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Quotes About Socks

The air had that familiar tang of floor polish, socks and stale dinners that most schools share.
~ Jonathan Stroud
A fan sent me a pair of fluffy winter socks, and I was like, 'Oh, that's cool. I'll wear them to bed. It's cold; it's winter.' But they were worn. They were black underneath, and they stunk, and I hate feet. She was like, 'I'm giving you my favorite pair.'
~ Ella Henderson
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.
~ Joseph P. Kennedy
It's true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write 'And they lived happily ever after' before our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper.
~ Teresa Medeiros
When you can hear a spider walk across the floor, you know it's time to keep your socks on. Thank God for insecticide.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Jack unpacked sweatshirts, sweatpants, thick athletic socks. He wore them to encourage his body to reach a temperature hot enough to melt solids. No matter what anyone said, sweat was nothing but liquid fat. That's why it smelled like rancid bacon grease. As conundrums go, sweat was also his most private and trusted confidant.
~ Sherry Shahan
Who doesn't love a statement sock? I mean, we won't go in to details, but your underwear has to be bright, too.
~ Bubba Watson
I don't like socks or shoes. I really don't like socks but I wear them in my house because I can slide on my floor.
~ Blake Lewis
Isn't life strange? There are people who have so many leftover clothes they can't stuff them all in their wardrobe. And then there are people like me, whose socks never match.
~ Haruki Murakami
Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.
~ Linus Torvalds
Send clean socks. Love to all except Micah.
~ Stella Gibbons
It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I love sequencing and programming, and I'm drawn to drum 'n' bass music. I love James Murphy's productions - and hey, he wears my socks!
~ Henrik Vibskov
I did love Cher from Clueless. She had a great '90s wardrobe. The pleated skirts and the little knee-high socks and the whole school-girl thing.
~ Jodi Sweetin
Swell, just swell," muttered Howie. "Twenty-nine kids laughing at me in girls' socks carrying a stupid little pillow.
~ Beverly Cleary
This is comfortable and clean and familiar. Apart from a tendency among men of a certain age to wear knee-high socks with shorts, these people are just like you and me.
~ Bill Bryson
Question: is it possible to knit socks from seaweed? Doubtful.)
~ Susanna Clarke
You didn't promise to kill me," Wayne said, pulling on his socks. "You promised to have killed me. That there be the present perfect tense.
~ Brandon Sanderson
We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.
~ Nadia Comaneci
If I'm traveling, I'll pack socks in my bag - really cute furry ones.
~ Nicki Minaj
Stop stealing the funeral meats right now, you wee scuggers! She shouted. The Feegles stopped and stared at her. Then Rob Anybody said: Socks wi'oot feets?
~ Terry Pratchett
Everybody had a good year Everybody let the hair down Everybody pulled their socks up Everybody put their foot down Everybody had a wet dream Everybody saw the sun shine, oh yeah
~ The Beatles I Got a Feeling
I went into this bar and sat down next to a pretty girl. She looked at me and said, "Hey, you have two different colored socks on." I said, "Yeah, I know, but to me they're the same because I go by thickness."
~ Steven Wright