Heels Quotes by Dana Carvey, Oti Mabuse, Maia Mitchell, Emily Maitlis, Jennette McCurdy, Stephan Pastis and many others.
The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles’ heel. But if you don’t need money and you don’t need fame, then you’re free.
I have different styles of shoe for different dances and I love sneakers, flats, platforms, heels, boots. Especially my thigh-high black leather boots from Kurt Geiger.
I don’t want to be that girl hobbling around in heels, falling in snow.
I have worked out I can quite happily jog the distance to work as long as I hail a cab first and leave my high heels on the back seat.
Oh yeah, I’m definitely a tomboy! I love sports, hate dresses, don’t own a single pair of high-heels, am not a fan of makeup, and I’m not afraid to get messy!
The only thing I learn on a daily basis from law school is that I disliked it and the law so much that it’s constantly this fire at my heels.
I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city and I think, I should make more of an effort. I should look like that. But then I think, They can’t be happy in those heels.
In Italy, especially in ’70s and ’80s, there was a lot of racism between north and south. And my mom immigrated from the south to the north, from Puglia, the heel of Italy. But what made me feel different was society, not my family.
With hair, heels, and attitude, honey, I am through the roof.
I wear chunky sneakers all the time. I cannot walk in heels.
Heels are really hard to wear. I feel bad for every girl that has to wear heels or chooses to wear heels. They’re not fun.
My style offstage is so different from onstage. I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.
The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox.
I like so much wearing heels, legs look so much better, everything looks better. But it’s only recently I’ve had the courage to do that.
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, ‘Where’s the fun? Where’s the glamour?
Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.
I was born in platform heels. I actually always fall down when I’m wearing flip-flops.
Time wounds all heels.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.
Slow down. Stop trying to do everything now, now, now. Hold up the people behind you for all you care, feel them kicking at your heels but maintain your pace. Don’t let anybody dictate your speed.
A new restaurant here in Southern California requires women to wear high heels. I’m outraged! This is sexist! Why just the women?
I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
There’s nothing a man can do, that I can’t do better and in heels
The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels.
The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel.
Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.
Nothing is known for sure, even the person who was there isn’t entirely sure he or she had the same response as the other in that moment. One person might have fallen head over heels, the other might have been thinking about what to have for dinner and inadvertently making eye contact.
There was a TV show called Thank Your Lucky Stars, with the catchphrase “I’ll give it five!” The Beatles and Stones were so popular when they were on it. One week The Beatles were number one and then the Stones were right on their heels.
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.
Tell Ray to put the eyeliner, the lipstick and the high heels away. I’m not saying he’s a cross-dresser, that’s just what I heard.
If you haven’t got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
This sounds crazy, but I was born in the fashion industry. So, I probably wore heels by the age of two. When I was two, I would steal my mom’s heels.
I thought that the hardest part would be the external – would be the – oh, nails and the hair and the makeup and the dress and the heels and the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And actually, that wasn’t the hardest. That was very, very, very easy for me, and I liked it.
Woody [Allen] is a fascinating character to be around. You don’t really know what he’s going to want. You’re on your toes, but you’re on your heels too, if you know what I mean.
I’ve always liked dressing up. And I love a high heel – the higher the better. I just feel funny in flats.
You see so many of these empowering songs where a woman saying, you know, I’m going to go out, I’m going to wear high heels, you know, short skirt or whatever. But the high heels are quite uncomfortable, and so how good about yourself are you really feeling walking out in high heels?
I had to wear very high heels and dance in ‘Aashiq Banaya Apne,’ and that’s very difficult.
I can tell women’s confidence levels rise when they wear heels.
The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.
I felt like an ugly duckling back in school. I was a complete tomboy with short hair. Never in my dreams did I imagine that I would walk the ramp with 6-inch heels. My friends can’t believe that I’m an actor, because I was such an introvert in school.
I remember being about 14 when I started wearing shorts and heels. I hated the attention I got. I found it overwhelming.
I like a bit quirky, a bit strange, but then at the same time, I love putting a dress on… and a pair of high heels. It’s like a costume.
Every movie that I’m in is very different in terms of aesthetic and costume. I mean, from ‘Mirror, Mirror’ to ‘Mortal Instruments,’ I went from dressy dresses to leather and heels and tight, sexy, chic outfits.
Part of what made ‘The Bling Ring’ such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we’d never pick in real life – like for the nightclub scenes, we’d have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what – I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!
It’s in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, ‘Cause I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s me.
Appearing in ‘Legally Blonde’ has helped me find my inner girl, although at the beginning the director was constantly telling me off for sitting like a boy, with my legs apart, while wearing a cocktail dress and heels!
If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.
Life – life – let there be life!
Better a thousand times the roaring hours
When wave and wind,
Like the Arch-Murderer in flight
From the Avenger at his heel,
Storm through the desolate fastnesses
And wild waste places of the world!
Better a thousand times the roaring hours
When wave and wind,
Like the Arch-Murderer in flight
From the Avenger at his heel,
Storm through the desolate fastnesses
And wild waste places of the world!
I wear heels. It’s not for a fashion statement, it’s… ammunition.
I wanted to create flats that are as chic as heels – flats you don’t have to apologize for.
I am a professional transvestite, so I can run about in heels and not fall over.
I wouldn’t take it as a compliment if someone looked at one of my shoes and said, ‘Oh, that looks like a comfortable shoe.’ There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don’t have to walk in high heels.
I’m still trying to understand the wearing off high heels at the airport.
I go back to the rock n’ roll black leather jacket, red lips, smoky eyes. I like my high heels, maybe some leather pants or ripped jeans, things that have never really gone out of style. Again, it’s very reflective of who I am as a bandmate in our band.
High heels are like a beauty lift. In a flat, you can feel beautiful, but a stiletto changes your mood, how you move – like a wild, beautiful animal. The idea was always to follow a woman’s wardrobe, her desires.
The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it’s managed responsibly.
There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don’t have to walk in high heels.
I’m really excited for people to be able to see what else I can do besides high heels and magic powers.
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other’s heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human beings
If I’m going dancing, then I wear the highest heels with the shortest dress.
I pretty much only wear high heels.
I didn’t really know how to write jokes, so I just told weird, long stories about being tall and beautiful and wealthy in New York. I’d tell them very seriously, but I kind of looked like a drag queen at the time with big wigs and crazy 12-inch platform heels.
A man in high heels is the most dangerous thing in the world.
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.
When you’re walking in heels in a long dress, you’re bound to fall at some point.
Uggs can be as chic as heels for women.
I’m really good with sweats, not really good with heels, and not really good with accessorizing yet.
Influence follows close upon the heels of character; and whatever we are, that we shall in the end be acknowledged to be.
My best successes came on the heels of failures.
Men go to a fire for entertainment. When I see how eagerly men will run to a fire, whether in warm or in cold weather, by day or by night, dragging an engine at their heels, I’m astonished to perceive how good a purpose the level of excitement is made to serve.
If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.
One of my biggest Achilles’ heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there’s hope for everyone.
Have you walked around in heels? That’s a workout. But like all good gay men, I have a gym membership.
I knew immediately that this was not going to work out. Hunter is the kind of guy who dates women who wear high heels and a cocktail dress on a first date. I can’t even walk in heels, and I generally believe that someone has to earn the right to see my legs.
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
When I’m wearing too-high heels and swaying my hips, I do that Sharon Stone kind of thing – she has the sexiest walk, a New York cool thing that throws you back.
I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn’t have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
I did everything he did but backwards & in high heels.
I think its important to be able to wear flats during the day and then if you’d decide, ‘that’s it, we’re going to stay out now for the rest of the day’, you can have a pair of heels in your bag and your outfit will still look good. Something that’s day-to-night.
When I’m feeling a little low, I put on my favorite high heels to stand a little taller.
I am who I am. Why should I hide because someone might say, ‘How can she really care when she wears Chanel?’ Actually, yes, I can care about justice even in Chanel heels.
I was born in high heels and I’ve worn them ever since.
Guinevere is just head over heels and doesn’t know how to handle these new emotions that she’s feeling, as a young woman. Unfortunately, she can’t reign it all in, all the time. And, even though she tries to do the right thing and be the good girlfriend and have her morals, she slips up a little bit.
I wear heels, and it’s not for a fashion statement – it’s ammunition.
If you don’t have the confidence to fall head over heels in love, you don’t have the right to love.
I really think that some of the best heels are also those people that can really get reactions as babyfaces, too.
