Pairs Quotations | Page 3

A great pair of shoes can make a $20 outfit look like couture, and a poorly constructed pair of shoes can make couture look like a cheap knockoff.

I've had a great time in South America and South Africa. Indeed it now seems that on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful year of my life.

How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?

It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter.

I like colourful knickers, but most importantly a great pair of knickers should be taken off with more joy than they were put on.

I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.

You've got all these brilliant, talented people, and the first thing they say afterward is, 'God, am I glad that's over!' All of a sudden, 40,000 pairs of eyes turn and they're looking at you. All of them say it's the most incredible rush they've ever had professionally.

Listen," I began, "this is an established,traditional form that-" "Traditional nothing.Where are your clothes?" "Clothes?" I said weakly. "I don't normally bother with them in this guise." "Well,you could put on a pair of shorts,at least.Your not decent." "I'm not sure they'd go with the wings..." The demon frowend,and blinked."Hold on,enough of this." "Lenderhosen would. They'd compliment the leather.

All of the celebrities in the competition not only have the ability to skate, but the desire to excel and become great. What's really interesting is that even at the training level, a competition between the pairs is already developing.

I have a really great show jacket from Lavalliere thats really well made, and I have a great pair of Gucci jodhpurs, which is hilarious.

The most I've spent on shoes were a pair from Kurt Geiger for £250.

We are in a fool's climate, accidentally kept cool by smoke, and before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.

By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.

A pair of black Louboutin's... and that's it!

To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford them.

When love congeals It soon reveals The faint aroma of performing seals, The double-crossing of a pair of heels. I wish I were in love again!

You two are a strange pair. You are a pair, aren't you?" "We're in training.

Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.

I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, which are so flattering when they catch the light. I love the designers Alexis Bittar and Kenneth Jay Lane, and I always go to jewellers Butler & Wilson.

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works.

Besides I'm a sucker for a pair of pretty eyes.

I would rather die than have my fans see me without a pair of heels on. And that's show business.

I like that sense of family in my workplace, having the same pair of eyes to look into.

I'm much more than a pair of breasts...I represent success, hard work, and fun.

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.

Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.

I always enjoy being the obvious homunculus of the pair.

I don't trust you with my shoe; I wouldn't trust you with an old pair of socks.

People tend to pair off that way, Cath thought, in matched sets.

I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.

How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort. IN PAIRS.

She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a whole lot of sense, because probably AFTER you had walked a mile in their shoes, you would understand that they were chasing you and accusing you of the theft of a pair of shoes--although, of course, you could probably outrun them, owing to their lack of footwear.

I can't count how many pairs of Converse shoes I own.

I grabbed a pair of glowing red legs.

Sometimes miracles come in pairs.

This is the kind of fashion I grew up on - a good pair of trainers, great denim - and I will always love high-end streetwear.

... and later we'll have action from the men's cockles pairs.

My single pair of eyes Contain the universe they see; Their mirrored multiplicity Is packed into a hollow body Where I reflect the many, in my one.

And I'm a pair of pants with a hole scorched through the ass?

All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.

If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breathe out the tender tale

I've heard that we come on the earth in pairs, get separated only to meet once again through marriage. So whoever is there on this earth for me, will eventually get paired with me. Till then, I'll enjoy my singlehood.

It's hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.

I don't sound disloyal, but I've never had a pair of Marvel pyjamas or underwear. I do have a lot of Marvel figurines at home in a cabinet. Every time they make a new Marvel figure I put it in my cabinet.

I've got a thing for footwear; I have about 200 pairs of shoes from all over the world.

I would just turn into a giant pair of lips. "Oh God! There he is! It's Lip-Man!"

Sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins. Sunglasses and a great pair of heels can turn most outfits around.

Underwear is everything because we all know that if we have on the wrong pair of underwear it ruins your day.

Rose and Dimitri moved almost as one entity, like a matched pair of wolfes or lions, both wary and deadly as they studied their surroundings, taking no detail or person for granted.

You managed to get him a duster, but you couldn't find me a pair of jeans?

The one I can't imagine anyone taking seriously, but was one of my favorites, was the mesh football jersey top, paired with a really short pair of athletic shorts.

To make a poem, take one newspaper, one pair of scissors, snip the words one by one and put them in a bag. Shake gently, draw them out at random, and copy them conscientiously... DADA est mort. DADA est idiot. Vive DADA!

Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that's it.

politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.

One of my daughters was a bit flat-chested, so she had implants and she's got a lovely pair now. I see nothing wrong with it.

I am honest enough with myself to admit it. I rarely offer strong opinions, I have a backbone like a pair of bifold doors, and I am terrified of not being approved of.

And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.

Some socks are loners They can't live in pairs.

And so they are ever returning to us, the dead. At times they come back from the ice more than seven decades later and are found at the edge of the moraine, a few polished bones and a pair of hobnailed boots.

Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

A pair of skis are the ultimate transformation to freedom

Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.

There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes.

Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.

One more sign of how perfect Damen is—he keeps a pair of trunks in his car.

To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of Choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed.

A pair of star-crossed lovers.

No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage...

I prefer to forget both pairs of glasses and pass my declining years saluting strange women and grandfather clocks.

One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up.

A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet.

O when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?

Live while ye may, Yet happy pair.

Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.

I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare.

The case wouldn't be overweight if you didn't have so many shoes. How many do you really need? This pair, for example, I swear you never even wore them.

The person who cannot wonder is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

Steak and sex, my favorite pair. I get them both very rare.

The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.

Why don't you pair'em up in threes?