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wackybuddiemewbs · 2 years ago

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Random thoughts on 6x04

So yeah, I watched the episode by now. A lot of interesting stuff going on there. Though it will take some time for my heart to mend about the fact that I did not get rewarded with even a wee bit of whump from the car chase for Buck! I wanted it! So bad! :D

Anyway, here's my not at all coherent ramblings for now:

Buck and Hen parallels my beloved

I am really intrigued by the writers paralleling Buck and Hen in their arcs of self-realization (and realizing what they want out of their lives). Buck wanting to say “yes” to possibility, whereas Hen struggles to say “no” to responsibility. And I have a feeling that's gonna come bite them both on the ass.

With Karen and Denny potentially in danger in the near future... I guess Hen's path will be the realization that she may want to be a doctor, but that she wants and needs her family (and the firefighter job) more than she'd ever want the white coat.

And I think Buck's in for some (bad) surprises about his saying "yes" as well. I'm not entirely sure about what route they are going to take with the sperm donation (more of that later), but this is not finished yet.

I loved the two hanging out. We haven't seen that in such a long time. And they are the most adorable drunk people. I won't ever be over how cute Buck is when he leans his head down to pour the drinks. 💖

What we got to see were two people following their instincts, and believing it to be the right choice. Hen decides that her instinct was right to pursue a career as a doctor. And she's going for it with the second chance at the exam. Buck decides that his instinct is right to want to help people who know what they want, even though he may not at this point.

What struck me was the lack of conversation with their significant others regarding those life-changing decisions they made that very episode. For Hen, that's Karen, and I think that's a fight about to come. And for Buck... yup, Eddie. Even if I don't put the Buddie goggles on, Buck normally talks to Eddie about those things. So I found it almost glaring that he came to the conclusion without consulting him first. While I think it will be different from Karen's reaction regarding Hen's decision, I can see that the parallels will continue to be strong. And telling. Coz yeah, I got the Buddie goggles and I ain't taking them off for long.

Fatherhood in the Diaz household

I love where they are going with this. And KUDOS for following up on Ramon trying to be more there in Eddie's life, standing by his promise to build a better relationship with his son. I loved to see Eddie genuinely seeking advice and Roman opening up more, being a father for him, and taking the time. Which in turn enabled Eddie to be a better father to Christopher.

It's great to see how breaking vicious cycles in a family structure may not fix the past, but still enables everyone to move forward. It's great to see Ramon owning up to the mistakes he made in his parenting, and showing genuine regret of having forced Eddie to grow up faster than he maybe had to. I think it will help Eddie a great deal, not just as a father himself, but as a son, as a person.

Also, I loved Ramon pointing out the cold shoulder thing to Eddie, and how he perfected it. Because it hints at Ramon, despite being away that much and having made mistakes in being Eddie's father, still always looked at Eddie and seemed to know (or at least seems to now understand) where that was coming from.

I really hope we see more of that. It seems to have such a healing power on Eddie (and boi deserves it). But yeah, that means Eddie will have to figure out what to do with his free time now. Which could prove… very interesting.

Having to let go and embracing change

The episode had a large focus on people having to let go. Athena having to let go of her son and her parents to return to an “empty nest”. Bobby also realizing how empty the house feels without the usual buzz of life in it.

Eddie has to learn to let go of Christopher to enable him to become his own person and let him trust his instincts, instead of only relying on his own parental instincts.

Hen struggles with deciding on what to let go, juggling firefighting, her family, and becoming a doctor.

Buck potentially having to let go of a life he'd help create, Buck embracing changes to happen in an effort to follow the book and say “yes” to opportunity.

It's interesting to me how each of them took a different approach to deal with that:

Bobby lets go of the feeling of an empty house, embracing his wife again. And by adopting a dog. Which is to say that he embraces something new to take responsibility for, and step into a different role than that of a father figure. So I'm interested to see how that's going to go in the future.

Eddie learns that he has to let Christopher go, but he sets boundaries for it and has an honest conversation with Christopher about it. What I think remains the open question is how he will decide to fill that “void”. Because Eddie has largely defined himself as a firefighter and single dad exclusively. So he will have to take a hard look at himself and realize what his hobbies are, what his wishes are, who he is without those two defining factors of his personality. What he is outside the functions he serves (and yeah, Buck parallels much).

Hen decides not to let go of either and still believes herself capable of occupying all three spaces. And I do believe that is very likely to come crashing down. Because no, it's not just the year of hell. Working as a doctor will put her through that all the time. And while she feels like her life is incomplete without this, I also believe that the upshot of her season's arc is going to be about setting priorities and finding better ways. Which is to say: I think she will decide for her family (including the firefam). And I think she'll have to let go of becoming a doctor. But I also believe that she will discover something else (and potentially better) in the future. What that is… I'm not sure about. But I can see it going this direction. That Hen will find that she needs to make a difference not in a hospital but out in the field, and then go home to be with her family – and be content with that.

Buck's arc remains somewhat mysterious to me at this point. I'm very indecisive on what the outcome is going to be of the sperm donor arc. It might be that we will come to the conclusion that he will go through with it, and that it will be good. But I also believe it's not the end just yet. Because that whole scene felt way too much like Buck telling Taylor to move in with him. Because Buck wants to do what's right (he wants to live by what Connor chose him for, being a good person, hmmmmm). What stands is that I think this is not over and dealt with. Buck maybe having considered the repercussions of being a donor vs. being a dad doesn't necessitate that it will turn out to be the final decision. But again, more of that later. What I will say in that regard: Buck wants to embrace change, but he has no clue what to change (about himself). He keeps misunderstanding the assignment, I believe.

Buck and fear

Buck's brought it up repeatedly that he is afraid this season, when it comes to his personal life. He talked to Hen about the AA book and how he believes acting accordingly can have you not be afraid anymore. He talks about being afraid of picking the wrong couch (metaphor for making what he believes is the next mistake after his relationship with Taylor went down the drain). Now he talked to Maddie about what he read in the book, about how we do the same things over and over, the things that don't scare us. Buck's takeaway from that is his “say yes” mentality. To overcome that fear and discover something greater (the path to happiness).

What keeps striking me is how often he openly admits to being afraid. Maybe it's a warning sign (because yeah, this fangirl still believes in Buck Breakdown Era Incoming). Buck is saying this whole time “I am scared”, and he tries to find ways on his own to not be afraid anymore.

We see him modeling his behavior after other people a lot, and now he's also going for those self-help books. But we also see him a lot in his own head this season. Most prominently this episode, he completely zoned out. He sat as far away from Chim, Hen, and Eddie, as he possibly could. Sure, it was also to highlight just how caught off-guard he was by Connor's request. But again, I can't shake the feeling that Buck is getting way too much into his head in an effort to find his answers, which results in him closing off to his friends. Despite Chim insisting that Buck always overshares.

Which is to say: It's good that he does some introspection. Because yes, he has to take a good look at what he wants out of his life that is outside doing his job. Buck gained a clearer view last season of what he doesn't want out of a relationship. Now he wants to figure out how to be happy (because, deep down, he feels like his life is not complete as it is – as he said to Maddie in season 4, he doesn't just want to be good, he wants to be better). Again, which is good.

BUT. Last time we saw him zoning out like that was when Chim went after Maddie. When he thought the whole team hated his guts for Chim leaving. And last time, he got immediately snapped out of it by his family (particularly Eddie looking like the proudest husband to tell him he was not going anywhere).

But now it feels like Buck is swallowing down whatever fears it might give him, considering the consequences of a sperm donation to Connor and his wife. Because he wants to be a good person. He genuinely wants to help those people. And while Hen cautioned him towards the consequences it might have on him, it seems to override any sense of self-preservation for Buck as things currently stand. He doesn't want to be afraid of this. Because it could turn out to be a great thing. You know, embrace change.

But. It might just as well not. For him, at least. And that could be very devastating for him.

Buck saying yes and winning – for now

As I said, I still feel a bit robbed that we didn't even get a scrape on that pretty face during the car chase. Be it as it may, I'm actually still very intrigued by that. Because Buck has been very daring in his pursuit to save Chimney. The car stopped mere inches from him. And it may not have. Buck said “yes” to the possibility of saving Chimney by intercepting the car. And he “won”. He got the car to stop. And you can see how happy he is.

But. It was dumb luck. The guy may have run him over. That could have happened all the same. Buck said “yes” to helping Chimney, to trying to save a life, while putting his on the line. Arguably unnecessarily. Because there may have been other ways by the police to stop the car. It didn't take Buck on the bike. It wasn't a last ditch effort.

Which has me think that this is still gonna bite him on the ass. Buck was reckless, and he was “rewarded” with having saved Chimney. He was proven right to be unafraid (for his own person) and just chance it. Which can save a best friend's life, yes, but it could have been a massive disaster, should the driver have hit him.

So, I don't think that Buck's gonna be hit by another car, but I do believe that we might see this behavior coming back in full swing. Because Buck feels validated right now, to take those chances. And that may not amount to anything good. Except for me, because that means I shall be fed the whump. :3

The little swimmers that keep on swimming

Now, let's talk about sperm (and let's not think about all those cumslut!Buck jokes that are in TIMEOUT right now).