People get into debt head over heels because banks make it so easy to do so. Then the banks come along and act like these people who can’t or won’t pay their bills are the dregs of society.
So,high heels weren’t a modern invention. I couldn’t believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries.
Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.
Do you know how much you can learn from a mere pair of high-heels? If you don’t fall, you’ll learn a bit, but If you do fall, you’ll learn everything. If you become successful, you’ll learn a bit, but if you fail, you’ll get to learn everything. Success is the dumbest teacher, not the other way around
First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck.
I have to wear heels. There are some things that you just have to do.
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
No one wears high heels all day, every day.
My faith in my filmmaking changed on the heels of ‘Titan.’ It allowed me to pursue things that I previously would have questioned.
I love wearing heels.
I grew up loving, like, ‘Pretty Woman,’ ‘How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days’ – which is one of my favorites – ‘Head Over Heels.’
Once upon a time, I was morbidly sensitive about the impertinence born of sociology. Taxi drivers would not stop for me after dark; white girls jogged to keep ahead of my shadow thrown at their heels by the amber street lamps. Part of me didn’t blame them, but most of me was hurt.
I never wore high heels in my hometown.
High heels weren’t always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
And knife making is as much art as science, as far as I’m concerned: Forging metals from an old farm tool into a blade thin enough to effortlessly cut a tomato yet strong enough to mince ginger, all while looking beautiful, is comparable to Ginger Rogers dancing backwards in heels.
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
I love thigh highs, heels, shorts, or a skirt.
To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.
I have high heels in my bags if I need them for a shoot. But I like sneakers. I like being comfortable. I like to sit on the floor with my team and work. I don’t like to sit in fancy chairs. It’s really important to the culture of my company that people understand who they’re working for.
What you wear – and it always starts with your shoes – determines what kind of character you are. A woman who wears high heels carries herself very different to a girl who wears sneakers or sandals. It really helps determine how you carry yourself.
I don’t switch my act up to win over the crowd. I’m more like, ‘You came here… this is what I do.’ I dig my heels in harder if I feel like they are not on board.
You know, I love wearing heels. I wish I could wear them all the time, but, you know, my sport doesn’t really permit it.
I believe time wounds all heels.
The fact is that Sarah Palin positively emanates strength. She gives off the aura of being a strong woman who doesn’t back down, and she does it sporting heels and wearing her family like a badge of honour. I am sure there are a million other women out there who are doing the same thing.
I’m really excited for people to be able to see what else I can do, besides high heels and magic powers.
The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, ‘They’re like sneakers.’ No, they’re like heels is what they’re like. That’s like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It’s not.
Falling head over heels in love with women was a habit I thought I’d thoroughly grown out of in middle school, when a group of about five girls and I color-coordinated our outfits and spent weekends and even some weeknights sprawled out in each others bedrooms.
I can say that if you’re a writer who happens to be a woman, you’ll get a book cover that depicts a woman with no head, or a woman turning away, or a pair of high heels. You have to fight to not get stuck with these covers. In the U.S. women are chick-lit writers unless they prove otherwise, and that’s frustrating.
I couldn’t wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom’s stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.
I just can’t do heels any more. At least not when I’m working. I travel a lot.
I say I’m 5 feet 12 inches. I’m definitely 6 feet. In my heels, I’m 6 feet 3 inches.
Five inches of snow in five inch heels, you can’t look sexy and you can’t look like you know what you’re doing because you’re fall.
I really have not so much sympathy. If Tina Turner and Prince’s back-up band can perform on stage in them for three hours, you can’t tell me they are impossible to walk in. High heels are pleasure with pain. If you can’t walk in them, don’t wear them.
They asked me why I was wearing heels, and I said, I’m trying to hide my ass. They gave me a prosthetic behind.
Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can’t resist the gravity of alternate worlds.
Five pieces every girl needs in her closet are; a great pair of a jeans, a good black heel, a great little black dress, tank tops for layering, and a jacket that can be worn day or night.
I always look at a girls shoes. And if they’re wearing heels, i wonder how she would look if she was just wearing those.
My bikini, a pair of black high heels and a pair of comfortable jeans.
I was known as a dogged, unflappable live reporter, the kind who runs barefoot to the camera, high heels in one hand, notebook in the other.
I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world’s eyes As though they’d wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there’s more enterprise In walking naked.
There are two ways of doing battle against Disgrace. You may live it down; or you may run away from it and hide. The first method is heart-breaking, but sure. The second cannot be relied upon because of the uncomfortable way Disgrace has of turning up at your heels.
[John Kerry] actually stole my line because when I became Secretary of State, I said, ‘I hope my heels will fill Warren Christopher’s shoes.’ So he reversed that.
Not many people know this, but I literally own only one pair of heels!
Although my mother didn’t necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn’t want me to be self-conscious about my height – or to slouch.
Rangers are definitely on the back heel now
There never seems to be any trouble brewing around a bar until a woman puts that high heel over the brass rail. Don’t ask me why, but somehow women at bars seem to create trouble among men.
~As a working mother high heels don’t really fit into my life anymore – but in a totally wonderful way. I would much rather think about my son than myself.~
I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels.
When someone said, ‘Let’s go to a club’ in New York, it often meant heels and tight dresses and money.
High heels are pleasure with pain.
Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.
If it is true, as used to be said, that oversalting means the cook is in love, at least one cook at Le Cirque must be head over heels.
It’s true. It’s like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it’s so easy. it’s like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along.
It’s very important with an artificial leg that all high heels are exactly the same height.
Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.
I love heels, and as a size 36, I’ve accumulated a wall of amazing high heels from catwalk shows over the years where designers had to make especially small shoes. Tom Ford’s golden versions are my favourite. I do, however, also live in my flat Saint Laurent Chelsea boots or Givenchy sneakers.
Keep it simple. Layer your leotard with high waisted skinny jeans, legwarmers, and heels or high boots.
At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears high heels for herself but not for men.
I’ve always been someone who’s extremely relaxed in my everyday life. I’m not the girl who can wear awful seven-inch heels all night. I keep it simple – I consider myself to be a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl who just accessorizes a lot.
I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn’t ashamed of being tall. But I don’t wear them any more because you don’t have to wear heels to be beautiful. I can’t even remember the last time I wore heels.
I think if I could be any superhero, it’d probably be my mom…but I don’t think I’d look too good in high heels, so it’s not gonna happen.
My kids are funny. They won’t eat the heels on a loaf of bread. So I patiently explained to them that they eat rolls, and rolls are all crust, just like heels…and now they won’t eat rolls!
I honestly find it easier to dance about in heels than I do to walk down the street in them.
If you’re looking for a dress to wear to an event, put it on with the heels that you’re going to wear and walk around the room and make sure you feel comfortable in it.
Men sucked. They were the root of every problem any woman could ever have. They were the reason for bras, the need for makeup, hair stylists, shaving legs, and high heels that made the arch feel like it had a steel rod slammed up it. They were picky, arrogant, argumentative, and so damned certain of themselves .
Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall.
My go-to shoes for red-carpet events are usually always black, but I mix between my pointed stilettos and platform heels.
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy’s heels.
Running in heels can be treacherous, and don’t get me started on fake eyelashes!
I might put a nicer pair of heels on and a cooler outfit, but I’m still that naughty girl who likes a slice of cheesecake on my day off.
I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.
I’m a sneaker head. You’ll find more sneakers than heels in my closet.
Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.
Rain is my lover, my apple strudel. / It haunts my heels like a pedigreed poodle. / Beyond the seas or across the nation, / It follows me faithful on every vacation.
My day look is usually a good pair of jeans, my boots, and a cute T-shirt, but I love to get all dolled up in a dress and heels to go out.
I think it’s so cool to be tall. Even when I’m not wearing heels people tell me I’m tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room.
A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin.
That’s a male pornographic fantasy that we’re buttoned-up all day and let our boobs hang out at night. The truth is, some girls are very girly and feminine, and they love to wear makeup and high heels. Other girls are more tomboyish, and they don’t.
When I’m not working, I just like to be comfortable: I love black, nothing tight, no heels, no make-up – it’s nice to be able to breathe!
The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel. Over the cage floor the horizons come.
We won’t just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.
While performing, I can’t wear anything that I’m not going to be able to dance in or heels that don’t have ankle support.
On a very practical level, I’ve learned the importance of circulation socks for planes. I had this awful experience of getting off a flight to go to an event and my feet had swelled. Try getting into heels then! So you put on the socks for the flight, then you can wear whatever heels you want.
