

#Shoes #Gloves #Stuff

Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.
-- Bobby Darin

#Shoes #Ashes #Boots

A-well-a, splish, splash, I forgot about the bath, I went and put my dancing shoes on.
-- Bobby Darin

#Shoes #Dancing #Baths

I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.
-- Bobby Darin

#Fall #Shoes #Half

Being a celebrity stylist, there are many tricks of the trade that I use in my house and with my clients. The Mr. Clean Magic Eraser has so many uses, so it's my secret cleaning tool for keeping my shoes - like the vintage Air Jordan's I am obsessing over now - and my clients' shoes, scuff and dirt free.
-- Brad Goreski

#Air #Vintage #Shoes

Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to.
-- Branch Rickey

#Baseball #Years #Shoes

Everybody dreams about getting to the NBA and everybody dreams about having their own shoe. But when you're the face of a brand, you've got to kind of back off and let it all soak in a little bit.
-- Brandon Jennings

#Dream #Nba #Shoes