First things first: Until proven otherwise, Connor and Buck definitely fucked.

Second of all… oh my. As I said, I'm seriously unsure on the road they wanna head with this narrative, but… It has me concerned. A lot.

While Connor later on apologized and owned up to it being… not the best way of going about such a request… it was jarring that this was how Buck's first jump on opportunity turned out. Because Connor turned to him not to reconnect with Buck because he wanted to spend time with Buck. He reconnected with him with a very specific purpose in mind.

Again, I am not saying that is something unkind of him and he later on clarifies that, for him, Buck as a donor is the thing because he believes in the good of Buck's character (and not just his physicality as a potential donor).

But. It's jarring that Buck's first encounter with an old friend comes back to him serving a function that is outside himself. Connor didn't want to meet with Buck because of Buck. But because of his and his wife's wish to have a child. They wanted to meet Buck for themselves.

And I guess you can see where I'm going with this. For Buck, that might have felt a lot like it was with his parents. Because they wanted him for another purpose than himself, too. Buck, yet again (although vastly different in its premise, and I'm not putting Connor and his wife on the same level as the Buckley parents because they leave Buck the choice), is wanted not for himself but for the purpose he can serve to others. To save lives. To help people have the life they wanted.

While Connor makes it clear that they went to him because he believes in Buck's innate goodness and is genuine in his appreciation for him as a person, I think this might inspire some potentially harmful behaviors in Buck. And no, the donation doesn't necessarily have to be one of them. It can turn out to be the right thing. But right now, I believe Buck is doing it for the wrong reasons.

Because he does it to help them live their dream, because they have it all figured out and “earned it”, whereas Buck feels like fatherhood is something unattainable for him because he hasn't figured himself out yet.

Which is not to say that I think the right conclusion for him would be to go find himself someone to have a baby with. But what I see is Buck seeking validation and wanting to partake in something "greater" (Connor's future with all the things Buck still idealizes as the things you'd want out of life). Even if that means he won't actually take part in it. And Buck goes for it. Because Connor told him that he is a good person. And Buck feels honored and validated by that. A good person would do that for two people in need, right? Right? This could turn out to be great. Right?

Right.

Again, it might. But I feel like Buck is just trying to convince himself that helping them is what he wants. Or rather, no, he is sure that he wants to help them (because that is who Buck inherently is), but I think he remains blindsided to the fact that there might be other ways to help them than with a donation. And that might be just the twist.

Now. Where will this conclude? I am honestly not sure. Right now, I can see 3 options for how this may play out.

Option 1: Buck sticks by the decision, and it turns out to be the right choice once he does it for the right reasons

Again, I can see this happening. The show makes a huge deal out of unconventional family constellations. And that might be just one of those things they want to address.

The conclusion could well be that Buck comes to the realization that he is indeed not the father to that child and is fine with it, having realized that he has a family (not by blood aside from Maddie) that makes him fully content.

In this case, I still think we will see Buck struggle more with the decision. And I firmly believe he still needs to talk to Eddie about that. Because there is still that thing about the will that I believe is closely interlinked with this arc and its conclusion.

Further down the road, we might see that bittersweet moment of Buck hanging a picture of the family on his fridge and being content with what he got. Bonus points if that involves him looking at Eddie and Christopher on his new couch. ;)

Option 2: Buck wants to want this, only for circumstance preventing him from it, fueling his feelings of inadequacy

Maybe Buck's family medical history will come back here, with Daniel having had juvenile leukemia. And that this might disqualify him from donation.

If that's the road they are going to take, that would definitely be material for Buck Breakdown Era. It brings us right back to “defective parts”, “spare parts”, and “design flaws”. Buck would feel immensely guilty for having gotten Connor's and his wife's hopes up, only to let them down. For his body to let them down. For his body being defective, not good enough.

There is a whole lot to be said about Buck and bodily autonomy, and I guess that would be a long-ass post of its own, but suffice to say: That would fit right into that ongoing issue of Buck's complicated relationship with his own body and taking ownership of it.

Buck feeling like he finally found a good answer as to what he wants to do with his life (helping others), only for his body to prevent him from living up to what Connor said, namely that he is a good person... oh, the angst, the drama.

In that scenario, I find it very likely we would see him more self-deprecating, putting himself in danger (like he did as a kid, getting hurt, just that this time, he is punishing the body that is betraying what he believes his true purpose to be).

In that case, that would be ample opportunity to bring in the will as well. And maybe I'd get fed at long last in this scenario, with Eddie fussing over Buck having pulled something reckless. Only to remind him that he already has a family, that he has Christopher and him, so he doesn't get to do that anymore. *angrily worried husband mode activated*

Followed by: Buddie Nation for the Win. :) Because that scenario would have Buck realize that he has a family, and that he doesn't need to prove his worth to them in any capacity. That for people like Eddie, he is enough as is, body and soul.

Option 3: Buck changes his mind and decides against the donation, though he will find some other means to help Connor and his wife

That would be more on the narrative level of “Buck finally understands the assignment in that saying 'no' too often never was the issue”. Which is to say: I genuinely believe Buck's problem has never been saying “no” to opportunities. He said “yes” to a relationship that didn't work for him, too. I think Buck says “no” not nearly as often as he maybe even should. And that might just be the upshot.

Buck said “no” to rekindling a loveless relationship last season (parallel to Eddie much). That gave him a clearer understanding of what he wants out of a relationship. Right now, he just strikes me as unsure of what to do with that knowledge and how to fit that into the larger question of what he wants out of his life entirely, and not just a relationship. So a next organic step for his character progression would be to say “no” to a kind of “parenthood” that isn't suited for him, even though it suits his character (i.e. he is helpful and kind and a genuinely good person).

The upshot could be that Buck has to say “no” to something that is inherently good. With Taylor, he took his time to say “no” to something that had them both stuck and wasn't good for either one. This time, it'd be about him saying “no” to something that would maybe even be morally good, but would go against what he wants.

So that again would mean he'd gain a clearer understanding of what he wants out of his life, and that this runs contrary to being a sperm donor, no matter how much he wants to help them have that baby.

Yet again, none of those scenarios can do without a discussion with Eddie and about the will, in my humble opinion. Because Buck is now confronted with the question of what he wants his “parenthood” to look like in the future. And maybe the realization is not just going to be that he doesn't want to be a sperm donor for a child whose life he won't be a part of. But that he doesn't *just* want to be Christopher's legal guardian either, in the event that something should happen to Eddie. That Buck wants more. And that he is good enough for asking for that more.

Maybe, the grand realization Buck is about to have is that he wants more of what he already got. That he doesn't need a biological child for that, but that he needs to be part of Eddie's and Christopher's life to truly find happiness. But that it isn't just as “Uncle Buck”, not just “not a guest”, but as that significant person to both Eddie and Christopher.

In conclusion

So yeah, I am absolutely unsure where they are headed with all this. But all of it could be a wonderful opening for Buck and Eddie realizing what they want out of their lives – and that having a lot to do with who they want to spend most time with in their lives.

Eddie has to realize who he is outside being a father and a firefighter. He has to figure out and reconnect with himself, very likely, which feeds into the primary question of “what do you want for yourself?”. And that is the same question that's on the plate for Buck.

And I remain convinced that the answer for them is basically the same thing: They want each other. They want more of each other in their shared lives. Buck wants to be more than a sperm donor/legal guardian and finds it with Eddie and Chris. And Eddie wants something for himself (a relationship that is fulfilling and not just surface level), and you guess who's that for him, right?

Anyway. I guess there's more to say, more to think. But those are my ramblings for the moment.

*rides away*

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reidgraygubler · 4 years ago

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take care (lesley smith-juniment/gender-neutral!reader)

Title: take care Requested: no Couple: lesley smith-juniment/gender-neutral!reader Category: fluff Content Warning: drinking, drunken shenanigans, there was only one bed trope, reader throws up, talks about sex (but it doesn’t happen, just talked about) Word Count: 2641 Summary: Lesley takes care of reader after they had too much to drink A/N: this was written for @imagining-in-the-margins only one bed challenge! This is the first time i’ve written lesley, so bear with me! I appreciate you <3 i really hope you guys enjoy this :D check out my masterlist!

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I should have realized how much I had to drink the night before. My head was absolutely pounding and my whole body was killing me. I hardly remember what I did last night. It was just one shot of tequila too many, and then everything was gone.

Damn tequila… And damn my friends for buying shots. At least I wasn’t too much of an embarrassment. Or at least I thought. Drunk me is very, very different than sober me. Drunk me was the life of the party, sober me was not.

I wish I could remember what I did the night before. Lesley was there, and Summer was there. And… Summer’s finance joined, too... I do, however, remember Lesy trying to stop me from drinking but… He’s not my babysitter.

Or… Was he?

My body instantly popped up as I realized I wasn’t in my own room. It was a hotel room, but it wasn’t mine. It was… It was Lesley’s. His boots and clothing neatly set to the side easily told me it was his room.

But it was also him asleep beside me that told me it was his room. Lesley was on the total edge of the bed, on top of the sheets, and his back facing me. I knew he’s never slept in the same bed as another person before, but the least he could have done was act like it was fine.

