All interesting heroes have an Achilles’ heel.
If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.
Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world’s economic leader.
Nia Jax is Nia Jax. That’s something that I have been trying to get across. I am who I am in the moment. I’m not a heel. I’m not a babyface. I’m Nia Jax.
Going from the top ‘heel’ in the industry, taking some time away to heal my neck and allow the people to miss me and understand what it was they had with me and just how special I am, allowed me to come back.
When I was starring as Roxie Hart in ‘Chicago,’ I got my stiletto heel caught in my fishnet tights and fell flat on my face. It was incredibly painful and not something you can cover up.
I’m in love with what a high heel does to a leg: how it makes a woman or a man feel. It’s empowering.
Anderson Silva I think is extraordinarily talented, but I don’t think his submission game is great. We’ve seen him get caught in heel hooks.
People ask me how I am such a good heel, but I don’t know; I just try to be me and go and do what I need to do to get the job done on any show that I am on and achieve the work that is set up in front of me.
Turning heel was so much fun for me. I was so over being a babyface.
You hope all good athletes run on the balls of their feet. You don’t want them coming down heel first. The perfect style is the foot to come down with a slight supination and on a tilt to the outside.
It hard to be real heel, like Iron Sheik-class.
We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.
My poor, problematic feet don’t let me wear anything much over a three- or four-inch heel.
The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.
I don’t think people realize how good Fit Finlay was. He was the best heel and probably the best worker I’d ever seen.
Lio Rush, this little guy is a perfect heel manager, updated for modern times.
I’m quite British; I’ve got big, flat feet, and I can’t wear heels. I’ve got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.
I love a good statement pant with a great heel and fitted top.
My comfort zone and where I feel most natural is being a heel.
I’m not sure if it’s cause I’m getting old, but my heels have to be 3.5 inch or less, or a chunky heel.
I love being a heel.
Shoot, man, I loved being a damn heel. Something about that, just going out there and being the most despicable person you could ever be, was a real turn-on for me. And I grew up a real shy kid in south Texas, and it was something for me to lean on and have fun with.
Whenever two guys got together, you asked, ‘What body part would you like to work?’ In my case, it was the arm. Most guys wanted to feed me for that arm drag. We always believed in storytelling, so if I had the arm, the heel would get away for a moment – or heel his way away – and then I would get back to it.
I won the NXT championship as a heel; then the fans grew to respect – not love, respect – me. I was popular because I was seen as the next to get called up.
I shattered the heel in my good leg, and it was an extremely bad injury. I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to snowboard again.
Collaboration and collegiality does not mean bowing down. It doesn’t mean being brought to heel.
Brother, if I’m going to be a heel, I’m going to turn who I am, what I am, and what I’m gonna do. I love it.
Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.
Everyone likes to be the heel. Everyone wants to be the bad guy. I mean, I love being the bad guy, but the crowd doesn’t want me to be a bad guy. In real life, I’m too much of a good guy to be a bad guy.
A willing heart adds feather to the heel.
I have a very good sense of my body and where it’s at. Although I don’t feel the ground in the same way that somebody else would, I’m very aware… I can feel pressure, and I know exactly where my toes are and exactly where my heel is.
The Achilles’ heel of the left has been its dependence on menace for power. Think of all the things it can ask for in the name of fighting menaces like ‘systemic racism’ and ‘structural inequality.’
If you’re feeling a little down, you’re never fully dressed without a strong heel. But only if you’re depressed – if you need a pick-me-up.
Most of my time as a legislator, I served in the minority. So I’m used to getting the heel of a loaf of bread.
I think deep down inside, most of the bad guys want to get cheered – I don’t. I want absolutely everybody in there to hate me, and that’s the mentality you need to have to be a successful heel.
I’m 6’2 – but 6’3 with a little heel on, like the cowboy boots.
I wish I had more confidence. I think that’s probably my Achilles’ heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.
I read a lot of things on Twitter, and I see a lot of things about Shayna and about me. I absolutely hate it when they rag on her and say she’s boring. She’s a heel, she’s not supposed to be exciting. She’s not supposed to make you like her.
I played in a punk rock band in high school called the High Heel Flip Flops. I was the drummer. I played drums for, like, four years.
The white pump is the new nude heel.
For me, I prefer to be the heel.
Device makers, especially consumer-focused ones, have been the Achilles’ heel of IoT security. These vendors have often viewed proper security implementations as extra cost, complexity, and time-to-market burdens with an unclear payoff.
I think The Miz can be a terrific heel. Miz enjoys being a heel, and I think he’s actually very good at it. People look at him and want to hate him. That’s what you want.
I think the self is complicated, that at various times we are all various people, and wrestling actually does a lot with that. You have things like heel turns where a person goes from being a good guy to a bad guy.
You know, you cannot be comfortable on a high heel shoes the way you would be in sneakers. But, you know, not everyone wants to be on sneakers. Sneakers are for different purposes.
For nighttime or for an event, I’m all about the nice heel. Something that’s still walkable but definitely very elegant.
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