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Quotes About Shoes

I find all men to be very much like wearing high-heeled shoes—I love how pretty they make me feel, but by the end of the night I can't wait to get rid of them.
~ beth hoffman
But lately," she said, wiggling her bare toes, "I find all men to be very much like wearing high-heeled shoes—I love how pretty they make me feel, but by the end of the night I can't wait to get rid of them.
~ beth hoffman
I'm tired of this back-slappin' isn't humanity neat bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.
~ Bill Hicks
Style is innate to who I am. My father gave me a picture the other day. I must have been about seven, and I had on wing-tip shoes and some cool pants. I thought, 'Wow!'
~ Dylan McDermott
The wrap party for the 'Lorna Doone' TV series was pretty special. We went to about four clubs, then four people's houses, and I got home at midday the next day. I'd been wearing ridiculous green shoes all night, and the dye had smudged all over my legs.
~ Amelia Warner
I was one of those dancers who they say wants to feel the floor through their pointe shoes. I would end up not wearing toe pads and that stuff. I would just wrap minimal amounts of paper towels around my toes.
~ Margaret Qualley
Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
~ Ann Rule
The surface of the shoes seemed to pulse with hundreds of reflections and refractions. In the firelight, it was like looking at boiling corpuscles of blood under a magnifying glass.
~ Gregory Maguire
As the first hard drops of rain fell, the Witch caught sight, not of the girl's face, but of the shoes. Her sister's shoes. They sparkled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood, and thorny stars.
~ Gregory Maguire
I shall pray for your soul, promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes, Elphie answered.
~ Gregory Maguire
She devoutly put away in her drawers her beautiful dress, down to the satin shoes whose soles were yellowed with the slippery wax of the dancing floor. Her heart was like these. In its friction against wealth something had come over it that could not be effaced.
~ Gustave Flaubert
En tiempos de desertización, en que el mundo ha dejado de ser habitable buscamos refugios en los oasis... pero corremos el peligro de que, en nuestra fuga hacia el oaiss, llevemos los zapatos llenos de la arena del desierto
~ Hannah Arendt
Little Gerda was very frightened, and began to cry; but no one heard her except the sparrows, and they could not carry her to land; but they flew along the bank, and sang as if to comfort her, Here we are! Here we are! The boat drifted with the stream, little Gerda sat quite still without shoes, for they were swimming behind the boat, but she could not reach them, because the boat went much faster than they did.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Guys who always shined their shoes were usually self-involved asswipes who figure superficiality trumps substance.
~ Harlan Coben
I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor.
~ Sloane Crosley
I bought my Grasshoppers tennis shoes at a flea market in Brooklyn. They are so comfortable to lounge around in on tour.
~ Wynter Gordon
Being the only girl, I feel a lot of pressure. I try not to think about it, but I definitely get in the gym a lot more frequently towards awards season. The guys always look great. They're both great looking and wear a good suit and a great tie and some awesome shoes and they're good to go. I'm like, 'I don't know what to do!'
~ Hillary Scott
I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.
~ Amy Irving
With four pairs of shoes I can travel the world.
~ Coco Chanel
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
~ Horace
I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes.
~ Charles Bukowski
Gabriela has been dreaming about her and about a pair of shoes for quite some time.
~ Silvina Ocampo
I love street style, seeing how girls wear pieces and how their pair accessories with their outfit. How they pair shoes with a bag and go to day to night and change things up.
~ Maria Sharapova
What's wrong with shoes? I collected them because it was like a symbol of thanksgiving and love?
~ Imelda Marcos