I tumbled out of the bed, nearly falling to the floor. It was quite the surprise when I realized I was wearing just a shirt (which belonged to Lesley) and underwear. No wonder he was on top of the sheets, and on the extreme edge of the bed.

“Fuck,” I whispered as I searched the room for my clothes. My shirt and pants were thrown around, and my shoes were hiding under the bed. I hope nothing bad happened last night. And by bad I mean I didn’t actually say or do anything… inappropriate.

“Are you okay?” Lesley asked after a moment of silence. I looked over at him with a raised eyebrow. “I just… I heard you fall off the bed, and I’m sure you have a killer hangover. You had like… A whole bottle of tequila with Summer,” he nervously chuckled as he looked at me. I looked back at him with wide eyes.

“Yeah, yeah I’m okay. Headache would be correct,” I nervously laughed as I lifted a hand to hold my head. “I was just about to go find… Bacon! Bacon and grease and water and… Yeah, it helps hangovers.” I looked down at the ground.

“It’s probably too late for shitty continental breakfast, right?” Lesley asked as he slipped out of the bed. I stared at him for a moment.

“Probably… I was just going to go to the Denny’s down the street,” I muttered as I gestured in the vague direction of the breakfast restaurant.

“Can I… go with?”

“Yeah, of course you can, Les,” I answered with a smile. Although my smile felt disingenuous. Maybe that’s what I meant. I still don’t know who I was last night, I could have done anything…

Our journey to the Denny’s was pretty silent. I must have been real bad last night if Lesley didn't say anything. It wasn’t till I had my coffee and breakfast sitting in front of me that I said anything.

“Can… Can you tell me what exactly happened last night?” I asked, as I dumped the two sugar packets into my coffee. Lesley looked at me with a raised brow. “Like you said… Whole bottle of tequila,” I chuckled.

And then he told me… {***}{***}{***}

Drinks… That was exactly what I needed. Work sucked, home sucked, life sucked, everything sucked. So I needed drinks, because drinking fixes everything. I shouldn’t say that. That’s not true, but drinking can fix a lot.

Summer and her fiance had invited Lesley out for drinks. Which in turn, Lesley asked me to join them. I couldn’t say no to Lesley. To be honest, I wouldn’t have gone had Lesley not invited me. Sure, Summer is one of my greatest friends. But I hated her fiance, Bradley… I wasn’t the only one who hated him though. Lesley hated him just as much, if not more. We had our different reasonings though. I hated him simply because he was a dick, and Summer was amazing.

It was hard to say just how many actual drinks I had, and I lost count of how many shots were consumed. But the majority were done between me and Summer. We were both so far gone, but we were having fun. So who cares?

To answer my own question, Lesley. Lesley cared because he’s my best friend. Of course he’d care. He cared about our safety more than Bradley did. Bradley was too busy drinking himself to notice Summer or me.

I think I was just drinking so excessively to get his attention, too. He was so busy pining over Summer that he didn’t realize I was right in front of him. My plan did work, though. I had most certainly gotten his attention as I stumbled up to the bar and ordered another round of shots for Summer and I. Summer was somewhere, dancing with a bunch of strangers while I did this. She was the one who said get more shots.

“Hey Pal… Are-Are you okay?” Lesley asked as he appeared by my side. I lowered my margarita glass to the counter as I looked at him. I hated the way that he looked motion blurred as I stared at him. The world around him was moving a touch too fast for me to pay attention to him.

“I-I’m fucking great, Les! Fucking awesome!” My words came out like a slurred mess. There was no apparent lie in my words. I felt awesome. It was the tequila talking. “I think… I think it’s time for another shot! You want one?!” I shouted as I turned back to face the bar.

“No, no! I don’t want one. I think we should go. Get you back to the hotel so you can-”

“You want to leave!? Lesley! Tonight’s the night, Dude! We can’t leave! What if we died tomorrow?!” I shouted as I turned back to him. My hands found their way to his shoulders and I looked at him. “We can’t leave now!”

“I think we should,” Lesley retorted as he grabbed my arms. I stared at him before looking over at my drink. I grabbed it and drank the rest of it in one go.

“Okay now we can go.” I looked back at him. Lesley stared at me with a worried crease between his brows, causing me to smirk. I was too far gone, and he knew that. I was about to make his life a hell, and I couldn’t help it. That’s how it was when I was drunk, though. He played the concerned friend (but he’s always concerned), and I was the drunken toddler.

“Alright, c’mon,” he mumbled as he wrapped his arm around my waist. I stumbled away from the bar counter. I was thankful that Lesley kept his arm around me because I was sure to fall without him. He was always there to pick me up whenever I fell.

Maybe that’s why I liked Lesley so much. And not just as a friend. He cared about me in ways other people haven’t ever cared for me. Sure, Summer cared about me… But she’s not the one making sure I get back to the hotel safely.

“We’re not gonna say bye to Summer and Bradley?” I asked as Lesley brought us towards the exit of the bar. I looked over my shoulder to see Summer still dancing away with the strangers while Bradley flirted with other women at the bar.

“I told Bradley we were leaving,” Lesley muttered once we were finally outside. I took a deep breath of the fresh and cool air. It was so vastly different from the muggy air inside the bar.

“But I wanna say bye to Summer!” I exclaimed as Lesley took the lead towards the hotel. It was already too late because I had said that when we were blocks away from the bar.

“You can tell her where we went in the morning when you see her,” Lesley looked down at me. I sighed and rolled my eyes. Again, Lesley cared about me and I was grateful for that. I probably wouldn’t have ended up at the hotel if he didn’t take me now.

As I stumbled down the sidewalk, with Lesley’s arm around me, I rambled about everything, while at the same time nothing. Random things that didn’t matter, or silly things that crossed my mind. I didn’t even notice when Lesley just replied with the same three responses: ‘mhmm’, ‘oh really?’, ‘that’s funny’. I’m sure he had given up on holding a conversation with me. I’d do the same thing.

Somewhere between halfway and almost at the hotel, I forgot where we were going. But I was too afraid to ask him till we were inside the hotel lobby, waiting for the elevator.

“Where are we?” I murmured as I hung off Lesley’s shoulder. He looked down at me before looking back at the elevator doors.

“The hotel…”

“Are we going to your room?” I giggled as I threw my arms around his neck.

“I-Uh…”

“PUH-lease?” I begged as he took a step forward. A squeal came from me as he began dragging me towards the elevator.

“Okay! Okay! We can go to my room. I can sleep on the floor, or the armchair.” “Yay!” I jumped off his body and clapped my hands together. Lesley laughed nervously as he helped me into the elevator. “But… But why do you have to sleep on the floor or the armchair?”

“B-Because!” He shouted as he pressed the button to his floor. I squinted as I looked at him. “I shouldn’t have to have a reason.”

“Wait… Wait… Lesley, have you… Have you ever shared a bed with someone?” I looked up at him before batting my eyelashes. Lesley’s body stiffened as he looked at the scratchy silver elevator doors. I smiled as I threw my arms around his middle. “Am I taking your bed sharing ver-ginny-titty?”

“No, you’re not. I’ve shared beds with my moms.”

“That doesn’t count, Lessy. You know that,” I looked up at him with a smile. “I thought you’ve had sex before!?” I shouted as the elevator doors slid open. Two older women were standing on the other side. They heard me yell something about sex.

“Stop… Talking,” Lesley said in a harsh whisper as he looked at me.

“But! How have you never shared a bed with someone if you’ve had sex before!?” I continued to shout as Lesley pulled me off the elevator.

“Have a nice night,” he said as he looked at the older ladies. I looked at them and waved as he dragged me down the hall. “I have had sex. But…” Lesley stopped talking as he began looking for the room key. I stared at him, waiting for the rest of his answer. “I haven’t slept in the same bed as someone,” he finally finished once the key card was in his hand.

“H-How do you-”

“It just happened.”

Lesley looked at me as he unlocked the door. I smiled as he pulled me into the room. If he wasn’t holding onto me, I would have stumbled into the room and fell right to the floor. But since he was holding me, he caught me and held me upright. I looked over at him with a smile.

“So I am taking your bed sharing ver-ginny-titty,” I cackled before stumbling away from him. Lesley watched me as I approached this single queen bed. The bedding was still perfectly made, no sign of human life was seen in this room. Give or take the small suitcase sitting by the desk and a few toiletries in the bathroom.

That was until I was sitting on the bed… throwing up on the floor and my feet. Once the contents of my stomach made its home on the floor, I fell back and groaned.

“I’m so sorry, Lesley. I frew up.” I threw a hand over my face once I realized what had just happened. I could feel Lesley’s anger from my spot on the bed.

“It’s okay. I’m gonna… I’ll clean it up.” His voice was soft as he spoke. I knew he was mad, but to be fair, if someone had thrown up in my hotel room I’d be pissed, too.

I stayed quiet as Lesley worked on cleaning up the mess. Part of me wished I could do something to help, but I’d probably make it a bigger mess than it already is.

Once he was done cleaning, he sat on the opposite end of the bed and looked over at me.

“Can you go to sleep?”

“I don’t know. Can you go to sleep, Wes-wee?” I looked up at him as I readjusted so I was in the bed properly. He looked at me with an obvious tired expression in his eyes. I looked away from him before going under the covers. “Yeah, I can go to sleep,” I whispered as I shifted closer to him. “I love you, Lesley,” I sighed deeply into his chest before passing out.

