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High heels indicate power

- Stuart Weitzman, heelpolitik-the-power-of-the-stiletto.pdf

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Women can do anything guys can do and do it better, and do it in heels. I still don’t know how she does it in heels, I really don’t.”

–Barack Obama, in a speech on June 27 referring to those extra three inches

that still weren’t quite enough to push Hillary Clinton over the top.

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The foot is an erotic organ and the shoe is its sexual covering

- William A. Rossi (In book The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe)

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No diamonds but heels are a girl’s friend

- William A. Rossi (Podiatrist)

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Nothing has been invented yet that will do a better job than heels at making a good pair of legs look great, or great ones look fabulous.

- Stuart Weitzman

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If the shoe fits, buy it in every colour

- anonymous

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I like to literally put women on a pedestal.

- Vivienne Westwood

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The girl with the low and sensible heels is likely to pay for her bed and meals

- Saturday Evening Post

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How tall am I? Honey, with hair, heels and attitude I’m through this damned roof.

- RuPaul

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I never figured out what they wanted. But they were willing to pay a lot for it.

- Andy Warhol

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Put on your red shoes and dance the blues.

- David Bowie

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Shoes are the exclamation point at the end of a fashion statement

- Laurie Schecter

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Shoes are the foundation of all fashion

- anon

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If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them

- Sue Grafton

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I know…the secret of toe cleavage, a very important part of the sexuality of the shoe. You must only show the first two cracks.

-Manolo Blahnik

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“I don’t know who invented the high heel, but all men owe him a lot.”

-Marilyn Monroe

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From the dawn of time man has struggled for just four things: food, safety, someone to love, and a pair of shoes that fit

-Tagline for Being Human

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Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven’t had fourteen pairs in my life.

-Brian Clough

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Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you’ll be a mile away and have his shoes.

-Frieda Norris (Original) Also quoted for http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Jack_Handey

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You saved…my shoe. I mean, my life.

- Jennifer Lopez as Mary in The Wedding Planner (link)

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Is it time to go home yet? I keep clicking these damn shoes, but nothing happens.

-Robin Hecht

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I never put on a pair of shoes until I’ve worn them at least five years.

-Samuel Goldwyn

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A loving caring teacher took a liking to me. She noticed the potential and wanted to help shape it. She also brought me clothes and shoes.

- Tom Bradley

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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

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I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.

-Mickey Rooney Link (explicit)

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“Everyone knew not to walk in my room without shoes on ’cause of the pins.“

- Gwen Stefani

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Don’t study so much that you get brilliant, go mad, grow a big bald egghead and try to take over the world, okay? ‘Cause I want to go shoe shopping this weekend.

-Lorelai Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)

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“I could eat a shoe with hot sauce on it”

- Heather Locklear

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It’s really hard to walk in a single woman’s shoes-that’s why you sometimes need really special shoes.

- Carrie Bradshaw’s (in Sex and the City)

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You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can’t love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can’t hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.

-Allan Sherman

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

-Bobby Darin

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Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe.

-Lita Ford

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Dorothy was cool. Her shoes were retro.

-Sophie (In Treatment)

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You have no right to take my shoe from me.

-Dorothy (The Wizard of Oz)

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What becomes of the broken-hearted? They buy shoes.

-Mimi Pond

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“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”

- Carl Gustav Jung (in Modern Man in Search of Soul 1933)

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“The time has come;, the Walrus said, to speak of many things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings.”

- Lewis Caroll (in Through the looking Glass;  Poem: The walrus and the carpenter)

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“The worst part about getting bags under your eyes is finding the shoes to match”

-Adrienne Gusoff (List Quotes)

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If the shoe fits, it’s too expensive.

-Adrienne Gusoff (List Quotes)

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I did a lot of research and found that, structurally, pole dancers have the best shoes. They’re on their feet all day.

-Daphne Guinness

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When people wear shoes that don’t fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.

-Billy Bob Thornton

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I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.

-Oprah Winfrey

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

-Mark Twain

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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat.

-George Bernard Shaw

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At the end of a movie, all my outfits are missing. They even call: ‘Tara, those were $700 shoes.’ What are they going to do, search my house?

-Tara Reid

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The most auspicious days to shop for shoes are those days that end in the letter “Y”

- Feng Shoe (Book)

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I went to see the Jackson Five when I was a kid, and they all wore flat shoes and it didn’t work.

- Prince

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I mean, he was really nice and cute and stuff, but he was only two inches taller than me. And my entire shoe collection is based on the concept of dating guys three inches taller than me, or more

-Quinn (Daria)

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“I’m not looking for fame, I’m looking for success in the NFL. I guess I’ve got some shoes to fill in that sense of it — following A.J., following Zach — but really, my thing is just playing the game I love to play, and it’s just fortunate that I’m able to do that now and hopefully go somewhere high in the draft.“

- Brady Quinn (Read Story birth-of-a-salesman)

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When your feet hurt, you hurt all over

- Socrates

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“It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.”

