Top 160 Shoe Quotes

I have a shoe habit. If I’m in New York, it’s a problem because I’m walking and I have access to more stores. In L.A., it’s not as bad.

I worked in the family business, which was my father’s shoe making company that he had inherited from his father, and that led me to become interested in what could be achieved by a great Italian brand. That became my ambition as a young man.

From everything I can read about Aussie spiders, it seems like all they really like doing is hiding in your house or garden or car until you ‘accidentally’ disturb them – probably by doing something crazy like putting on the shoe they are lurking in – and they can officially bite you to pieces.

For years, the company was known as a women’s shoe company. Then we added men’s clothing, shirts and shoes, and people thought of us as a men’s brand.

I would say that a good shoe is exactly like a good wine. These shoes are going to stay and last for a long time.

Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn’t do it without some shoe leather.

It was just so elaborate and so luxurious. We had every gadget imaginable. You know, I had the little gun that came out, and I had the little gun in the heel of the shoe.

We will redo a shoe 15 times before we get it right, to get it where it should be and hopefully it will fit and look the way it should.

It’s actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don’t have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money – there are no good shoe stores.

Air Forces 1s just got that vibe when you’re walking in them, it’s like, this is a shoe shoe.

I started doing flats because women would always apologize for wearing them when they met me, as if they had to be in heels when meeting a shoe designer.

I didn’t know anything about running gear when I started out, but after trying a few shoe brands, I’ve discovered that Brooks are my preferred shoes.

Dada has always been competitive and respected and I’m excited to design and promote a shoe that represents both of us so well.

If you’re Ronan Keating, who was working in a shoe shop when I discovered him, but end of thinking you’re George Michael, then you need to be stopped.

Being very dyslexic I couldn’t even tie my own shoe laces until the age of 21 and I struggled at school.

I’m always up and down with Jordan’s. I try to not wear them too much. They’re the type of shoe that, if you want it, if you don’t want to get them too dirty, you don’t use them too much.

Right now I’m reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it’s my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.

I’m a shoe geek.

At the end of the day, we all know what the Jordan logo means, and you can’t take anything away from that. But it’s pretty cool to have my own logo on a Jordan shoe.

Why we cannot build a system like El Al to be proactive. Why do we have only to react? The shoe bomber – reaction? Take off your shoes. The Nigerian – the body scanner is a result of the Nigerian guy.

Whether it’s a bright shoe or a clutch or a lipstick, I’ve had a lot of fun using color contacts as an accessory.

You think you need the newest shoe and the newest outfit. We forget exercising is free. We forget it only takes a little bit every day.

The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.

I think what makes a really good shoe is something that you can play ball in but also something that you can wear off the court as well.

I don’t wear flip-flops, so my casual shoe is a Brooks Brothers tuxedo slipper!

My father wasn’t absolutely delighted. He wanted me to become a lawyer. I studied law, but I thought the shoe business was more exciting.

To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only.

There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the work day of a mother doesn’t include a hair making team or any consideration of your shoe.

It’s a rare thing when you read a role and have this immediate ownership over it, you have this take and this connection, and it’s not even that you feel that you’re gonna do a good job, it’s that you feel like you’ve found it. It fits, it’s natural; it’s like putting on a good shoe or something.

Some of the most inspiring moments in sports have come from players with physical defects. Tom Dempsey, born without toes on his right foot, kicked a 63-yard field goal in 1970, using a straighter, wider shoe.

I can go toe-to-toe with somebody with my shoes. But you can’t do it with LeBron, ’cause what shoe does he not have?

I believe every woman should have a flat, a really good wedge, and then the showstopper shoe.

Ozon.ru is made up of four businesses. Ozon.ru is an online retailer, O’Courier focuses on shipping, Ozon.Travel, and our most recent acquisition, Sapato, the leading online shoe and accessory retailer.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, ‘You’re finished. The shoe’s finished.’

When my shoes are killing me, I take a maxi pad and put it in the bottom of my shoe. It is better than any Dr. Scholl’s insert. That fashion tip has saved me through some long nights.

The one thing my mom will let me get is a nice shoe sometimes.

There are not a lot of athletes that are going to get their own shoe.

If you’re not that big player, then nobody’s really gonna know who you are to promote the brand. If LeBron says, ‘Go buy this shoe, it’s amazing,’ I would probably go buy it. But if some random person on the street was like, ‘Hey, go buy this shoe,’ I probably wouldn’t.

There was one challenge where Murr took a guy’s sock off his shoe and put it in his mouth. I couldn’t believe he did that.

For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.

There are two industry secrets to surviving a long day on camera on the red carpet: First, no drinking the night before – ever. You can celebrate after with some bubbly. Second is make sure to use shoe insoles. I don’t care if you are a guy or a girl, dress shoes are painful. Worth it, but painful.

The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.

Someday, I’d like to create a fashionable dance shoe.

Shopping is a lot of fun, but I hate trying on clothes because I think I’ve done too many costume fittings and trials. I hate trying on clothes. Shoes I love. I mean, I love shoes. Anywhere, any place, any time, you take me to a shoe store.

Once, in a magazine interview, I said the difference between shoe ladies and bag ladies is that shoe ladies are just a bit classier. Finished! That started World War III among all the women I knew. I only meant that shoes do more for your look and body than bags do!

I’ve never owned an actual trail-running shoe myself, but maybe I should. My favorite paths are fraught with peril, much of it skulking at shoelace level. A rock, a root, an errant pine cone. Wham, and you’re down, choking in dust and picking pebbles from wounds in your forearms and knees.

I love a cool bralette paired with a high-waisted jean, maybe with Chanel suspenders and a good platform shoe.

I hate the marketing side of business where, ‘Oh let’s do a shoe for this clientele or for the Chinese or for the Japanese.’ We’re doing the same products for everyone.

My choice of shoe upsets people a lot more than my filthy mouth.

Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe.

Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him ’tis well made?

I used to run barefoot in my village some time back. Now, I have a branded shoe with my name on it.

I’m a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.

I love and admire the American culture and the American dream. I learnt so many things about the American shoe industry and marketing strategies. I caught the secrets of American casual wear, that is elegant and wearable, retro and modern, and mixed it with an Italian touch, luxurious and handmade.

To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant, and I ignore the paranoid. If the shoe fits anyone, wear it.

I’m still an athlete at heart, so I always want that comfort and something that feels like an athletic shoe.

Allen Edmonds makes stylish, comfortable shoes and after getting to know some people there, they asked if I wanted to co-design a shoe. I visited the factory, met with some designers and together we came up with something that I think is a good, solid staple for any wardrobe.

I collect… for a long time, I collected Nike Air Max 90s, this specific shoe. And it really is nerdy, because collecting sneakers is not that nerdy, but if you don’t wear them, and you keep the box fresh, if you’re that fanatical about it, then you leap several categories into super-dork, and that’s the way I was.