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“Oh my god, I’m never drinking again.” I pressed both my hands to my face and let out a deep, resigned sigh. Lesley nervously laughed, causing me to look up at him.

“Do you really like me though?” he asked before taking another bite from his pancakes. I froze, my fork stabbed in a pancake. The syrup oozed out of the sides as if it was blood. It was unfortunate that I was probably not going to finish my food. I was really looking forward to pancakes, too.

“I like you a lot more than you think, Lesley,” I nervously laughed again before looking down at my coffee. It was mostly gone anyway, and I wished I had more. “And have since I started working for you.”

“Oh…” He looked back down at his coffee cup. I looked between him and my mostly empty cup, feeling my heart race. “Really?” he asked, searching for confirmation. I swallowed roughly before nodding lightly.

“Yeah, yeah.”

“Why didn’t you say anything before?”

“Uh, well, you’re sort of my boss,” I breathed out a laugh before shaking my head. “Little bad when it comes to serious things and don't want to lose this job or you… But I guess because I was fucking drunk last night and told you everything, I don’t care that much,” I rambled and rolled my eyes. I lifted my mug to my lips, only to be disappointed by cold coffee, which consisted mostly of grounds.

“You didn’t want to take a risk?” “Considering I was the first person you ever shared a bed with, Lesley, you shouldn’t preach to the choir.” I glanced at him. Lesley lifted his hands in defeat. I laughed lightly and shrugged. “Like I said, I didn’t want to lose you. So I didn’t want to take that risk.”

“You want to know what would have happened if you had taken that risk?”

“I think about all the outcomes… Mostly the bad because that always happens to me,” I laughed again.

“I would have told you I loved you too,” Lesley said as he reached across the table. I looked down at my hands just as his clasped over mine. I stared at them for a moment before looking up at him.

“Really?” I asked for confirmation.

“Yeah.”

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anotherhumanpet · 3 years ago

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What is shattered glass Denny Wenny like? I gotta know.

Simply put: angry and scared.

I've covered some head canons before in a post that I'll just link here for convenience and to save myself from double rambling. But a lot of his anger and violence stems out of his unspoken fears. Life has gone to shit and Dennis has absolutely no control of it anymore. But if he lets his fears be known then people will prey on him, the Autobots will prey on him, and there are fewer things worse than being picked on by the giant alien robot overlords. So, he hides his fear with anger and violence because if he's loud and brash enough then no one will notice how insecure and afraid he really is.

But, at the same time, when Autobots or people he's afraid of are around he gets quiet. Real quiet. So quiet you'd forget he's even there, like he's trying to make himself disappear in the silence itself. And it's not a good idea to stick around after these periods of quiet happen because he'll lash out a lot more because that's his way of dealing with his feelings in the wake of whatever's spooked him.

Uhhh, I'm not sure what else there is to say at this point so I'm just going to copy/paste some Discord ramblings now. Fair warning for points being repeated because I am the Worst at that.

Mud the Blood God the loose boundaries of the universe that Cricket and I built is that the Autobots are slowly but steadily conquering the Earth, partially because they're keeping Decepticon forces stretched thinly so they can't really concentrate on stopping them from taking over and partially because the US Government and Fowler proceeded to hand over the keys in order to appease the self proclaimed overlords in the hopes of staying on their good side MECH is working in leagues with the Cons in order to push back or at least contain Autobot conquest and the areas that the Autobots control within US territory (for the time being anyway) are basically work camps; citizens who live in those areas are used for a variety jobs but mainly weapons construction and energon mining I think pollution is at an all time high too air quality is pits and Dennis is just... quite literally an angry little cuss every other word out of his mouth is a cuss, he's very abrasive and aggressive, barks A LOT and might literally bite if he gets pissy enough but he's quick to cower too by anyone he knows can beat his ass and will shut up in their presence. like dead silence, head down, just trying to be as small as possible so like if you wanna shut him up, just wave down an Autobot and watch him be on His Best Behavior but watch out when the Autobot is gone cause he'll be extra surly cause their presence put him in a foul mood he hates his assigned job, he hates his life, he hates the Autobots, he hates just about everything and really only experiences "tolerance" he and Jack are like a duo of two bullies who can't quite agree on who is the lead but they're collaborating cause shit gets done better when there's two of you he can and will attempt to steal anything that isn't nailed down if it even seems remotely useful really though if you do manage to peel back the layer of angry he puts on you'll see that he's just sad and scared parents are still divorced which devastated him and he's lashing out at them both for it then his home was taken over and he got put to work by some giant alien douchewads who sometimes torment him and other humans cause it's fun shit's terrifying but if you act terrified then people either prey on you or make it worse, so you gotta be angry to get through it Canada (Cursed) aaa baby D : Mud the Blood God essentially, yes he got hella soft when he met regular Hot Spot who just offered him nothing but love and understanding at his own pace, then sent him home with a pistol and a hug and he kinda sorta grew on Gramps but then also tried to steal an Aegis shield the moment he thought he had an opening cause that's useful

#ooc post #Shattered Glass AU #convenientkeystorage #ask #it's like looking into the void except worse (Shattered Glass)

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reallifemessylife-blog · 6 years ago

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Lipstick on a Pig

So many days I feel like I'm just one step from being "lipstick on a pig" I'm a 7th grade special education teacher in Southern Utah.

I've been out sick 2 days with a gift from my girl. Before yesterday I was out Friday and Monday to be home with her while she recovered from a gift from daycare. I GET to go to the doctor and get a doctor's note to prove that I'm really sick! I'm so ornery about this that yesterday I about applied for the county deputy recorders position, administrative assistant to a local hunting magazine, to be a substitute teacher, an administrator with the organization that supplies schools with substitute teachers, for 3 freelance writing jobs, to work at a local crisis center and thought about working at the local town café, gas station and even calling up my boss from the old Denny's I worked at while I was in college. I may have had a mental breakdown day on top of being feverish, weak and having the the big D!

After some sleep and food I could tolerate I decided that I needed an outlet instead of just vomiting my craziness onto my friends, so here I am, blogging, aka, journaling in public!

I'm a mess! The kind of mess that can't keep house very well if at all, the kind of mess that has peed on dog pads on my living room floor I haven't picked up yet and the kind of mess that hasn't showered in almost a week. I stink and I need to shower so I can go into the doctor to get a doctor's note. Maybe if I just go in like I'm am he'll know for sure that I'm sick but he might call the local mental hospital. I better shower especially since I'd love to teach in my local school so I can be close to my daughter.

I snapped out of it this morning and realized that for my sake and my daughter, I need to stay working in special education at my school unless a better position comes open that will give me the opportunities teaching does. In theory I don't get summers off because our contracts are school year contracts but our salary gets spread out over the summer but I can use those summers to go hiking or spend too much money on things that may or may not get used.

I hope that my ramblings will help you realize how less of a mess you are, that you want to follow along for the entertainment, to see if I can ever shape up or if you just resonate with my feelings and messy life.

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lvoplds · 7 years ago

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aye ! i’m d or dennis either is hideous. she/her and i’m a big ol’ Gay. my timezone is gmt but that means nothing bc i sleep like garbage & that’s pre much all the ooc info i got bcos i’ll ramble which makes sense considering i’m leo’s mun --- speaking the fuck of ! hit the readmore for a lil breakdown i’m trying to keep brief ( i lied barbara sue me ) + the like button if u wanna plot <3

☆ · ˚ . ✦ . ˚ { COLE SPROUSE, TWENTY-FOUR, HE/THEY } spotted! LEOPOLD FISK making their way down the streets of the ues. i swear, every time i hear WELCOME TO JAPAN by THE STROKES, i think of them. the DEMIBOY is currently a COLLEGE STUDENT. though everyone knows them for being HEEDFUL & WELL-ROUNDED, page six says they could be BITTER & PERIPHRASTIC. according to gossip girl, LEO BLACKMAILED THE ADMISSIONS DIRECTOR TO GET INTO UNIVERSITY, but that could be a rumor. { d, 20, gmt, she/her }

so, leo feat. some basics --- just turned twenty-four. demiboy with preference to either he or they pronouns.

he’s ny born and raised. a fact that’ll be fun later: his mother’s from scotland & he has family he visits there.

he’s demisexual/demiromantic. romantic and sexual attraction come hand in hand with emotional depth and since he’s so skeptic/extra about the first and uncaring when it comes to the latter, it makes it difficult for leo to be available, but not at all impossible bcos hey ! he’s very open to connecting with people. he just needs to reset some of his priorities and ideals on people. it’s been two years, cunt.

a continuation to the point upstairs -- he’s pretty social though not as much as he used to be in highschool ?? he says it’s bc of college which is partially true but u never know.... now it’s pretty much him being socially operating: extensive phonecalls, he likes talking. keep him updated. spill teas and ur feelings, hon. the wingman of his people; think caleb gallo from the gay and wondrous life of caleb gallo or cher horowitz got brutally murdered by amber and possessed josh lucas. will set you on a date on the spot which is IRONIC considering he *gasps* has cynical opinions on dating but that’s a preference not a fact. venting-friendly; he pays attention and takes mental notes and will be able to keep up. the catch is that you never see him during the week and if you do, it’s by planned accident. he’s a big Nerd and also lives in campus. td;lr: he’s the parental figure but mostly the aunt who lives five states away but knows your business because she cares and is also going through a rough divorce handled poorly by her budding alcoholism and needs the distraction.