- George Foreman

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I have, like, thousands of shoes

-Paris Hilton

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Opportunity : He’s got the whole World at his feet and he can’t find his shoes

- John Williamson

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The Stoical scheme  of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting of our feet when we want shoes.

- Jonathan Swift

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These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it.

-Charles Barkley

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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.

-Tea Leoni

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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

-Christopher Morley

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Every girl looks at this boot and would love to wear it. But not everyone wants to go through the hassle. You don’t want to send these home with a woman who lives alone. This boot is work, and I am not going to let my client struggle on her own.

-Micheal Nitis, Louboutin boutique manager, on the Monica boot

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

-Iris Murdoch (Italian Proverb)

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It’s actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don’t have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money – there are no good shoe stores.

-Katie Holmes

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

-Ashton Kutcher Link (how-to-dress-like-a-perfect-couple)

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I don’t work with high-concept things that start with a premise, “Wouldn’t it be funny if there was this spy who met a…” For me, it could be, “What about people who sell shoes? That must be a bizarre world… when they meet at conventions and talk about shoes.”

-Christopher Guest

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“Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.”

- Elsa Schiaparelli

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Funny that a pair of really nice shoes make us feel good in our heads — at the extreme opposite end of our bodies.

-Levende Waters

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High heels always have been and always will be fashionable. And always with the same intention: to sex up the look.

-Edmundo Castillo, Sergio Rossi creative director

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Always wear expensive shoes. People notice.

-Brian Koslow

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“It took 4 million years of evolution to perfect the foot, and humans have been wrecking that perfection with every step since they first donned shoes,

- Adam Sternbergh New York magazine

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It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.

-Stephen Bayley

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If the shoe fits, you’re not allowing for growth.

-Robert N. Coons

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A woman carries her clothes, but it’s a shoe that carries a woman.

-Christian Louboutin French Shoe Designer

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Don’t defend the shoe to me.

-Tim Gunn (American Fashion Consultant in Bravo reality Series Project Runway)

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It’s an unlisted shoe, Operator!

-Maxwell Smart (Get Smart)

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“The foot is one of the greatest known masterpieces of engineering and a work of art”

- Leonardo Di Vinci

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It is better to wear out one’s shoes than one’s sheets.

- -Italian Proverb

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I’m always astonished by how much men misunderstand women. For one, men don’t understand how a woman can own 300 pairs of shoes. For a woman, it’s the most natural thing in the world.

-Christian Louboutin French Shoe Designer

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There’s something very funny about Shoe Town, when you think about it: a whole town of shoes.

-David LaChapelle

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There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman’s shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

-Karl Kraus

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I’m going shoe shopping. I need a wagon

-Hilary Banks (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air)

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You see, in this country, my husband is a very powerful man. He’s a shoe salesman.

-Peggy Bundy (in American sitcom- Married With Children)

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I said, hey, I put some new shoes on and everybody’s smiling.

-Paolo Nutini

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If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.

-Anon

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I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.

-Bette Midler Link bette-steals-hollywood

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“This big store, they sell shoes, and I make gloves. [On Hollywood]“

- Robert Altman (Link Story maverick-film-maker)

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These are sort of orthopedic Spartan shoes.

-Cynthia Rowley, on gladiator sandals of her own design

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Now, for goode luck caste an old shoe after me.

-Eliza Haywood

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I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; I left my shoes and socks there – I wonder if they’re dry

- Spike Milligan

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What I do is kick them in the pants with a diamond-buckled shoe.

-Gossip Columnist Aileen Mehle (”Suzy Knickerbocker”)

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“I’m having a wicked shoe craving.”

-Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty.

-Imelda Marcos

(read related articles: shoes-of-imelda-marcos; homage-to-imelda-shoes)

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My skinny jeans are at the cleaners, and my gladiator sandals are being resoled.

-Mayor Michael Bloomberg, on why he wore a tux to the CFDA awards

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My inspiration was showgirls…I started my career working for the Folies Bergère, and ended up combining shoes and showgirls.

-Christian Louboutin French Shoe Designer

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Hey, I put some new shoes on, and suddenly everything is right.

-Paolo Nutini

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I want everything I do to make the woman sparkle, inside and out.

-Yves Saint Laurent

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Whenever Samantha had bed scenes, she always had to wear shoes. Every time.

-Patricia Field

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It’s no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking.

-Irish Proverb

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“When I feel low, I don’t buy a pair of shoes, I change the color of my hair! It puts me in a good mood.”

- Linda Evangelista

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If the shoe fits, it is probably worn out.