I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.
I’m the girl who’s like, ‘Why wear heels when I can wear tennis shoes and be comfortable?’ I’ve always been the girl who’s like, ‘Let’s go play basketball.
Men in high heels? That’s a prosthesis. But I sympathise. Women have these giant heels. They get taller and taller. The men need help. But a man in heels is ridiculous.
I don’t like kitten heels. I just don’t think they are an attractive shoe because they always look so stumpy. And I would never wear cowboy boots: a pointy toe and little heel is just not my thing.
I love heels. I remember the first time I saw a pair of heels my mum said: ‘You’re not wearing those. They’re too high!’
Christmas parties for me are less about a sparkly dress and heels and more about the most ridiculous Christmas jumper I can find.
On the ‘Revenge’ set, even if they’re not showing my feet, I’ll still wear my heels because it gets me in the feeling of Ashley Davenport.
Beautiful feet are coveted by all women, everywhere of all ages, especially when they want to look their best and show off those strappy heels.
Actually… I’m starting a new thing and rebelling against ridiculously high heels. It’s inhumane.
I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I’m such a short little thing, I can’t reach my kitchen cabinets.
If people know anything about Russians, we do things really over the top. We wear high heels everywhere. We show up in the most extravagant outfits. I am just embodying how I was raised and what I grew up in. Some people might think we’re extra; I just think we’re ravishing.
I like individuality in fashion – it annoys me when celebrities put on a bodycon dress and a pair of high heels and suddenly they are ‘style icons.’
Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.
Always wear high heels. Yes, they give you power. you move differently, sit differently and even speak differently.
These are very confusing times. For the first time in history a woman is expected to combine: intelligence with a sharp hairdo, a raised consciousness with high heels, and an open, nonsexist relationship with a tan guy who has a great bod.
I do not improvise in heels.
There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing heel of poverty has worn down harder on children of color…We must fight back.
I hate kitten heels; they’re useless. Either wear heels that are dangerous, or don’t wear them at all.
Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.
I feel most glamorous in tight-fitting dresses that hug my curves, and the highest heels.
It was only when I started to dig my heels in that I started to realize that’s what I needed to do – that nobody was going to open the door for me, that I had to make some space.
My style is ghetto chic. I love tacky jewelry, mega heels, high-waisted shorts, catsuits.
I wear a lot of black, knitwear, skinny jeans and very high heels. My mum used to work for a fashion designer making knitwear, so she knits me lots of chunky scarves, hats and gloves, which I love.
If you look at the history of wrestling, what makes heels great is their ridiculous statements.
I like to be creative with my red carpet outfits, but equally, sometimes I am just in the mood to go all out with a ball gown and heels – but only If you get me on the right day!
I’m more comfortable in heels than I am in sneakers.
It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things; or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel.
I have a very basic leg. But it has a silicon cover on it. I have a flat foot leg, a high heel leg and then I have a leg which, in the winter, I have to ski in and in the summer I swap it into my roller blades.
Who says we didn’t have controversial subjects on TV back in my time? Remember Bonanza? It was about three guys in high heels living together
Another solid run through Central Park. Admittedly, six miles turns out to be a bad idea after a full day in heels!
I would love to design my own shoe line. Women suffer too much in heels. I want to design a line of sexy platform heels that don’t hurt.
One moves more slowly in heels. Walking fast is neither sexy nor engaging. Nobody notices the people who race around. If you’re walking in heels, you’ve got time. It’s much more attractive.
When my kids are in college, maybe I’ll drag my fishnets and high heels out.
Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels…. Such is the real nature of horses.
I’m used to a lot of love scenes. I’m used to something that requires me to kick up my heels and wink-wink, flirt-flirt with a twirl of my skirt.
I always travel with a fun skirt, a go-to dress you can dress up or down; walking heels & flats are a must.
It’s fun being on a TV show and not having to wear heels.
As a child, I was prancing around in my mother’s high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing ‘Material Girl’ into my hairbrush.
Nothing has man invented yet that will do a better job than heels at making a good pair of legs look great, or great ones look fabulous.
It was fun to dance in heels, and personally, I love dancing.
I am so not a proper, good female. I can’t dance in high heels and I’m just so not girly, but then I see these men with these banging bodies, dancing in heels, singing, and having so much fun with so much make-up on. That makes me honestly want to be a better woman.
I do love wearing heels but my feet can’t be in them all day long. I want to have fun and dance so I need to be comfortable.
Not everybody can say they wore heels in Paris Hilton’s closet.
For five years of my life, I was just getting by – every day was painful. I couldn’t wear heels, I couldn’t run, and I could only walk for, like, 20 minutes. That’s not living.
I’m the girl who’s like, ‘Why wear heels when I can wear tennis shoes and be comfortable?’ I’ve always been the girl who’s like, ‘Let’s go play basketball.’
At least once in their life, every man should feel what it’s like to wear high heels.
I don’t wear heels every day, but when I’m out, that’s how I feel confident.
There’s nothing like a good pair of heels.
I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I found such thoughtful and literate reportage on the state of the American soul, as that soul makes itself known in the books we write.
Benvolio- “By my head, here come the Capulets.” Mercutio- “By my heel, I care not.
I prefer jeans to a suit, sneakers to high heels, markets to malls.
I came along the decade after the generation where a lot of heels were still getting stabbed, so I was always looking for it. I had a bullet-proof vest in a couple places.
Is there anything more attractive than a woman in high heels and low self esteem?
I design flats like I design heels: They must be seductive, beautiful and comfortable.
Girls can do everything men can do…just backwards and in heels
I don’t think it’s the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
What does it matter if a few barking dogs snap at the heels of the weary travelers? … The caravan moves on
If you’re short, don’t wear extremely high heels. After a certain age, you shouldn’t wear little girls’ clothes. That’s going against your nature.
I only wear heels when a stylist puts me in them.
Luke moved as silently as fog, while Maryse’s heels sounded like gunshots on the marble floor. Clary wondered if Isabelle’s propensity for unsuitable footwear was genetic.
I live in heels. Give me a pair of flip-flops and I’ll trip all over myself.
Most people feel weird about white heels, but I love them and wear them with everything, especially when I need to mix up an all-black outfit.
Our TV and movie cops are usually in heels and pencil skirts.
I really associate glamor with being happy. If you put on high heels and lipstick or get a new outfit, you feel great.
We are not doomed to an ultimate conflict with no hope of resolution. The message of the Scripture is one of victory – full, final and ultimate victory. It is not our doom that is certain, but Satan’s. His head has been crushed by the heel of Christ, who is the Alpha and Omega.
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: “As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.
Fashion brings out what you are inside. A lot of people think it’s got to be blue jeans, a Black coat, three inch heels. But it doesn’t have to be like that. I enjoy just going for it
If I had my way, I’d wear jewelry, a great pair of heels and nothing else.
I’m always running up and down buildings or around 800-acre properties for work – you can’t do that in heels or flip-flops!
I’m all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
Anybody who can step out of the house with a pair of heels and some lipstick on their lips is my hero.
Despite my love affair with skyscraper heels, luckily for my feet I rarely wear them – preferring, instead, the comfort and child-handling practicalities of a pair of trainers.
Women boxers prefer to focus on the win rather than the bravado. We’ve come a long way. In the ’90s, you only ever saw women parading in heels and a bikini holding a scorecard. Now we’re owning it; we should get some male models in Speedos to do the ring walk.
I’m one of those girls that, day-to-day, I’m in trainers or Converse. I have about 50 pairs of trainers, so when I get the chance to dress up, I will definitely be in heels. 100 percent. I might take some battered Converse in my bag to wear at the after-party when my feet are tired.
I would splurge on a great pair of high heels, because you can wear them to something fancy, but regular clothes? I’d rather go on a trip than spend $10,000 on clothes, and fly first class as a treat.
I’m always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage.
What is sexual in a high heel is the arch of the foot, because it is exactly the position of a woman’s foot when she orgasms… So putting your foot in a heel, you are putting yourself in a possibly orgasmic situation.
I hate my feet. I don’t like my hands, either: they’re like lions’ paws. When I was in the Boosh, in a catsuit and gold heels, I was constantly thinking, ‘I hate the way I look.’ I should have just enjoyed myself, because that was as good as it was going to get.
All young people want to kick up their heels and defy convention; most of them would prefer to do it at a not too heavy cost.
Have I ever told you how scary it is that you think of heels in terms of their possible shiv potential?
