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"I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my shoe and a seashell in my pocket. Was I only dreaming?"
"It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."
"The past is a pebble in my shoe."
"I wear the same pants, same shirt and same shoes every day. I learned it from the greats, like Einstein. It's a uniform essentially."
"I woke up this mornin' Feelin' round for my shoes Know 'bout I got these, Old walkin' blues."
"I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes."
"Michael Scofield is someone everyone can relate to, but nobody would want to be in his shoes."
"People can be slave-ships in shoes."
"You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself."
"Once I wept for I had no shoes. Then I met a man with no feet, so I took his shoes. I mean, it wasn't as if he was going to need them."
"I don't set out to make a really hot shoe, I set out to make a product that is true to where I am."
"I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything."
"Good shoes - they're the ultimate finishing touch. In fact, we actually joke in my family that your shoes have to be shined before you can leave the house."
"I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics."
"Someone from Manolo Blahnik went into my shop and said: 'These shoes are not vegetarian.' That's the highest compliment, because you just can't tell that they are, and they are. My mum taught me to have a soul."
"I am vegetarian, so I don’t have clothes, shoes or bags made from leather or suede or any animal products. Shoes are hard to find. These are fake Uggs. And I’ve got a pair of vintage boots, which are PVC."
"Everybody's got opinions on the way you're livin', But see, they can't fill your shoes."
"Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes."
"Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment in the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the honest workingman."
"The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form- an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other."
