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.

Rebecca Miller

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

Reba McEntire

I love to wear boots - and shoes, I don't like at all.

Rob Bell

When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the plants and whether they're getting enough water and if their roots are deep enough. Soil under the fingernails, grapes being trampled under bare feet, fingers sticky from handling fresh fruit. It's that green stripe you get around the sole of your shoes when you mow the lawn. Life in the age to come. Earthy.

Tracy Reese

Shoes are the finishing touch on any outfit and it is important to complete a look with the perfect pair!

Tori Amos

Even if everything else is downplayed, I'll wear good shoes.

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.

Russell Baker

A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.

William Gibson

I'm interested in people who become culturally fluent. And when I meet young people I'm often amazed they don't quite seem to have a sense of where they're from. They're like the citizens of the airport.

Salman Rushdie

Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.

Ursula K. Le Guin

In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell.

Rodney Dangerfield

I've never been lucky. The day my ship came in, I was at the airport.

Saul Alinsky

Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.

Harvey Korman

And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on.

Jon Porter

In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.

Joey Logano

I enjoy doing autograph sessions because I'm a people-watcher. I'm the guy in the airport who likes to just sit and watch people go by. So I enjoy just meeting people and hearing their stories.

Russell Brand

Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.

Tyler Cowen

The more information that's out there, the greater the returns to just being willing to sit down and apply yourself. Information isn't what's scarce; it's the willingness to do something with it.

Robert Smith

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

Yoko Ono

When I'm inspired, I jot things down and put them in a pile.

Neal Schon

I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.

Harvey Mackay

Don't let ups and downs leave you down and out.

Henry Rollins

Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.

John Cleese

You go in and meet the head of BBC One and get an assurance about not dumbing down. And then, of course a few months later, he's been replaced by someone you haven't met.