Joy cannot be held at heel: it must be let go. Joy is a pilgrim virtue. It is a gift that walks, walks on the path of life, that walks with Jesus: preaching, proclaiming Jesus, proclaiming joy, lengthens and widens that path.
It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.
If I’m DJing a show, I will normally wear the designer I’m DJing for; if I’m DJing a party, I will most likely be wearing very high heels.
It’s unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who’s wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you’re looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.
During that Grammy moment, when I nearly collapsed, I was thinking, Are you kidding me? I’ve always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant, I could perform in heels. Note to self: Never wear a train onstage.
The highest heels I do are six-inch heels – but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes. Their feet are arched.
Who doesn’t want to be, like, five inches taller whenever they can be? If boys could, they’d be wearing heels.
It’s women who have embraced their own sexuality, it’s why women wear makeup, it’s why they wear high heels. It’s what civilization is all about.
From the first time I harangued my mother into buying me a pair of platform sandals at the irascible and persistent age of 11, I’ve worn heels.
I’ve worn my share of dresses and heels in my career. It’s easy. It’s not very challenging. It’s not fulfilling.
I got my red dress on tonight
Dancing in the dark in the pale moonlight
Done my hair up real big beauty queen style
High heels off, I’m feeling alive
Dancing in the dark in the pale moonlight
Done my hair up real big beauty queen style
High heels off, I’m feeling alive
We shouldn’t demonize the woman who wears high heels and we shouldn’t demonize the woman who doesn’t wear high heels. We should accept all forms of comportment.
I don’t have any rules about what to wear when I go out. I go through phases. Sometimes I’ll go out in jeans and a top and not even wear heels. Sometimes I want to be more sexy, in a dress and heels.
I love fast cars, loud guns and classic rock ‘n’ roll, but I’d never do any of it in
flats. I love me a nice, big uncomfortable pair of heels and some big hair! Maybe
it’s a Southern thing, but I love dressing up. It’s everything I can do not to leave
the house in a goddamn prom dress every day.
flats. I love me a nice, big uncomfortable pair of heels and some big hair! Maybe
it’s a Southern thing, but I love dressing up. It’s everything I can do not to leave
the house in a goddamn prom dress every day.
I try to wear a dress and heels when I want to make more of an effort and be a bit more feminine.
I like to wear colourful clothes because they make me feel happy: short-shorts with funky tights and big jumpers are what I’m into. And I wear most things with hi-top trainers – I’m not a huge fan of heels.
I am not looking for a life partner right now. But if I’ve to list out the requirements, I have a huge list. But the first requirement is he should be tall and should be taller than me; even I wear heels.
I always knew where I needed to go but I sometimes had a problem getting there, so I had to work harder at it. Once in a while I’d wanna take off the blouse and heels because I’d get that “I just wanna be a guy” feeling I had when growing up.
I think a lot of people know me for just wearing cut-off denim shorts, an oversized white T-shirt with a pair of high-heels. I usually do wear basic stuff. Jeans and a white T is my go-to look.
I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.
Every stylish girl knows that when the sun goes down, the heel goes up.
I am just as comfortable in sweats and sneakers as I am in a dress and heels. Attitude is everything!
I have a black pair of suede Jimmy Choos. I’ve only worn them once to a Sony event. The heels have these arrow plates in a pattern. There’s gold, black and white and they’re amazing!
As the saying goes, I have big heels to fill.
Literally, these [heels] slow you down.
War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.
I thought we came out with too much respect at the beginning of the game and were on our heels instead of coming out attacking the way we did the last few games without Ricky and Kevin.
I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels – and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness.
I can be an incredibly fabulous person, and I don’t have to be in the highest heels, the tallest wig, the skimpiest outfit.
One thing I quickly discovered as a female pilot – ditch the heels!
I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That’s why I tend not to wear heels.
Prince would have been the person I thought would live forever because of the way he took care of himself – not counting the fact he jumped off risers in 6-inch heels. He probably had fractures from his feet all the way up to his head.
I’d already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?
I’m working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, ‘Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.
I actually think I think better in high heels.
I, a woman, find wearing high heels agreeable only on the very rare occasion that (1) I will be ferried between destinations upon a palanquin or (2) I am going to a cocktail party and, at five feet two, don’t want to spend the evening discussing the latest movies with somebody’s nipples.
People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.
But don’t tell me I’m not sensitive to beauty. That’s my Achilles’ heel, and don’t you forget it. To me, everything is beautiful. Show me a pink sunset and I’m limp, by God.
I never have had blonde hair. I have never had straight hair. I never wear pink clothes or spray tan and I never wore heels to school.
I couldn’t care less about walking down the red carpet in a pair of heels and a posh frock. I’d rather be in my pyjamas at home.
My women students openly admit that they dress for interviews like dates, hoping to look their best: makeup, high heels, a well-fitting suit that shows off their figure. And I always tell them to make sure to wear a shirt under the suit jacket. Form fitting, yes. Cleavage, no.
I like to wear classic silhouettes and add a punch to it. I’ll wear a high-waist legging and a super-crop top or a see-through top with a nice bra underneath. And I just always try to mix it up with heels or something.
I love heels! I especially like heels by Nicholas Kirkwood, Jimmy Choo and Moschino.
Well, you won’t unless you come to lunch with me,” Cal said. “I’m holding it for ransom. There’s a gun to its heel right now.” “I have lunch at my desk,” Min began, and thought,Oh, for crying out loud, could I beany more pathetic ? “Emilio is experimenting with a lunch menu. He needs you. I need you.
People say I’m wearing heels because I’m short. I wear heels because the women like ’em.
You want to enjoy your night, and you don’t want to suffer in your heels too long. Lipstick compensates for the lack of heels. It’s a good option, and it works.
I feel most bossy in jeans, a white t-shirt, a leather jacket and some heels. I just feel bossy that way. I also feel confident in a sick dress at a premiere. Like most women, as long as I’m comfortable in it, I feel confident.
Men don’t wear high heels, and they don’t make allowances for women who do. Tottering down the corridors of power in beautiful but crippling stilettos telegraphs your preference for style over substance.
When liberals start acting like they’re opposed to pre-marital sex and mothers having careers, you know McCain’s vice presidential choice has knocked them back on their heels.
I don’t actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that it’s painful, so it’s gotta do something.
Usually, what I do if I want to dress things up is I don’t go for high heels, but I go for mid-heels instead.
I just want to say, that if Jesus were alive, what would he be doing? Well, he would probably be accepting and loving people how they’re made. And I always say this and it’s really the truth. If being 4’11 was a sin, what would I do? Well, I could wear heels and I could add a wig.
It’s only over time that you get to exploring or adding nuances to the character. Like my part in ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’ – I am so not the person who wears high heels and totters about like a poodle.
How I stay in shape? 12 hours a day in heels, I’m, literally moving all day long in heels.
Oh, completely liberating because even if you don’t do a woman right, you just have to put on high heels a wig, a bra and a dress, and I feel liberated.
Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.
I’m very clumsy, so I learned to walk very slowly wearing heels every day.
Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone; peace to our children when they fall in small war on the heel of small war–until the end of time to police the earth, a ghost orbiting forever lost in our monotonous sublime
Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the ‘ins’ and the ‘outs’ change places with the speed of mach 3.
For women raised in the ’70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they’re associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.
The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle’s wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.
You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.
Here’s your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute – often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.
I can be an incredibly fabulous person, and I don’t have to be in the highest heels, the tallest wig, the skimpiest outfit. I can let other things speak for me now.
Why don’t you click your heels three times and go back to Africa.
I really like crop tops. I like how you can dress them up or down, with jeans or a skirt and heels. I like to be showy and cute. I don’t want to be in just a jacket and pants and boots.
Wearing a corset, a ball gown, heels and a swan hat with wings to fight in the forest gave me a whole new appreciation for everyday clothes, because you really become that alter ego while wearing those costumes in those environments on the set. They just influenced everything you tried to do.
I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way. Sense of humor is definitely important. And sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins. Sunglasses and a great pair of heels can turn most outfits around.
For anyone who has ever stood before a bathroom mirror and secretly thanked The
Academy, a hilarious guide to becoming ‘It’ in an age where the line between fame
and infamy is as fine as a Manolo Blahnik stiletto heel.
Academy, a hilarious guide to becoming ‘It’ in an age where the line between fame
and infamy is as fine as a Manolo Blahnik stiletto heel.
