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.

Phyllis Diller

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

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.

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.

Dave Barry

If everybody were a guy, the human race could easily get by on less than one twentieth the current number of shoes.

Cary Grant

It's better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones.

Carolina Herrera

People get nervous accessorising, but there is nothing wrong with adding a belt or a pair of shoes in another colour.

Carolina Herrera

Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.

Caitlin Moran

A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

Bill Richardson

John McCain will pay hundreds of dollars for his own shoes. But we're the ones who have to pay for his flip-flops.

Kurt Eichenwald

By the dawn of the millennium, the hallways at Microsoft were no longer home to barefoot programmers in Hawaiian shirts working through nights and weekends toward a common goal of excellence; instead, life behind the thick corporate walls had become staid and brutish.

Theo Brown

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

Ruth Reichl

You look at the Barefoot Contessa or Lydia Bastianich, and it's just like watching your mother cooking.

Evangeline Lilly

When I hear the words 'Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,' I think, 'What. A. Dream.' There are no negative connotations to it.

Rick Roseman

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

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.

Tori Amos

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

Grace Gealey

I used to run around barefoot and climb trees and pick fruit and sell it on the side of the road like a real island girl.

Miranda Kerr

I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But that's only because people only see that side of me when I'm at work, in front of the camera. So they don't see Miranda at home; they don't see behind the scenes. They see the glamour of it all but they don't see Miranda standing barefoot in a dirty old house.