Quotes About Shoes

I always like to start with a great pair of shoes. It's your first contact with the ground, and it can really change the way you move and act physically.

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

Usually I'm very, very involved with choosing my character's wardrobe and knowing exactly how I want the character to look and this is the color palette and the textures and these are the kinds of shoes she'd wear.

My culinary wardrobe is the same as my biking wardrobe, just no shoes.

Any character, for me, always comes together in the hair, makeup, and wardrobe. Shoes especially. For some reason, shoes really do it for me because they help me figure out how the character walks.

Allen Edmonds makes stylish, comfortable shoes and after getting to know some people there, they asked if I wanted to co-design a shoe. I visited the factory, met with some designers and together we came up with something that I think is a good, solid staple for any wardrobe.

Shoes are a great invention. They keep us from stepping on nails. Your feet stay clean and warm and dry.

I remember a rainbow spectrum of men's wing tips parked in rows, triple-A narrow, the leather dyed snake green, lemon yellow, and unstable shades of vermilion and Ditto-ink blue. All of humanity dresses in uniforms of one sort or another, and these shoes were for pimps.

Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge I can't think about filling them.

In the alley where I last saw Justine, there was no sun. The storefronts displayed carnation bouquets and orthopedic shoes and hearing aids, but in the alley, these same stores were just dark walls, and looking at them was like looking at the back of someone who has turned and walked away from you.

I love, love, love Charlotte Olympia shoes, but who doesn't?

I love Charlotte Olympia and Sophia Webster shoes best - they're like art for the feet.

When I perform, I wear white Capezio dance shoes. It's more of a superstition, but I only wear them when I perform and when I dance.

Make no mistake, shoes are very important, almost as important as the racket. You need to feel comfortable; you need to be supported by the shoes.

I don't know why my shoes are so popular - I am always surprised and mystified by it.

It was the kind... of Southern women... who believe... that it is impossible to arrive in a new place without a pair of shoes to match every possible change of clothes.

I was too young and naive then to link up the meaning of those ridiculingly defunct tennis shoes that I was forced to wear with the reality that we were on Welfare and Welfare was not designed to provide a child with any pride in its existence.

Shoes really did lead the perfect life. They were polished and taken care of and not expected to do anything more painful than occasionally step in a bit of mud or a rare puddle. She'd wager her shoes never wished they could just disappear.

You have no shame for ruining my shoes, nyet ? If it weren't so difficult to replace shoes here in the middle of nowhere, I would let you stomp on the tops of all of them, but such is not the case. If they are ruined, I must go without. A barefoot prince? That sounds like a bad Italian opera.

Red shoes are for toddlers and whores," Ginny had quipped.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.

I buy my shoes a size too small. I like the way it feels.

Of all the wonderful things that men and women share, shoes, tragically, are not one of them. This is because men lack the shoe chromosome.