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
Lightnin’ Hopkins taught us, “the rubber on a wheel is faster than the rubber on a heel” and Muddy Waters taught us “you don’t have to be the best one; just be a good ‘un” .. that just about says it all, always strive to be a good ‘un.
Putting facts by the thousands, into the world, the toes take off with an appealing squeak which the thumping heel follows confidentially, the way men greet men. Sometimes walking is just such elated pumping.
I’m not really a girlie. I can be once in a while, but then I tend to fall off the heels.
For shoes I try to choose a bootie style and opt for a heel that looks good but allows me to get around.
I did ride a bike on the streets of Manhattan with four-and-a-half inch heels. Is that fun… or a death wish? You tell me. I was in severe pain, and everyone was laughing at me. That was great. I like when people laugh at me when I’m in pain.
The Organization of American States couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.
I’m very sensitive. Because my mum was my primary emotional caregiver growing up, I found myself being pinned into dresses, darting her dresses, choosing her high heels for the evening or what to wear. I’m very much a mommy’s boy.
I am still head over heels in love with my Kohinoor, Yousuf Sahab, the way I was when I first felt attracted to him as a 12 year-old.
I’m a director, but I gotta have the hair, the makeup and the heels. My mother would be appalled if I didn’t dress up.
I don’t know any neighborhoods where everyone’s walking around in seven-inch heels and perfect makeup.
Style depends more on how you carry yourself in the clothes than the clothes alone, but a killer pair of heels doesn’t hurt.
And the people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man’s got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That’s oppression, that is. If I’m not under the heel of the oppressor, I don’t know who is.
The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.
By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that’s not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don’t sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that’s all fine.
I know historians aren’t supposed to fall in love with their own theories, but I was head over heels about the notion of an entire band of female French agents, like a nineteenth-century Charlie’s Angels. Only better. It made the Pink Carnation’s organization look positively humdrum.
…make time for one another. Don’t forget about those date nights. Put on a sexy dress and some sexy high heels and have a great night and enjoy each other. Also, incorporate your husband. Get him involved and let him know how important he is with taking care of your joy.
High heels empower women in a way.
I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses?
Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on
the heel that crushes it.
the heel that crushes it.
If you’re wearing ballerina flats during the day, throw on a pair of strappy sandals with a heel on them and some little bangles and you can go from day to evening really just with a change of accessories.
Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
Dancing is still the hardest profession. Gene Kelly said dancing is a man’s game Women have to do the same thing in heels, and have to sing and smile at the same time. Professional athletes don’t even have to do that – and they get to wear sneakers.
I still get butterflies when I’m doing a runway show. The music starts, you’re wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.
I’ll never forget the dance number that I shot with Anushka. The choreography involved a lot of intricate dance moves. I’m at least 7 inches shorter than Anushka, so I had to wear the highest heels I’ve ever worn in my life; throughout the song, I even injured my knee a couple of times.
you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.
Drag queens in the UK, they survive it all – there’s a hen party, a stag party, people throwing beer bottles. They work not on their heels, but on their wits.
To be honest, I’m more of a sneaker person. My legs hurt if I wear heels for too long.
Tailored jackets with jeans is a great look for all ages. Dress up with a heel and pretty shirt, or just wear a smart T-shirt under the jacket.
One of the big misconceptions about me is that I walk around in mini-skirts and high heels twenty-four seven and go to the gym in heels.
Leather, high heels, and a bad attitude. Here I come.
Keep your heel, head and standards high.
It’s unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who’s wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you’re looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.
I’m not a huge dancer onstage. In fact, I like not moving at all if I don’t have to. But even just standing up for any given amount of time in 6-inch heels ends up leaving me feeling like I’ve been cracked in half like a rag doll after a few shows.
And if I don’t want you to? (Ravyn) You know, you’d look really weird in a dress and high heels. (Susan) What’s that supposed to mean? (Ravyn) It means you’re not my mother. Now stop arguing and help me find my shoes. (Susan)
When I’m in heels – and I live in heels – I take on a different posture, a different attitude, different energy.
There comes a point where certain things are becoming my Achilles heel; you know when you start repeating yourself and saying the same anecdotes over and over again you start slowly hating yourself.
Faith seems to grab people and not let go, but hope is a double-crosser. It can beat it on you anytime; it’s your job to dig in your heels and hang on. Must be nice to have hope in your pocket, like loose change you could jingle through your fingers.
I feel like heels must be a workout! I know that they’re really bad for you, but I run around in heels a lot and go up a lot of stairs, so maybe that’s my terrible workout. I know that’s not really a workout.
Donald Trump may be the loudest voice in the Republican presidential field, but on his heels is the candidate quietly surging to the front of the pack: Ben Carson.
I’m a heel man. There’s no doubt about that. I’ve always done heels for my shows, ever since the first in 2008.
I’m not a big heel person anyways, I’ll wear them on the red carpet, but I’ve always been the one who loves loafers and brogues.
I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn’t ashamed of being tall.
People associate pageants with glamour, where there are celebrities walking on the ramp wearing beautiful gowns, heels and make-up – but that’s just one aspect.
The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds.
A good man’s fortune may grow out at heels.
I was the one who taught my sister and my niece how to walk in high heels.
Red carpet is always fun, but you’re never going to see me on the street or in the grocery store in 6-inch heels. But I am always going to have big, fabulous hair and makeup.
You know, when you go to weddings, you see these guys wearing those dress shoes with extra inches of heels? I really don’t like those.
One day I decided I was a star and I would walk to school with my head held high. I would walk to school in my stilettos and high heels, listening to ‘Lucky’ by Britney Spears.
Because I knew we were going to wear five inches during the pageant, I would train with six inches. So, when it was time to wear the five-inch heels, they felt like nothing to me.
I always have a pair of heels and flats for my back-to-back hours of live shots. I’m happiest and most comfortable wearing my boots.
I’ve never been the type of singer that can sing in heels and the gown and all this stuff, because I can’t get to where I want to go while I’m in that getup.
Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.
I have been obsessed with seamed stockings my whole life, and I would collect vintage ones that were made in the ’40s and ’50s with the authentic styling of the keyhole, the welt, the reinforced toe and heels, French or Cuban heels, and hand-stitched seams.
My parents couldn’t afford physical therapy, so they sent me to dancing school. I learned how to dance in heels, which means I can walk in heels. And I’m from Jersey, and we are really concerned with being chic, so if my friends wore heels, so did I.
I appreciate my true fans for enjoying me in what I do every day, whether interviews or playing heel. They are smart and nice people.
If a French woman wears jeans, it’s never with flats – always heels.
I love heels… whoever created heels is amazing!
I wear high heels for long legs.
I don’t really believe there is such a thing as bad fashion – it is all self-expression, which used to get me into trouble when I was a little girl because I think I started wearing heels when I was about ten, and I always refused to wear matching socks.
I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, ‘Ooh, she’s so skinny and she’s wearing high heels.’ But I just wore what I like, and I didn’t care about people’s opinions, the same as I don’t care now.
You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.
Yeah, I’m nervous. I’m wearing heels in public for crying out loud.
There are only two secrets to a slimmer shape … High heels and shoulder pads!
My style during the day is very casual – boyfriend jeans, T-shirts, Converse, Uggs, whatever. At night, I love heels and thigh-highs, I like something fresh and new, and I’m not afraid to push the envelope.
I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go ‘neck and heels’ into it.
I’d like to be smart, fun, and real. It’s very easy to just put together a pretty dress, some heels, and some jewels. I don’t want to be that girl. It’s all about being brave, taking risks. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I’m on the road with my shield on my arm.
My prom dress was very sweet, very puffy, but I also wore little stiletto, pointed-toe heels, nylon hosiery, the whole nine yards.
Just like girls need to learn to be comfortable in heels before they go out in them for the first time, a man should try wearing a suit throughout a normal day. I do most things in a suit-and sometimes even in a tuxedo-and so I’m really comfortable in one.
The higher the better. It’s more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.
To feel like a woman, wear heels, to feel like a goddess, wear five inches.
The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.
I love and adore Salman Khan. Every year I see him on Bigg Boss’ and I just freeze. I’m head over heels with his eyes and smile. He is a very charming personality.
When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.
I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
I wish that I wasn’t such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.
I was an avid reader as a child. I am losing that habit now, as my brain congeals into cabbage from wearing too many heels and too much foundation.
It’s true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It’s the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
You can’t do TLC dances successfully in high heels.
When I was seven and we lived in New York, I ran away. I took my dog and started out across the Brooklyn Bridge… I didn’t get very far… It’s rather difficult to run away in your mother’s high heels.
