Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Fuller

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

Irving Thalberg

Compliments you pay to yourself aren't worth having.

Mary Schmich

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

LeRoy Neiman

I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'

Harvey Mackay

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.

Phyllis Diller

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.

Yoko Ono

If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use.

Charles Caleb Colton

Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

Chogyam Trungpa

It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.

Bill Nighy

Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.

Bertrand Russell

The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes.

Alan Tudyk

That's where I'm comfortable - playing a jackass on the scene, rolling in with my pocket watch and my buffoon hairdo, with my shoes.

Charlie Chaplin

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

Cheryl Strayed

Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed.

Bill Maher

I feel like I'm wearing orthopedic shoes, because I stand corrected.

Juan Pablo Galavis

I don't walk barefoot. When I see a girl barefoot in the street... I'm like, 'Really?' But obviously, I can't judge someone for that first impression.

Theo Brown

We heard gunshots. We could see people moving barefoot through the water, with all they could carry, just panicked. It was mayhem.

Bunker Roy

You come for the money, you don't come to Barefoot College. You come for the work and the challenge, you'll come to the Barefoot College. That is where we want you to try crazy ideas. Whatever idea you have, come and try it. It doesn't matter if you fail. Battered, bruised, you start again.

Bunker Roy

You have to be a cop-out or a wash-out or a dropout to come to our college. You have to work with your hands. You have to have a dignity of labor. You have to show that you have a skill that you can offer to the community and provide a service to the community. So we started the Barefoot College, and we redefined professionalism.

Dianne Jones

We got my 10-year-old grandson and headed outside barefoot in the 15-degree temperature. We got in the car and called the Fire Department back from my cell phone.

Zola Budd

I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track.

Rick Roseman

Right now, Barefoot has been our strongest runner. He came on strong in track and has run all summer.

Tori Amos

I have my own parties. They involve being barefoot with a piece of fried chicken and margarita in each hand.

George Herbert

Better a barefoot than none.