Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allan Carr

The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.

Russell Brand

It doesn't matter how many pairs of shoes you have, how many cars you have, etc.... It's all utterly meaningless and yet we continue to pursue this. Why? Because they've learned they can stimulate our primal desires through selling us products.

Willa Cather

A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.

Vincent Van Gogh

If you work diligently... without saying to yourself beforehand, 'I want to make this or that,' if you work as though you were making a pair of shoes, without artistic preoccupation, you will not always find you do well. But the days you least expect it, you will find a subject which holds its own with the work of those who have gone before.

Wayne Thiebaud

The figures... are not supposed to reveal anything... It's like seeing a stranger in some place like an air terminal for the first time. You look at him, you notice his shoes, his suit, the pin in his lapel, but you don't have any particular feeling about him.

Valerie Steele

The stiletto is the icon of erotic femininity. You're taller, thinner and curvier, all at the same time. What's not to like?

Sarah Jessica Parker

When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I'm very lucky.

Sarah Jessica Parker

Often I'll go to the market, and women will say to me: "Let me see your shoes." And then I show them I'm wearing flip-flops.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

For shoes I try to choose a bootie style and opt for a heel that looks good but allows me to get around.

quran

There is no good in most of their secret counsels except (in his) who enjoins charity or goodness or reconciliation between people; and whoever does this seeking Allah's pleasure, We will give him a mighty reward.

Rig Veda

Humans should do charity and do service to others.

Don Smithburg

Our morgue at Big Charity is full and it is under water.

Gail Winawer

If you have clothing or household items you no longer need, this is the time to take it to a charity.

Washington Irving

Christmas! 'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart

Rhett Warrener

I'll give it to charity. I'm not sure which one but I'm sure I'll find one. I just wish I'd have registered my wife for it. I didn't get that done in time.

Michael Ignatieff

I had no inkling of how crazy the political life would turn out to be. You shuttle between your constituency and Ottawa, you try to make every barbecue, festival, parade and charity run, but sometimes you feel pulled in 14 directions at once.

Mamie Gummer

My favorite charity is the Womens Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

Eli Segal

This is not about charity. This is not about corporate responsibility. This is a smart solution for businesses.

William Wordsworth

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

Rod McKuen

There's no misery in not being loved, only in not loving.

Samuel Johnson

Misery and shame are nearly allied.

Thomas Shepard

I know it is the misery of men; they can make nothing of this till they feel it.

John C. Reilly

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

Arthur Golden

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

Brooke Shields

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

Dalai Lama

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

Dodie Smith

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.