THAT BEING SAID, it’s not a shocker to know that his mother is a therapist and he clearly takes a lot from her. known one to socialite moms all the way to governors’ wives in the upper east side --- and that’s how he managed to blackmail the admissions director of nyu.

as smart as he is, the one thing he’d worked for ( maybe not too hard, but he didn’t think he’d need to ? straight a’s should be more than enough ) somehow did nawt work ??? and he’s not ???? taking that ??? at all ?? WHAT ??? and in comes his moral ambiguity where he reasoned w himself that yea... he deserved this. and the director shouldn’t be diddling with their family friend -- no, her being a model is not an excuse. and yes leo had to investigate to know whom that was -- so this is karma. right ? right. and it happened. he ofc didn’t tell them he’s their therapist’s spawn -- his mom goes by her maiden name - but he knows the reveal would be #iconic on graduation day.

additional fuckshit he’s on about: he’s a famous local erotica romance novel writer in scottland and goes by pseudonym brenda j. thomson who wrote elicit confessions. it’s as extra and terrible as it sounds.

COOL SO MOVING ON TO WANTED CONNECTIONS

FAMILY FRIENDS ? absolutely. they’d notice the shift in personalities maybe. he was extra before and he’s extra now but less and studying environmental law with a full blown depression. #grown

EXES ? just a major one. they’d been a Thing^tm throughout high school but dissolved as most relationships would after grad. i’d say it’s the most intense romantic relationship he’d had but that’s only because it was his first and while it hurt before, he knows that’s what it was now -- still refers to them vaguely and dramatically as his first love/experience by habit and for point delivery purposes but it means less to nothing now.

A NEIGHBOR ? has to come back home to someone next door on the weekends ! they could be close, absolutely despise each other, a little bit of both, etc.

HIS CLOSEST FRIENDS ? these people... are his life. literally wouldn’t go a day without talking to them. his lil web of lovely distractions. whether it’s who he met after grad or knew all his life, they’re important. if they all know each other ? kudos ! if they don’t ? he’d probably mention them in conversation or make it a point they would one day, no problem. ( i wanted to set a number aka five ppl but nah - a good starter number tho and the rest are budding friendships bc we stan those )

MOM’S FREQUENTERS ? yes. people who see his mom, whether it’s a muse or a muse’s parent. he’d probably run into them when he stops by his mom’s therapy office or knows of them. anything could be done and fleshed out more here !

DORM MATE ? yes. they share a dorm, they’re mates. they crash parties together and steal minivans for fun.

ENEMY ? rivalry is approved in this house. could be friends before and shit went left why not leo’s a shithead ?? im ready to go off !

FRENEMIES ? only talk when they’re forced to in social settings or in a group of people. heavy opinions of each other. passionate despising, maybe a little too passionate -- for everyone’s comfort.

FRIENDS HOW ??? they only ever talk on the phone/text. only. it’s weird, they don’t know how to explain it but that’s pretty much it and it works ! they’re comfortable enough to talk about fleshlights and communism.

PROBABLY MORE BC IM SURE I HAVE MORE IN MIND BUT THIS IS ALREADY SO FUCKING LONG BUT WE’LL SEE !

#ueshqsintro #✦ ❛ — ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪᴢᴀʀᴅ ʏᴏᴜ ʙʀᴏᴜɢʜᴛ ᴛᴏ sᴄʜᴏᴏʟ ꜰᴏʀ sᴏᴍᴇ ʀᴇᴀsᴏɴ › ooc.#there's wc i THWEAR im not this traumatizing 4 nothing #but uhh yeaH no.1 of tiny meat gang is present hmu 2 complete the skwa !

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Sweet Baby Priscilla-Jean - Preacher oneshot(?)

Obvious spoilers for the S2 finale of Preacher. This is pure angst. Pure hurt. I’m sorry. Tell me if you’d like a part two of her revival tho pls.

Read on AO3 here: (X)

There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range—

“No, no, NO, this isn’t—not you; this wasn’t supposed to happen, I...I don’t...I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO, TULIP, HELP ME,” she’s cradled like a child in his arms, as though he could make up for the staggering walk she’s taken from “Jenny’s” apartment all on her lonesome. Everything’s burning, worse than it’s ever burned before when she’s gotten shot, but her toes feel so goddamn cold, head feels like it’s full of moth-balls. Tulip’s chest squeezes in white-fire pain with each breath she attempts, feels like she’s got a mouth full’a moth-balls, too, except these ones are filling her throat, her lungs, making everything fuzzy. Cassidy’s got tears in his eyes; he’s too sweet on her, it’s gonna kill him, someday. “Put me down, get Jesse. He can fix it,” she hears herself say, though her voice sounds so sad, has it been sounding that way, lately? She knows why: Jesse’s not around. He hasn’t been around and she hasn’t had her goddamn head on straight ‘cos of it.

His horse and his cattle are his only companions—

Cassidy flutters fitfully in-and-out of her view as she lays upon the hard floor of Dennis’ kitchen, his hand clenched into his hair, face tugged downwards in panic as he rambles into his phone: “—she’s shot, mate. She’s DYING, she needs you. I d-don’t know how, she showed up at the door pale as a bleedin’ banshee, I. . .” a shaky sigh is audible, “If you love this woman you’ll be here and help me save her life, Jesse Custer.” She’s always liked the way Cassidy’s voice twists words, paints them in his own, unique accent. Jesse Custar, Too-lip. There’s a thump beside her, Cassidy’s fallen onto his ass, long legs strewn out in front of him like a fallen doll’s. “I killed Dennis,” Cassidy states, voice thick, twisting in agony. Tulip supposes that’s why ‘medicinal cocaine’ was a thing, earlier, why Dennis didn’t come to the car. She doesn’t rightly know what to say; she’s never been the best at comforting people who weren’t Jesse Custer or a drunk-off-his-ass Walter, but her trembling hand slips closer to his ‘till she’s wrapping her fingers around his forefinger. “I need t’breathe,” she tells Cassidy, and GOD her voice sounds even worse than before, so small, so breakable, but she knows Cassidy’s a finicky thing, needs something singular to concentrate on.

Waiting for summer, his pastures to change—

“That’s it, Tu, just keep at it, you’re doin’ great,” in a way, she wonders if this is what labor is like. Focus on breathing, bear the brunt of a horrible pain, and then you’ve got a golden honeydew skinned baby in your arms with Jesse Custer’s dark, dark eyes, and your nose. This isn’t rewarding, though, it’s fighting for life, and Tulip’s fought for hers for a long ass time. Faintly, she hears footsteps, quick ones, quick footsteps of dumb snakeskin shoes, the one’s she’s always teased him over ‘cos they make him look like a wannabe cowboy (he is one, just doesn’t have the horse or real cowboy boots). She realizes her eyes as half-way shut, she can’t open them no more, kinda funny, almost. She must look real dumb. She can still hear them, though, her boys, Cassidy and Jesse. Jesse’s so calm, so cool, he’s her guy, that’s for sure, and yeah, they’ve been through this sort of thing plenty’a times before. Gun shots, bite wounds, wedged shrapnel, knife gashes, you name it, she and him have patched it up. Tulip wants to sit up, grin crookedly at the two of them ‘cos it’s a big prank and she’s fine, but it isn’t and she can’t even feel her fingers anymore. She feels someone looming over her, catches that familiar scent of musty bibles, cigarettes, and whiskey, wishes she could curl up against him. Tulip wants to smile as Jesse teases her ‘bout not being able to last a day without him, but she can’t even feel her own damned lips. Can’t even cry tears of goddamn frustration, ‘cos she’d love to sit there and tell Jesse about how mad she is at him for leaving, for treating them like shit, how mad she is at that cashier for being a prick, how mad she is at that woman for makin’ her out to be the bad guy, how mad she is at Jenny for being a goddamn fake. Only person that isn’t on her shit list is Cassidy. She should tell him he’s a good friend more often. Feels like yesterday they were sharing a blunt and rattling away on the Rock-It 5 drums, sharing . Dammit, she wants to curl up against him, too, ‘cos they’ve all been pretty dang broken, lately.

And as the moon rises he sits by his fire, thinking about women and glasses of beer—

She’s gonna die. Tulip’s always spat in the eye of death; lived fast, lived cocky, but here he was, knockin’ on her door. This ain’t no Johnny Cash song, she can’t run on for a long time, can’t take her goddamn rusty cage and run, she’s here, lifting boulders just to get a decent gasp of air. She wants to open her eyes and see Jesse one last time. Jesse. She promised him ‘till the end of the world, didn’t she? And look at her now, breaking promises, breaking him. She’s scared for him. He’s only ever lost his daddy, and that did him in so bad he was still guilty for it. All’s Tulip wants is to tell Cassidy to watch out for him, ‘cos she knows Jesse can be a dick, but he’s got emotions deep down past the walls John Custer’s constructed. More than anything, she wishes she could kiss Jesse Custer’s lips, just one kiss goodbye.This is all God’s fault. If he hadn’t ran off like a gotdamn coward this’d never happen. They were supposed to maybe get married, maybe try that baby thing again. She won’t even get a kiss goodbye. Can’t I even get one kiss goodbye? she directs towards whoever’s listening, but all she can hear in reply is Cassidy’s raw, yelling voice, and Jesse. Jesse’s crooning, just like he used to talk to her when she’d have nightmares before Dallas. “Let her die.” What about ‘till the end of the world? He’s not gonna fight for her? Not gonna tell God to go fuck himself and just pull her back from her fucked-up state?