… I stayed because running seemed too strange and too complicated. All I knew was how to fall back, find a patch of solid ground, and then dig my heels in and fight to start over.
It’s important to show that there’s different ways of doing things. Some people like to be glamorous, and that’s perfectly fine, and that’s amazing. If I were that style, then I would do that. I’d wear heels every day, and I’d strut around in a dress, but that’s not me.
I’m a master of heels. I’m used to them. I’m tiny, so I wear them all the time. Apart from to the beach. That would be slightly psycho. I’m over the top, but not that much yet.
My poor, problematic feet don’t let me wear anything much over a three- or four-inch heel.
I always wear high heels – I simply feel naked without them.
I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention – an extravagance. They’re far from natural, but it’s the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.
Well-apparel’d April on the heel
Of limping Winter treads.
Of limping Winter treads.
I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I’m literally going door to door for a function.
Sometimes it’s so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents’ house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I’m wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.
I’ve embraced comfortable, but still chic, footwear. I don’t know who I was wearing heels for – as much as I love the way they make my legs look and the power I feel when I choose to wear them – but I can do a longer and more pressing day if I’m in a shoe I can walk in.
My dream is a red dress Above my knees High-heel red sandals And me coming over the top The music booming
Hi Howie I will say
With a lovely smile I don’t want to play the game I want to be it.
Hi Howie I will say
With a lovely smile I don’t want to play the game I want to be it.
I don’t like to be too submissive in the way I dress. I like quite boyish things, so I hardly ever wear high heels.
Yeah, I screamed in Daniel Radcliffe’s face. We were both doing Letterman. I grabbed him by the shoulder. Of course, I’m in 6-inch heels. That makes me 6-foot-4. I’m towering over him, saying, ‘I love Harry Potter!’ His security people were nodding to each other – should we go?
The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were suppose to fall at their feet? Unacceptable.
Being wanted is the tender heel of everything human.
I’d rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day.
Heels, and shoes in general, are such an easy way to complete any outfit and give it that little bit of flare or edge you want.
Now, after divorce with Tom Cruise, I can wear heels.
I’m either in one of two things: high heels or cowboy boots.
It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.
Typically, I’m put in high heels and a tight top, which is not my personality at all.
I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.
They say the path of true love never runs smooth. Well, Luke and my true love’s path didn’t run at all, it limped along in new boots that were chafing its heels. Blistered and cut, red and raw, every hopping, lopsided step, a little slice of agony.
I do not care that the people is for or against me. The important thing is that I am appreciated by a response of boos or cheers. This is the important thing. it is important that people see me as a superstar talent that they want to see. I enjoy being heel.
The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact, the worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
Put a pair of high heels on a fellow and just look what he was reduced to.
A cause may be inconvenient, but it’s magnificent. It’s like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
In politics, sometimes, you dig your heels in and draw a line in the sand and refuse to compromise.
If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing — anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It’s so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.
We live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.
I cannot become who I want to be by remaining who I am. So, I decided to kick off my high heels and replace them with the shoes of a director.
I still get butterflies when I’m doing a runway show. The music starts, you’re wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.
My mom has a big ol’ crush on Arne Duncan, so I hear about and see pics of him all the time. I think he could look great in heels!
I think because I was Miss World, and I modeled for a little while, I have – I just like heels, actually. I think that’s the truth. I’m trying to find an excuse.
Time wounds all heels.
Some girls say they don’t feel comfortable in flats, they only feel comfortable in heels; I am not one of those girls.
I’m like a cartoon! I’ll look this way when I’m eighty. I can see it now, people will be rolling me around in a wheelchair and I’ll still have my big hair, nails, my high heels and my boobs stuck out!
I wore my first pair of Louboutins during this press tour. It was absolutely amazing, they weren’t heels, they were little shoes, but they were velvet and they were blue.
I feel like there’s no need to put on a heel that’s too high. There’s nothing cute about wobbling. There’s nothing cute about not wanting to dance or walk somewhere because you’re in pain.
Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.
Shut up, Nick. (Talon) ‘Shut up, Nick, heel, sit, fetch.’ Love you too, Celt. (Nick)
We run down the right fork, Manchee at our heels, the night and a dusty road stretching out in front of us, an army and a disaster behind us, me and Viola, running side by side.
It feels otherworldly to wear heels and makeup. Why fit in when you can stand out?
The trails of the world be countless, and most of the trails be tried; You tread on the heels of the many, till you come where the ways divide;And one lies safe in the sunlight, and the other is dreary and wan,But you look aslant at the Lone Trail, and the Lone Trail lures you on.
A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.
I kind of felt like maybe I didn’t have what it took to look like a supermodel and wear high heels all the time and my nails.
First of all, most traders don’t have a winning strategy. Second, even among those traders who do, many don’t follow their strategy. Trading puts pressure on weaker human traits and seems to seek out each individual’s Achilles’ heel.
Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
I think it was about 1990 when we first wore heels to perform.
When you fall head over heels for someone, you’re not falling in love with who they are as a person; you’re falling in love with your idea of love.
In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don’t just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.
The general assumption, which I think is a valid one, is that a lot of the major media were on their heels a little bit and prone to share the grief of the nation and to give Bush all the support it could.
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.
What can I say? I feel good when I’m wearing heels. I feel sexier, attractive.
When I have a big enough handbag to carry a little pair of booties with, I always do – those pointy Christian Louboutin heels are just no fun to walk around in.
I’m terrible in high heels. I’m so bad.
Take everything you can get over in center. The Dago’s heel is hurting pretty bad.
Theres a real power in heels and a good dress.
Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another’s heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder’d, wondering how it is.
Do you know how hard it is to play a character where you’re always in heels? Oh, my goodness!
You want safe? Find a nice puppy you can train to come heel. Love’s supposed to be scary. Because if there’s no fear, there’s no thrill.
When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of compensations in the knees and hips that cause tight hip flexors, and then those hip flexors cause lower-back pain.
Bringing the IRS to heel can start with re-energizing and expanding congressional investigations and holding accountable those responsible for the targeting and other abuses.
I’m still a really shy performer and can’t wear high heels and need to be with bare feet.
There’s not much to say about acting but this. Never settle back on your heels. Never relax. If you relax, the audience relaxes. And always mean everything you say.
When I was 22, I thought I couldn’t wear heels because of my height.
I’m typically not a heels person.
I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let’s get that straight right now.
Obviously, the big hits like ‘Shout,’ ‘Everybody Wants to Rule the World,’ ‘Head Over Heels,’ we play live, so there’s nothing new about them to me.
Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay.
I dig my heels in every now and then, and think ‘I’m not going to do what’s expected or what people think is the right thing.’ So I have a little bit of that in my personality.
I started wearing high heels when I first worked with Mario Testino. He is tall; I had to be at his height. And I have never stopped since then.
I feel far more empowered, sophisticated, and forward-thinking in flats than in high heels. Especially when I am working and hosting meetings.
When I played Candy Darling in ‘I Shot Andy Warhol,’ that was easy to play that part. They made me into a woman: I’m in heels; I’m waxed. I’m gonna find the femininity and lay on the bed and take the voice of an old movie star.
Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.
He’s stronger than this. He’s always been stronger… (Vane) Even the mightiest oak can be felled by a whisper of a wind if it comes on the heels of a powerful enough storm. (Carson)
If I’m dancing, I’m definitely not wearing heels. I just don’t love wearing heels. I feel it’s just a thing you have to do to keep it sexy or whatever, but I really don’t enjoy it. I just love wearing a sneaker.
A trick for looking taller is to wear a top and pants in the same color family – and to hide heels underneath the pants!
Girls can do anything, for sure. Even running in the mud in heels.
For nighttime or for an event, I’m all about the nice heel. Something that’s still walkable but definitely very elegant.
What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients?
I like heels and make-up.
I can’t wear flat shoes. My feet repel them. I was in agony. My high heels had left my feet bleeding. Laugh all you want, my feet hurt
I love heels, I’m telling you. When I walk in flats, I get knee pain.
The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.
I enjoy just showing people other sides of me, especially everyone always sees me in my helmet and ski suit. It’s nice to just show everyone me, just me in my everyday clothes or just me in high heels or just me not in my ski gear, basically.
I empathize with women in their high heels so I’ll be there in my kilt and T-shirt and I’ll walk around all day just to prove that if I can wear the shoes for 36 hours then certainly our customer can wear them.
