“How can you need so many rods and reels to catch a fish? , she asked, her lips pulled into that weaned on a gherkin look, as she watched me prepare for a fishing trip. Probably for much the same reason that you seem to need 30 pairs of shoes for one pair of feet, I nearly said, but decided to live for another day.” NeedsLooksSaidReasonSeemsSeaFeetRiversDecidedShoesLipsFishesBoatLakesFishingPairsAnother DayPair Of Shoes Author:Tony Bishop
“A drawing, brought by Colonel Coombs, from a sculptured column in a cave-temple in the South of India, represents the first pair at the foot of the ambrosial tree, and a serpent entwined among the heavily-laden boughs, presenting to them some of the fruit from his mouth.” FirstsTreeFeetAtheismMouthsIndiaSouthFruitPositive AtheismDrawingTemplesPairsCavesColumnsPresentingSerpentColonelsEntwined Author:Godfrey Higgins
“I own one pair of Prada shoes. They make my feet hurt... It's not the shoes' fault; they are exquisitely made. I blame my feet. I've got my mother's feet.” MadeMotherHurtFeetBlameFaultsShoesPairsPrada Author:Meryl Streep
“We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.” WellsLittlesBookPlayHandsFoundNamesVisionFourFeetBuildingAdventureBrotherSucceedConcernMathematicsUniversityProfitActiveMagazinesShopsPairsPrintEditorsPublishersRubberArithmeticCredulityFlattererSkipper Book:Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition) Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)
“Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!” BodyImaginationFeetColdAwfulPairsSockGood ThoughtsCold Feet Author:Franz Grillparzer
“In one way an oil boom is a mighty bad thing, because it gets into your blood and almost becomes an obsession. Booms are filled with excitement, adventure, and drama, but sometimes the exit from the scene must be made between suns on a pair of mighty weary feet.” WayMadeSometimesSuccessBusinessSunBloodFeetAdventureDramaSceneFilledOilObsessionOne WayExcitementPairsBad ThingsWearyExit Author:Sue Sanders
“Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high, And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher, Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.” IfsWorldEyeFireFeetModernMinesHigherTwentiesPairsWhat IfHeritageFifteenFencePatchesStalkingRoguesProcessionStiltsPatch Up Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats
“Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.” ThinkingDifferentCoursesEasyResultsNumbersMistakeFeetTestsWeightNotionComplicatedScalesPairsLengthRulersAbstractionDefining Author:Walter Lippmann
“Our pointe shoes are our instruments. If something's wrong with my feet, all my mind goes there. I usually have six pairs ready. Soft shoes for one act, stiffer shoes for another, stronger shoes for a variation with a lot of turns.” IfsMindTurnsFeetReadySixStrongerInstrumentsShoesPairsVariationPointe Author:Nina Ananiashvili
“I remember seeing Extreme play with [Debra] Winger and Cinderella. Gary Cherone was wearing purple velvet overalls with no shirt and saddle oxfords.Afterward, I went home and told my mom, "I need to find saddle oxfords." And she said, "Like little girls wear?" Naturally, I couldn't find them in my size, so I went to a shoemaker and had him make me a pair. I wore them for a while, but they didn't seem as cool on me, because when your foot is size 12, they sort of look like clown shoes.” NeedsLooksLittlesSaidPlayHomeSeemsRememberGirlSeeingFeetMomShoesSizeExtremesMy MomShirtsPairsClownPurpleVelvetOxfordGarySaddlesOveralls Author:Patrick Wilson
“In the course of my day, I'll probably go through four pairs of shoes! I start the day in flats.I'll change into some mid-range heels because if I typically have lunch speeches. Then, I'll drop down to a pair of kitten heels for a couple of hours to rest my feet and legs, before I change for the evening into my hall shoes.” IfsCoursesHoursFourFeetCoupleSpeechShoesLegsEveningRangePairsFlatsHallsLunchHeelsKittenPair Of ShoesStart The Day Author:Leah D. Daughtry
“It is quite widely known that I like shoes. This is not something that defines me as either a woman or a politician, but it has come to define me in the eyes of the newspapers. I wore a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to a Conservative Party Conference a few years ago and the papers have continued to focus on my feet ever since.” YearsEyePartyKnownFocusFeetPoliticianPaperYears AgoShoesConservativeNewspapersPairsPrintHeelsPapersConferencesKittenLeopardsConservative PartyLeopard Print Author:Theresa May
“I love to see a woman in high-heeled shoes. There's something about the curve of the feet up the leg to the butt that's really, really wonderful, and the right pair of shoes can give you the right silhouette.” GivingWonderfulFeetShoesLegsPairsCurvesPair Of ShoesSilhouettes Author:Tyler Perry