-Craig Bruce

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“When I look at how many shoes I have, I say, ‘Wow!’ I wake up every day and just go, ‘I can’t believe this is happening to me, this is great.’ I am still me though – people always say that, but I really am. I also take into account the fact that we are not curing cancer here. I just have a really good time and I love what I do.”

- Eva Longoria

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I want customers to walk into Sergio Rossi and feel the same emotion I do when I walk into a sneaker store. It’s like I want to faint. I see sneakers and I worry, “Are they going to have my size in that? Or that?” I can’t even put my words together because I want that and that and that and that.

-Edmundo Castillo, Sergio Rossi Creative Director

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Very particular grooms have the soles of their shoes blacked with “water-proof” shoe polish so that when they kneel, their shoes look dark and neat.

-Emily Post

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Don’t throw away your old shoes until you have got new ones

-Dutch Proverb

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Always look at the hands first, Watson. Then cuffs, trouser-knees, and boots

- Arthur Canon Doyle

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No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.

-Buster Keaton

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I have joined a gym, but I can’t bring myself to start. What do you wear on the running machine? I can’t bring myself to wear flat shoes.

-Victoria Beckham

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How strange, when your father’s wearing women’s clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.

-Moon Unit Zappa

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“We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

- Georg Wilhelm Hegel

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“I think I’ll buy these pink shoes, they’ll draw attention away from my face.

-Hermione Gingold

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“How classy is it for me to wear these pink tennis shoes with my tux?”

- Will Ferrell (Link)

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Put on your red shoes and dance the blues.

-David Bowie

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I just can’t concentrate in flats.

-Victoria Beckham (during interview with U.K.’s GMTV)

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Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

-Oprah Winfrey

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To me, shoes are like pizza. There is no bad shoe!

-Kelly Ripa

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Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.

-Faith Whittlesey

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I design shoes to make women happy.

-Stuart Weitzman

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I’m not home, but my shoes are. Leave them a message.

-Carrie Bradshaw’s answering machine on Sex and the City

- read Carrie love for shoes at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Bradshaw

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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.

-Al Franken (as Stuart Smalley in Saturday night Live).

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I do like shoes; they are special. But do I like shoes as much as Carrie? Oh, no, no, no! We’re not even in the same league.

-Sarah Jessica Parker (quote during Times talk)

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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 over a century ago?

-Bernice Fitz-Gibbon (US advertising executive)

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I love Jessica Simpson’s stuff, especially the shoes. I dance around my house in them all the time.

- Pete Wentz

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“Everytime I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes.”

- Eddie Vedder

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I have loads of wig-heads for hats and a shoe-wall filled from floor to ceiling. It even has a ladder on wheels, a bit like an old library, so I can scoot along and get what I want quickly.

-Christina Aguilera

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Shoes help transform a woman.

-Manolo Blahnik

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Tell me about the last pair of shoes you bought.

-Terry Bradshaw

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The first Paris shop was conceived as a dove cot (un colombier) in which I could display every shoe in their own niche (or alcove) like birds. The association of the bird-like shoe in alcoves stays a constant in all my boutiques.

-Christian Louboutin French Shoe Designer

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“I met brilliant people when I went to Harvard and I met stupid people who couldn’t tie their shoes. When they caught the Unabomber, everyone said, ‘Oh, my — and he came from Harvard.’ I’m surprised there weren’t more Unabombers from Harvard.”

- Conan O’brien “for Don’t be awed by Harvard grads”

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“I went to a wedding … I couldn’t believe the groom was married in rented shoes. You’re making a commitment for a lifetime and your shoes have to be back by five-thirty. I was the best man at the wedding … If I’m the best man, why is she marrying him?”

-Jerry Seinfeld (Link)

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“Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.”

- Elvis Presley -Elvis often used this adaptation of a well-known quotation.

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The higher the heel of the shoe, the closer you are to Heaven’s gate.

- Feng Shoe (Book)

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Always buy a good pair of shoes and a good bed, as if you aren’t in one you are in the other.

-Gloria Hunniford (TV and radio presenter)

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I just hope for the best, hope I’m going to find a dress that is comfortable and shoes that don’t make me scream after half an hour.

-Kate Winslet

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My biggest fashion weakness is definitely shoes. My favorites are some Chloe wedges. I have around 1,000 pairs

-Mary J. Blige

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Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there’s no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.

-George Eliot in Scenes of Clerical Life

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Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

-Nicholson Baker (petroski)

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Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush

-Doug Larson

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A man hasn’t got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined

- Anne Petry

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Englishwomen’s shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.

- Margaret Halsey

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“Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers“

- Austin O’Malley (United Irish leader, 1760-1854)

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“The golf course is the only place I can go dressed like a pimp and fit in perfectly. Anywhere else, lime-green pants and alligator shoes, I got a cop on my buns.”

- Samuel L Jackson

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