I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I’m 5’4′, so I like kitten heels occasionally because I can move around a bit easier, but pointy-toed pumps are very elongating.
Then I thought, “No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.
Familiarity breeds attempt. Time wounds all heels. I went down on the Lower East Side today and saw all those Old Testament houses. We’re all cremated equal. We’re insufferable friends. I’ve been working my head to the bone.
Literature was not born the day when a boy crying “wolf, wolf” came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying “wolf, wolf” and there was no wolf behind him.
I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It’s like my uniform.
I smoked, I drank, I did all the kicking my heels up type things, but I went to Mass on Sunday.
Mike’s eyes narrowed shrewdly. “Don’t kid yourself, Bella. The guy’s head over heels for you.” “I know,” I sighed. “Life is complicated.” “And girls are cruel,” Mike said under his breath.
Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
You know, like high heels are not – , you know the older you get the harder it is to wear them.
When I got the call from Chippendales, my jaw dropped, as it came on the heels of TMZ calling me fat on national TV. I am passionate about health and fitness, so I’ve kept in shape, and dancing is something I’ve always enjoyed, so I figured, why not?
I have to be honest, I dont pay as much attention to womens fashion, but being a sneaker head, I do like it when a girl can rock a nice pair of sneakers. Not every girl can do it. Every girl looks good in heels – thats a given – but not every girl can look good in fresh kicks.
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
I love heels. I’m 5-foot-2, and I like feeling tall.
Being steadfast and immovable with our heels in tar on the Lord’s side of the line is the only strategy that works long-term against Lucifer.
Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina’s heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage.
When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I’m more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often.
I like to wear platform heels onstage and they’re actually hard to find. But fans started putting money in them – so now they are filled with tons of bills. It’s pretty amazing.
Even though I’m just over 5’9”, heels make me feel feminine and fierce.
The lion of anger shall give place to the lamb of meekness; the raven of uncleanness shall fly before the dove of purity; the vile serpent of deceit shall be trodden under the heel of truth.
We all know what this business can do to you… you end up walking on your heels.
He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
I always wore the highest heels possible, because the other women on the show were tall.
When I was growing up, everyone dressed the same. You had to have bootcut pants and chunky heels.
I’m in high heels, I’m wearing a fabulous dress, people want me to just smile and talk about my movie because I only have three minutes, and that’s my job.
I’m European, I wake up in heels.
I’m like one of the tallest ones on ‘Scandal.’ If I’m wearing my four-inch Abby Whelan high heels, I hover over everybody. I literally have a lower pair of high heels that I wear when I do one of the scenes with the guys.
As a breastfeeding mother you are basically just meals on heels.
The fact is, after a certain age, high heels can feel as painful as someone sticking hot pins into the soles of your feet.
I hate walking down a runway in really high heels. I’m terrible in high heels. I’m so bad.
I was always a pretty theatrical kid, a draggy kid… a little sissy. I dressed up in my grandma’s heels and clothes… It’s always been in me.
You just click your heels and think there’s no place like being pwned.
Sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins. Sunglasses and a great pair of heels can turn most outfits around.
New Year’s Eve. It’s a promise of a night. Single, married or widowed, in love, loveless or lovelorn, we all leave our apartments and pick through snow in high heels, or descend subway stairs in tuxedos, lured to wherever we’re going–whether we know it or not, would deny it or not–by the kiss of a stranger.
A proper lady should be able to smile pretty, wear sequins like she means it, and kick a man’s ass nine ways from Sunday while wearing stiletto heels. If she can’t do that much, she’s not trying hard enough.
I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.
When I was out of favor and people didn’t want that type of boot, flats, or high heels with the elegant, dainty things, it gave me much more energy.
Life’s too short to wear high heels.
Not always trainers, but if I don’t have to, I don’t wear high heels. It’s really just if something looks good on me, I’m going to buy it. It can be Zara or Chanel… I’m going to buy it.
I have to be honest, I don’t pay as much attention to women’s fashion, but being a sneaker head, I do like it when a girl can rock a nice pair of sneakers. Not every girl can do it. Every girl looks good in heels – that’s a given – but not every girl can look good in fresh kicks.
Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
Some people can go out in a tight, short dress and heels, and it works, but even if I’m going to a club, I’ve got to throw on a big hoodie or something. And that’s if you can get me into something tight in the first place.
Looking good is a commitment to yourself and to others. Wigs, killer heels, Pilates, even fillers – whatever works for you, honey.
As women, we do feel like we have to live up to an expectation, whether it’s on camera or going to the market or whatever it is. And the truth of the matter is, that’s not always the way it is. We don’t always have our high heels on, we don’t always have our makeup on.
I think I’m probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing.
I’ve seen many dig in their heels and becoming disenchanted with the church because of these kinds of denunciations from coreligionists. We have to find a better way to witness to our faith and our convictions.
Feeling I’d scarcely arrived at a style, I now find I’m near the end of it. I’m not quite sure what Late Style means except that it’s some sort of licence, a permit for ageing practitioners to kick their heels up.
I am really into color and bright clothing. When I’m wearing heels, I always like to throw some different colors into my outfit, so it doesn’t match. That gives my look a retro and funky feel.
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
If y,ou do buy shoes from wherever you like wear the hell out of them, and go to your cobbler when the heels go and get them reheeled for a few quid.
Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille’s heel, if you will.
For me, I am a really tall woman, and I am really tall in heels, and I feel bigger, and I like being bigger. I think I was a king in a past life.
I’ve always been a very good heel!
I’ve never worn flats in my life. I haven’t owned any since I was a kid. I suppose the only flats I have are the shoes I wear to the gym, but I put them on just before I start to work out… I like heels.
I’m amazed when I see mothers wearing high heels. If your kids run off you can’t run after them.
I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.
In women’s shelters the kind of clothes that women are given to go to job interviews are all girl clothes: little heels, little skirt. If you’re gender nonconforming, you’re a lesbian, you’re not going to put those clothes on to go to a job interview.
Supply always comes on the heels of demand.
If you don’t feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.
Chick-lit may be staggering on its heels, but women’s fiction is alive and kicking.
I have big feet. Do you know how embarrassing it is when you ask for a shoe and they look at you like, “No, we don’t make these heels for Bigfoot, sorry.”
Once in a while, it’s fun to dress up for a premiere. But I’m not someone that’s going to stick on heels and a dress every day.
The higher the heel, the more drastic it can get. But I do need heels to perform, which is strange. I can’t perform in flats because I’ve built up this…I don’t know, this sexual side that I find myself moving and getting into the music more when I’m feeling a little more feminine.
You can be feminine and wear heels, dresses, and makeup, and still be a powerful woman – physically, mentally, emotionally.
My weaknesses are women in high heels, freedom under siege, and ebay. (Steele)
I may not have the stereotypical head for business, but I have feet that were made for heels.
That’s a big concern right now with these storms coming on the heels of a very wet week. The soil is saturated, and the high winds that are supposed to accompany these storms could potentially knock down trees, which often take down power lines with them.
What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it’s finally caught up. I don’t need to make this stuff up.
I always like to sing barefoot, but when I first started doing these dates with the symphonies, I of course thought I should clean up my act, being a Jewish girl from Long Island with a little bit of a trucker mouth. So I wore a gown and some high heels.
I think it would be a lot easier if I said, ‘I feel like a dude,’ but I was raised by a southern mom, so I know how to put on lipstick and walk in heels and rock that look. It’s exactly that juxtaposition that confuses people.
I would like a taller guy so I can wear high heels.
Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men!
I have a room full of shoes: heels and sneakers and everything.
People talk about ‘date night,’ and it is true: Sometimes you have to apply yourself, or at least apply lipstick to yourself. You kind of have to dress up, just because. You know, wear heels to your own dinner table.
I fell out of the womb and landed in my mother’s high heels.
I’ve always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant, I could perform in heels.
As long as you win Monaco, that’s the one. In my ten years of Formula One, I’ve only won here once. This is my second time.Every year, it feels like this is your Achilles heel. You almost have it and then you don’t. It’s such a hard race to win.
I’m done growing. I only grow when I put my high heels on now.
Know what suits you. I would never wear brown, because it just doesn’t work with my pale skin and dark hair. Also I wouldn’t wear flats at night, because I love heels.
I ruptured my plantaris muscle. It runs through the calf and goes down the side of your achilles and stretches right to the heel.
Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.
To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must be given: They are stragglers and they are down at heel.
Like at home, I don’t wear heels. But everywhere else I go, I wear heels.
Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
I’ve got no anti-America or anti-Hollywood kick, it’s just that I never wanted to go and kick my heels around L.A. for six months hoping something would happen.
Sometimes, just to give the impression that you have the strength and the vitality demands a lot. You can’t always give that impression when you have heels and a wig on and it’s 40 degrees outside.
I’m working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, ‘Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.’
Singing other people’s material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig my heels in and try even harder to combine the two.
It has always been more difficult for a man to keep than to get; for, in the one case, fortune aids, which often assists injustice; but, in the other case, sense is required. Therefore, we often see a person deficient in cleverness rise to wealth; and then, from want of sense, roll head over heels to the bottom.
I think our dependence on foreign oil is a real problem, potential Achilles heel, and we have to do something about it.
Marissa laughed, utterly delighted with her mate. “Later. Food first.” Butch settled back immediately, like she’d called his lust to a heel and it behaved because it wanted to be a good boy. As she left, the cop’s eyes followed her with rank hunger and adoration. V shook his head. “You are a total sap.
Passion’s a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love’s a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute; if you can’t rein him, it’s best to have no truck with him.
What I wear is everything – from how I carry my hair to what I’m wearing on my feet. I have to feel comfortable on stage, so I like to wear things that have room. My mood changes a lot, so sometimes I wear 6-inch heels, and other times I’ll perform in bare feet.
In general, I’m rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it’s like being in a sweet shop: they’re pretty. But I’m not good in them. I don’t walk nicely in heels.
I’m Latina. I was born with high heels. We crossed border in high heels. We were running from immigration…I can do aerobics in heels.
See, all actors pretend. I enjoy that pretence. I don’t wear heels in real life, but if it is for a character, I love to get into the traits of the person I am playing.
I love the shape of ’50s fashion: the clothes are very flattering; they let you out in the right places. I love high heels, too, as I’m only five foot three, although I always tell people I’m five foot five.
People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don’t want to create painful shoes, but it is not my job to create something comfortable. I try to make high heels as comfortable as they can be, but my priority is design, beauty and sexiness. I’m not against them, but comfort is not my focus.
It’s hard to fight in high heels or even jeans that are too tight. You can’t kick in skinny, skinny jeans.
I don’t wear a lot of high heels.
I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who’s 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy.
I like things to feel a touch unfinished; sweatpants with heels, or tennis shoes with a trouser. Those things are important.
Nothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels… try it!
When you’re performing, you just have to keep pushing through. You’re human, and you’re going to make mistakes. I think even Beyonce has tripped on stage, and she’s Beyonce! We’re all human beings, and sometimes we trip in our high heels! I barely perform in high heels. I don’t know how those girls do it.
Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn’t even know his name today.
If a woman is bed-heady and it doesn’t look put on, it’s pretty sexy. But when a woman is wearing a really smart dress with great heels and her hair is pulled back, that’s terribly sexy too – like an Audrey Hepburn kind of thing.
So, there’s plenty of good heels in the business. I don’t see guys who can get fans to rally behind them like I do. It’s hard. It’s the hardest job in the business and I’m doing it every single night.
Me and heels are very good friends.
Achilles only had an Achilles heel, I have an entire Achilles body.
I went through this phase of Spandex, high heels, and fur coats when I was my late teens and early twenties; before then, I lived in overalls and baggy T-shirts.
Personally, I don’t really have a set style or look. It’s pretty much what I feel like wearing that day, from a floral-print dress and high heels to ripped jeans and army boots.
Why do people care what I’m wearing or what I’m eating, and why are people looking down on me because I’m not wearing high heels? That’s the downside to being in the public eye.
Why do we wear them? They’re so painful.
If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and then, a stance.
The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.
On my first album I was wearing a lot of guys pants, baggy clothes and stuff like that. I was 17 and I was a little tomboy. And you would never see me wearing a dress or heels on my first record.
Love is passion, obsession, someone you can’t live without. If you don’t start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who’ll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart.
For a long time, because I’m pretty tall, I was scared to wear heels, but now I wear them all the time. I feel like I’m still discovering my stage style, but I love – well, I’m not a huge color person onstage, but I am in real life. I like short stuff, big heels, fringe, lots of fringe, sometimes sparkle, yeah!
When I’m sitting in bed watching ‘Chopped’ – that Brie I know. But I don’t know the Brie in sky-high heels on a carpet with a bunch of people screaming at me. I wonder what she’s like.
I’ve sort of always pulled for the heels, like the bad guys. So I think if I were a pro wrestler, first I’d need to bulk up, and second I’ll need to get sort of a bad-boy persona.
Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets, perhaps, whose singing we hear with pleasure, though some of us smash them with our heels when they venture into sight.
When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels.
My dad always took to his heels when a nappy change was necessary. I am so much looking forward to our child. It is such a wonderfully exciting time right now.
When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably ’cause I missed something about Texas.
All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.
I don’t know much about Hitler. Except that last thing, about the Jews. There has never been a country that put its heel down on the Jews that ever lived afterwards.
You have to take into account the arc of your foot when you’re buying heels.
Once, I was going to a film event, and someone told me not to wear high heels to it. They said that it might intimidate the men. For some reason, I was ready to take their cue, but about an hour later, something in my head started ringing, and I thought, ‘That is the worst advice anybody’s ever given me.’
I think my favourite memory from filming ‘Jurassic World’ would just be a compilation of me running through the jungle in heels, and just how absurd that really was. That that actually happened.
I do feel like there are the pop stars of the world and then I’m like their dirty little sister, running around with sh*t on my face in combat boots because I can’t walk in heels.
It is all very well for so-called sensible people to recommend flat heels and short skirts, but most of us prefer not to be sensible.
At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.
Businesses always have competitors nipping at their heels. Historically, cities have not viewed themselves as subject to that same type of competition. But that’s wrong.
Sometimes, when I’m alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance.
I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother’s or your grandmother’s dresses and high heels.
Some tell me I’ll break my ankle on my high heels – but I live in them. I’m known for doing speed dashes and leaps and bounds in heels. No problem.
Summer treads on heels of spring.
Alexander McQueen will always be top of my list and I am really into Gianmarco Lorenzi heels.
I always wear my signature 5- to 5-and-a-half-inch heels.
I can’t express how much admiration I have for women in general, who walk around in high heels, but, drag queens, oh my god.
High heels can literally raise your
status because you’re taller when you wear them.
status because you’re taller when you wear them.
I’m like a dude. Jordans are my favorite. I wear them all the time for shows. I can get girly-girly when I want to, but I can’t perform in heels. I would bust my face open on stage, and we don’t want that.
I just wanted to experience what it felt like on the other side of the fence. As we all know, the heels have the most fun out there in the ring.
I’m either in heels or barefoot.
Every time I put on high heels, I think: ‘Well, I’ll fall over today.’ Almost always, I don’t. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.
One time, I was posing on a car for a calendar shoot. I was doused with oil and literally slid off the car, bikini, heels and all!
I want to be like one of those little fainting goats that get scared and then just fall over. I want to go and go and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.
It’s so strange how people can be judgmental when they see a pregnant woman dressed in high heels and tight dresses. Being pregnant shouldn’t make you feel less of a woman, but more of a woman!
A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles’ heel is time. Its children, what of them?
Meeting Justin Bieber was interesting. We were backstage at The Voice, and he was there premiering his “Boyfriend” music video. I was in six-inch heels, so I was towering over him like a giant.
I used to go to school in heels every day. I thought I was a little grown woman.
Now I can wear high heels again.
Keep your heels, head & standards high!
When you fall head over heels for someone, you’re not falling in love with who they are as a person; you’re falling in love with your idea of love.
I’m not the type who parties regularly. I’m happy sitting at home, cooling my heels.
Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
I will bring in style, clothes, high heels, laugh and positivity.
Time heals all and heels hurt to walk in, but they go with the clutch that you carry your lip gloss in.
The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.
The true man breathes with his heels.
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.
Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally.
I’d go to lesbian parties. I felt like I wasn’t hard enough to be butch, but I wasn’t wearing heels and a skirt – I wasn’t femme – so I felt like I was sort of invisible.
Walking in high heels should be made an Olympic sport.
I have a lot of looks but right now I’m really into grunge. Messy hair, black heels. I get Michelle Pfeiffer with it.
It’s so irritating, because male rappers don’t have to have a look. A guy can look like a bum on the street, but as a male, people will accept him because he’s a rapper. But females, they expect you to have a big booty. They expect you to walk in six-inch heels.