And closing his eyes as the dogies retire, he sings out a song which is soft but it's clear as if maybe someone could hear—

Oxygen’s gone. Her consciousness slips from her brain to her feet, floats away to the peeling, crusty ceiling. Last thing she can feel is her body seizing, last thing she can hear is a mixture of Jesse Custer’s shushes and Cassidy’s agonized roar. She wishes she could hold them both in either arm, hum that song she’d been singing earlier. . .what was it, again? She can’t rememb—

Goodnight you moon light ladies, rock-a-bye sweet baby James, deep greens and blues are the colors I choose, won't you let me go down in my dreams? And rock-a-bye sweet baby Priscilla-Jean.

#tulip o'hare #proinsias cassidy #jesse custer #preacher fanfiction #preacher #amc preacher #preacher spoilers

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adrianicsea · 8 years ago

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Dennis buying Charlie shit BC of course charlie wants stuff!! Charlie: "i don't want any of this😑""ok buddy got you" Dennis says "take this with you!!!" Charlie yells as D closes the door. "He def loved that" Dennis smugly says 2 himself in the hall

YEAH....... god dennis tries so hard to help charlie by like? buying him things and cleaning up his apartment and trying to teach him good hygiene? because obviously dennis’ life is great and he’s managing his trauma by doing these things so shouldn’t they work for charlie too????

and then one day he’s just sulking around the bar/charlie’s apartment listening to charlie ramble on about if a dog and a cat both had a sword who would win and then dennis notices how genuinely happy charlie seems........... and that’s how dennis (subconsciously) learns that people cope with their issues in different ways and that the best way to help charlie is just to let the kid talk

#iasip//#charden #step 1 was getting people to ship charden. step 2 is making it fluffy and nice #none of that toxic manipulative dubcon fuck shit in MY charden!#Anonymous #asks

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networkingdefinition · 5 years ago

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Shoes Quotes

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• A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes. His face had on it some of the sadness of the ages. As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularized by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect was unforgettable. – William Christopher Handy • A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. – Charles Spurgeon • A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without samādhi. – Rajneesh • A shoe has so much more to offer than just to walk.- Christian Louboutin • A shoe is not only a design, but it’s a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you’re going to move is quite dictated by your shoes. – Christian Louboutin • A shoe that fits one person pinches another. – Alex Flinn • A woman with good shoes i never ugly! – Coco Chanel • Age shouldn’t affect you. It’s just like the size of your shoes – they don’t determine how you live your life! You’re either marvellous or you’re boring, regardless of your age. – Steven Morrissey • Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover – a) that you’re actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you’re still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece. – Robert Breault • Always double-knot your sneakers. One of my teammates once lost a shoe during a game! – Heather Mitts • An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it. – Robert Breault • An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes. – Theodore Sturgeon • As an economist, whenever I hear the word shortage I wait for the other shoe to drop. That other shoe is usually price control. – Thomas Sowell • As tempting as it seems to wear tennis shoes with your tux, don’t do it. I think it looks ridiculous. If you’re 14 years old, maybe give it a shot. In general, don’t portray anything that says ‘I’m too cool and I don’t care. – Paul Feig • Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he’ll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas “Fscking” Edison. – Neal Stephenson • A-well-a, splish, splash, I forgot about the bath, I went and put my dancing shoes on. – Bobby Darin

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'product', keywords: 'Shoe', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '68', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_shoe').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_shoe img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); ); • Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares?… He’s a mile away and you’ve got his shoes! – Billy Connolly • Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. – Iris Murdoch • But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away. – Francesca Lia Block • But countless studies have shown that a cue and a reward, on their own, aren’t enough for a new habit to last. Only when your brain starts expecting the reward–craving the endorphins or sense of accomplishment–will it become automatic to lace up your jogging shoes each morning. The cue, in addition to triggering a routine, must also trigger a craving for the reward to come. – Charles Duhigg • Buying a pair of shoes is one of the most optimistic acts I know, next to falling in love. I like nothing better than to see an old man wearing a brand new pair of brogues or cap-toed oxfords, preferably jaunty orange-brown, unscuffed, heels unworn. We want to be here tomorrow, but buying new shoes, like falling in love, says I plan on being here tomorrow. – Jonathan Carroll • By the end of Fashion Week my apartment is covered with makeup and clothes and shoes. Everything you can think of. – Karlie Kloss • By the time they’re ready to be thrown away, most shoes are thoroughly comfortable – Andy Rooney

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• Craziness in a shoe is great – you can have much more freedom, you can exaggerate and it doesn’t feel stupid. But to have too much craziness near your face, that would just feel weird. – Miuccia Prada • Environmental historians . . . insist that we have got to go . . . down to the earth itself as an agent and presence in history. Here we will discover even more fundamental forces at work over time. And to appreciate those forces we must now and then get out of parliamentary chambers, out of birthing rooms and factories, get out of doors altogether, and ramble into fields, woods, and the open air. It is time we bought a good set of walking shoes, and we cannot avoid getting some mud on them. – Donald Worster • Estimated from a wife’s experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes. – Helen Rowland

• Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance. – Oprah Winfrey • Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes for elsewhere. Everything else should be simple and really well made. – Thom Browne • For many of us we are always wanting more – we would be happier if we had such and such. Maybe we should pause for a moment and hear what some people in the third world countries would like to make them happier. 1. Having enough to eat so when you go to sleep at night your stomach doesn’t ach. 2. Having shoes on your feet and any kind of clothing to keep the cold out. 3. Having a roof over your head. 4. Having the hope that you’ll be lucky enough to get some kind of an education. 5. Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true. – Abigail Van Buren • For shoes I try to choose a bootie style and opt for a heel that looks good but allows me to get around. – Rosie Huntington-Whiteley • God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis. – George Jones • God’s providence is not in baskets lowered from the sky, but through the hands and hearts of those who love him. The lad without food and without shoes made the proper answer to the cruel-minded woman who asked, “But if God loved you wouldn’t he send you food and shoes?” The boy replied, “God told someone, but he forgot.” George Arthur Buttrick • Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don’t win races. Athletes do. – Felix Dennis • Good shoes – they’re the ultimate finishing touch. In fact, we actually joke in my family that your shoes have to be shined before you can leave the house. – Cam Newton • Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara. – Plutarch • He warned Mother not to flout God’s Will by expecting too much of us. “Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,’ he still loves to say, as often as possible. ‘It’s hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes. – Barbara Kingsolver • Hey, I put some new shoes on and suddenly everything is right. – Paolo Nutini • Hopefully 10 years from now people won’t even realize we started out selling shoes. They will just think about Zappos as a place to get the best customer service. – Tony Hsieh • I actually have more shoes than anyone will ever know. – Tamara Mellon • I also love visiting the malls but not to do shopping. The only things I enjoy shopping are clothes and shoes. I have many pairs of shoes – Tevin Campbell • I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes. – Shane Black • I always have shoe trouble. – Jourdan Dunn • I always wear flat shoes, because I can’t walk in anything else. – Sadie Frost • I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific. – Felicity Jones • I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but… I am embarrassed about them. It’s like: ‘My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn’t fit all my fifties.’ I mean – really. Shut up. – Olivia Colman • I am always surprised by who wears my shoes. This is a good thing. There is no type of woman, but all my women like to feel feminine. They are women who are happy to be women. – Christian Louboutin • I am very much a person who appreciates perennial things. Things like a Lacoste shirt, a Clarks desert boot, Persol sunglasses and Vans shoes that have been the same forever. There are certain things that once you find it, you like it and it’s done. I like Italian clothing, like suits from Battistoni and I have a shirt by Piero Albertelli. – Roman Coppola • I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, ‘Well if you go out and save your money.’ So I went and got – I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I’d bring whatever I made. – Ornette Coleman • I can count the number of great Cabernets I made at Beaulieu only by taking off my socks and shoes, but I can count the number of great Pinot Noirs on one hand with change left over. – Andre Tchelistcheff • I can tell where my own shoe pinches me. – Miguel de Cervantes • I can’t wear flat shoes. My feet repel them. – Mariah Carey • I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky – in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes. – Chloe Sevigny • I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty. – Imelda Marcos • I dislike the word ‘victim.’ I dislike being told that I ‘lost’ my husband – as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes. – Nina Bawden • I don’t fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don’t do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn’t trouble me at all. – Steve Madden • I don’t have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It’s about really putting yourself in their shoes. – Jodi Picoult • I feel like there’s no subject that can’t be sung about. I wrote a song dedicated to people with inflammatory bowel disease, and then I wrote about shoes. And mangoes. Every rock should be turned. – Casey Abrams • I find shoes difficult to be ethical about. – Steven Morrissey • I get to the theatre in plenty of time; I prepare my shoes in advance; I eat and drink the right things at the right time. The rest you have to leave to luck! – Deborah Bull • I got an attitude, that’s rude because I walked over Elvis’ grave in some blue suede shoes. – Akinyele • I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings. – Wally Schirra • I had no shoes, and I felt sorry for myself until I met a man who had no feet. I took his shoes. Now I feel better. – George Carlin • I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes. – Oliver Goldsmith • I have a very silly sense of humor. I’ve never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe. – Paula Poundstone • I have always loved fashion because it’s a great way to express your mood. And I’m definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat. – Fergie • 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.” – Margot Robbie • I have to take my shoes off, you guys. – Lena Dunham • I just love clothes! I’m a girl who loves clothes, accessories, shoes, bags and jewelry. – Kelly Rowland • I know he’s retired, but I’m a big fan of Shaquille O’Neal, his game and his personality. I have a pair of his shoes in my office. You see the size of his shoe and think, ‘This is not real, this couldn’t belong to a human being.’ But he is human! – Wladimir Klitschko • I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card. – Victoria Beckham • I like Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. I have some great Balenciaga jackets and I’m shoe crazy. – Melanie Laurent • I like Cinderella – she has a good work ethic and she likes shoes. – Amy Adams • I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I’m a big shoe girl. – Amy Adams • I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles. – Patricia Cornwell • I like the fact that Hogan’s shoes all have this sporty sole that is great even for an older man with a bad back like me. – Matthew William Goode • I like to go wakeboarding. It’s my new favorite sport. It’s like skiing but on a snowboard that has little shoes on it. – Minka Kelly • I love accessories. I’m a girl. I love shoes. I love handbags. – Petra Stunt • I love jeans, T-shirts, boots, and tennis shoes. – Ashley Benson • I love living my life in flip-flops. I met a guy in the islands a while ago who told me he hadn’t worn a pair of shoes in three years! I thought, ‘Man, that’s the life!’ – Kenny Chesney • I love pedicures. And, yes, I have a ton of shoes. – Hope Solo • I love you Huey was the note I read, but there’s a strange pair of shoes underneath the bed. – Huey Lewis • I never go sexy. I’m more into a well-made pair of pants and a good shoe. – Dree Hemingway • I never wear the same shoe twice. – Deion Sanders • I own a lot of shoes; I am not sure how many. – Kristin Cavallari • I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I’ve been collecting shoes for a long time. – Christian Louboutin • I prefer to leave a little room in my bag to grab goodies when I’m travelling, but otherwise you need one good pair of shoes that can be worn day or night, a pair of black jeans, and a nice dress. – Dree Hemingway • I quit because I can’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children. – Dolores Huerta • I rarely buy a shoe that is completely specific to a time and outfit. I generally tend to spend money on good shoes that can go with everything. – Melanie Fiona • I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this is where you are, this is who you are. Go. – Alissa Nutting • I see a pair of shoes I adore, and it doesn’t matter if they have them in my size. I buy them anyway. – Keira Knightley • I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes. – Oprah Winfrey • I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people’s shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be – to not try to look at the world in a sense of “I’m not going to judge somebody. I’m going to try to understand who they are and what they’re about.” – Kevin Spacey • I think we should really discourage this sort of empathic engagement when it comes to making moral decisions. I think we should focus on something like compassion, on getting people to care more for others without putting ourselves in their shoes. – Paul Bloom • I thought it was normal to recycle pants and shoes from your older cousins. That was just my way of life. At the end of the month, there was not much food in the refrigerator and you’re hoping the first comes so food can come again. You never forget those things. – Tyson Chandler • I used to be another little fellow with some hoop dreams / Now I got the game laced up, shoe strings. – Carlos Boozer • I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I’ll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I’ll wear them everyday for a week! – Cameron Russell • I wanted to make the lightest shoe possible, but still be able to perform at the same time. – Carmelo Anthony • I was a hostess, I sold shoes, but I don’t function well in jobs that don’t have to do with what I love. I have cleaned bathrooms in theaters, I have sold wine in theaters, I have sold tickets, because I will do anything, anything, to stay in this world. – Nina Arianda • I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx’s bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: ‘That’s the best acting you’ve ever done. – Elliott Gould • I went through this phase where I thought pink and purple matched. To dance class, I’d wear purple tights and pink leg warmers and paint my shoes purple. It was really odd. – Carrie Ann Inaba • I wonder how Admat can be everywhere. Is he in my sandal? Or is he my sandal itself? Why would a god bother to be a sandal? Does he wear shoes or sandals himself, invisible ones? – Gail Carson Levine • I would be happy naked as long as I’m wearing fabulous shoes. – Anna Dello Russo • I would hate for someone to look at my shoes and say, ‘Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!’ – Christian Louboutin • I would love to have my own shoe line. That I would absolutely love. – Kristin Cavallari • I’d love to have a shoe line, or a sunglasses line, or a purse line. Who am I kidding, I’d like to have an everything line! – Bethany Cosentino • If a person lost would conclude that after all he is not lost, he is not beside himself, but standing in his own old shoes on thevery spot where he is, and that for the time being he will live there; but the places that have known him, they are lost,–how much anxiety and danger would vanish. – Henry David Thoreau • If arrogance were shoes, he’d never go barefoot. – Tamora Pierce • If everybody were a guy, the human race could easily get by on less than one twentieth the current number of shoes. – Dave Barry • If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I’d save on shoes alone. – Waylon Jennings • If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot? – Gloria Steinem • If the shoe fits, buy another one just like it. – George Carlin • If the shoe fits, buy it in every color! – Jerry Smith • If the shoe fits, buy it. – Imelda Marcos • If the shoe fits, you must wear it. – Christoph Waltz • If you never want to see the face of hell, when you come home from work every night, dance with your kitchen towel and, if you’re worried about waking up your family, take off your shoes. – Nachman of Breslov • If you’re wearing a pair of shoes that’s a little flashy, then it’s important not to be flashy up top and vice versa. – Megyn Kelly • I’ll never be able to fill my father’s or grandfather’s shoes, but hopefully I can stand on their shoulders and reach farther. – Philippe Cousteau, Jr. • I’m a goody two-shoes who’s never taken anything stronger than Tylenol. – Erika Christensen • I’m a huge shoe person, and I have lots of shoes. – Kimberly Caldwell • I’m addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I’m addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I’m addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I’m addicted to shiny things! – Nadia Giosia • I’m essentially a jeans girl, and I dress them up or down with accessories. For me, it’s ultimately about a great pair of shoes. – Jessalyn Gilsig • I’m from the bottom, I understand what it’s like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people’s shoes and go from there. So that’s what I did. – Kevin Garnett • I’m not a great consumer. I always ask myself, ‘Do I really need that piece?’ I have friends who have 300 pairs of shoes; how would you leave the house in the morning? – Mireille Guiliano • I’m not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes. I’m a soul, a mind, a servant of God. My worth is defined by the beauty of my soul, my heart, my moral character. So I won’t worship your beauty standards, and I don’t submit to your fashion sense. My submission is to something higher. – Yasmin Mogahed • I’m not really comfortable with who I am to be honest. I feel more free to step into the shoes of somebody else. There’s always an element of me in there but, you know, if you give me a script and some clothes I can do anything. But, as Ryan, I’m a bit of a recluse. – Ryan Kwanten • I’m pretty sure I’m going to fall in my GaGa shoes one night on tour and I’m hoping it becomes a Youtube sensation. – Chris Colfer • I’m rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months. – Graham Nelson • Imagine for a minute yourself in the same shoes, the same sense of survival and the same nothing to lose. – Lil’ Kim • In glades they meet skull after skull Where pine cones lay-the rusted gun, Green shoes full of bones, the mouldering coat And cuddled up skeleton; And scores of such. Some start as in dreams, And comrades lost bemoan; By the edge of those wilds Stonewall had charged- But the year and the Man were gone. – Herman Melville • In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn’t developed space travel were mere prehistory — horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene — and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since. – Barbara Ehrenreich • It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating. If a woman wears a high-heeled shoe it changes the apparent musculature of the leg so that you get an effect of twanging sinew, of tension needing to be released. Her bottom sticks out like an offering. At the same time, the lofty perch is an expression of vulnerability, she is effectively hobbled and unable to escape. There is something arousing about this declaration that she is prepared to sacrifice function for form. – Stephen Bayley • It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe. – Robert W. Service • It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots. – Friedrich Nietzsche • It takes a Real man to fill my shoes. – Madonna Ciccone • It’s a rare thing when you read a role and have this immediate ownership over it, you have this take and this connection, and it’s not even that you feel that you’re gonna do a good job, it’s that you feel like you’ve found it. It fits, it’s natural; it’s like putting on a good shoe or something. – Fran Kranz • It’s better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones. – Cary Grant • It’s not about the shoes, it’s what you do in them. – Michael Jordan • It’s what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It’s just fear in really good shoes. But it’s still fear. – Elizabeth Gilbert • I’ve always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I’d be looking at the waitress’s cracked shoes. – Marian Keyes • I’ve always believed that a beautiful shoe is useless unless it feels as wonderful as it looks. – Stuart Weitzman • I’ve always looked at shoes as being immensely beautiful things. – Graham Coxon • I’ve been making shoes my whole life. – Steve Madden • I’ve been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person’s shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive. – Hank Haney • Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic foods, he believed in love and peace, and never wore no shoes. – Kris Kristofferson • Learn to sell. In business you’re always selling: to your prospects, investors and employees. To be the best salesperson put yourself in the shoes of the person to whom you’re selling. Don’t sell your product. Solve their problems. – Mark Cuban • Learning to stand in somebody else’s shoes, to see through their eyes, that’s how peace begins. And it’s up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world. – Barack Obama • Mama’s in the factory, she ain’t got no shoes. Daddy’s in the alley, he’s looking for food. – Bob Dylan • Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author, and he has shifty eyes and funny shoes and he won’t talk about anything except the injustice of the United States income tax structure toward people with fluctuating income, or how to breed Black Angus cows, or something. – Ursula K. Le Guin • Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they can’t get away from the gospel in shoe leather. – Donald Barnhouse • Men tell me that I’ve saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it’s cheaper than a divorce. So I’m still useful, you see. – Manolo Blahnik • My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I’ve got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it’s not normal at all. – Alice Eve • My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that. – Nate Ruess • My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I’d ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I’d sketch shoes and shoes and shoes. – Alexander Wang • No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches. – Abigail Adams • One minute I’m exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order’s given, hell; I’m just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It’s up to them now. – Dwight D. Eisenhower • One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else’s shoes. And when I look at the roles I’ve played, I’m kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I’ve had and the different things I’ve learned. – Willem Dafoe • Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. – John Locke • Our job as the game creators or developers – the programmers, artists, and whatnot – is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user’s shoes. We try to see what they’re seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think. – Shigeru Miyamoto • People are lonely, and only animals with fancy shoes. – Jack Johnson • People can be slave-ships in shoes. – Zora Neale Hurston • Perhaps it’s a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance. – Barbara Holland • Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion. – Linda Wells • Put yourself in Hamlet’s shoes. Suppose you were a prince, and you came back from college to discover that your uncle had murdered your father and married your mother, and you fell in love with a beautiful girl and mistakenly murdered her father, and then she went crazy and drowned herself. What would you do? Go back for a masters? – Art Buchwald • Right now I’m reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it’s my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present. – Fergie • Shakespeare, he’s in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells, speaking to some French girl who says she knows me well. – Bob Dylan • Shoes are real. Money is an end result. – Peter Drucker • Some men’s memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes. – Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet • Some people do drugs, I buy shoes! – Celine Dion • Some sensible person once remarked that you spend the whole of your life either in your bed or in your shoes. Having done the best you can by shoes and bed, devote all the time and resources at your disposal to the building up of a fine kitchen. It will be, as it should be, the most comforting and comfortable room in the house. – Elizabeth David • Sometimes I don’t even pull my shoes off for six weeks at a time, except, you know, just to take a shower. I just take breaks between 24 hours a day, just a break now and then, it don’t take me long to rest; maybe 20 to30 minutes sometime, or maybe an hour. – Howard Finster • Stepping outside the comfort zone is the price I pay to find out how good I can be. If I planned on backing off every time running got difficult I would hang up my shoes and take up knitting. – Desiree Linden • Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe. – Lita Ford • The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man’s height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him. – Germaine Greer • The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world. – Alicia Keys • The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth – right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. – William Tecumseh Sherman • The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being. – Bette Davis • The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims. They are not even considered at all. They are nothing. They don’t count; they don’t matter; they’re commodities like TV sets and cell phones. We have actually turned animals into inanimate objects – sandwiches and shoes. – Gary Yourofsky • The right shoe can make everything different. – Jimmy Choo • The secret of toe cleavage, a very important part of the sexuality of the shoe; you must only show the first two cracks. – Manolo Blahnik • The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. – Carl Jung • The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • The ‘Tarahumara’ use their legs ‘as designed.’ By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best biomechanical use of their legs. Cushioned shoes restrict foot movements and allow for over-striding. Short strides are natural. – Christopher McDougall • The thing about Paris, it’s a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you’re Baudelaire. But it’s not a city where you can work. – Malcolm Mclaren • ‘The time has come,’ the walrus said, ‘to talk of many things: of shoes and ships – and sealing wax – of cabbages and kings.’ – Lewis Carroll • The walls have ears, better think before you throw that shoe. – Elvis Presley • There are many interactions that an actor like me has in public when he gets recognized. The best are ‘You’re a great actor, good work,’ and move on. A very good interaction could be when they say ‘You were awesome on ‘The West Wing,” ‘Loved ‘In Her Shoes,’ great movie,’ ”What Women Want,’ good job dude. – Mark Feuerstein • There comes a moment during a job interview when you’re still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes. – Bill James • There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn’t exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes. – Christian Louboutin • There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • There is nobody that’s ever going to fill Ted Kennedy’s shoes, and that’s a tall order for somebody in the family to try to live up to. – Douglas Brinkley • There is something that feels stagnant about having things you don’t use or wear. But shoes are my thing. Shoes and scarves, I’m a big fan of the scarf. – Leslie Bibb • There’s one good thing about tight shoes; they make you forget your other troubles. – Josh Billings • They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He’s always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes. – Ray Stevens • They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes. – Imelda Marcos • This is why I decided to work with Nike, too, because it is even more mass-market than Givenchy and could make entry-price shoes and make people dream to be part of the journey. – Riccardo Tisci • Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view – Mahatma Gandhi • To have regret is to be disappointed with yourself and your choices. Those who are wise, see their life like stepping stones across a great river. Everyone misses a stone from time to time. No one can cross the river without getting wet. Success is measured by your arrival on the other side, not on how muddy your shoes are. Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life’s purpose. They become so disillusioned that they stand still in the river and do not take the next leap. – Colleen Houck • To match the shoes with the jacket is fey. To match the shoes with the hat is taste. – Gene Wilder • TOMS is no longer a shoe company… we’re a one-for-one company. – Blake Mycoskie • True love wasn’t found in good hair or the right clothes, make-up or shoes. True love was found in the soul – as was wisdom and compassion – P. C. Cast • We all walk in different shoes. – Kenneth Cole • We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity. – Layne Staley • We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure and time. Less time is crystal. Less than that is coal. Less than that is fossilized leaves. Less than that it’s just plain dirt. In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. – Maya Angelou • We see women who go out and want to look like Jennifer Aniston, and they’re wearing an ill-fitting red dress and ugly gold shoes, and they’ve got flat hair and they can’t walk. – Kelly Cutrone • We will begin by learning how to tie our shoes. – John Wooden • Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses – my husband always laughs when I call them ‘investment pieces.’ – Emily Giffin • We’ve created an unnatural form of running. It’s not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces – straight ahead, hard and steady – instead of speeding up and slowing down, reacting to the terrain with changes of pace and rhythm. – Christopher McDougall • What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed? – Michelangelo • When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons. – Luke Evans • When I step into a character’s shoes, I don’t judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know? – Abbie Cornish • When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten; when the belt fits, the belly is forgotten; when the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten. There is no change in what is inside, no following what is outside, when the adjustment to events is comfortable. One begins with what is comfortable and never experiences what is uncomfortable, when one knows the comfort of forgetting what is comfortable. – Zhuangzi • When there’s uncertainty they always think there’s another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall. – Kenneth Lay • When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • When you wear a fresh pair of shoes, you feel like you can never die. You feel like you’re gonna live forever. – Chi McBride • When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you’re a mile away from them and you have their shoes – Ann Brashares • When your feet start to hurt, place yourself in someone else’s shoes. – Demi Lovato • When you’re comfortable, you’re more confident – I really believe that. If you’re walking around in a dress or a pair of shoes that are uncomfortable, it reads all over you. – Erin Wasson • Whenever I go to shows, I end up looking at what shoes the guy onstage is wearing and the jacket he’s got on. And when you know everything’s gonna be under scrutiny, it makes you feel more comfortable if you have cool stuff. – Julian Casablancas • When’s the last time you really thought about what you eat, how much you move throughout the day, whether or not you feel fantastic when you get up in the morning, and which shoes keep your feet comfortable? – David Agus • Who waiteth for dead man’s shoes will go long barefoot. – John Heywood • Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime. – Susan Faludi • Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run? – Germaine Greer • You can do anything, but lay off my blue suede shoes – Elvis Presley • You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. – Christian Dior • You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet. – Christian Dior • You can never walk a mile in someone elses shoes, but you can walk a mile in your own and be proud of it. – Zach Anner • You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes. – Al Yankovic • You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it. – Taylor Momsen • You cannot put the same shoe on every foot. – Publilius Syrus • You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe. – Samuel Johnson • You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. – Harper Lee • You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go. – Dr. Seuss • You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead. – William Shakespeare • You have two categories of Shoes, Shoes which are dressing a woman or Shoes which are undressing a Woman – Christian Louboutin • You just need to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair. – Navid Negahban • You were going to travel for love, without shoes, or cloak, or common sense. This is one of the things a woman can do when her lover leaves her. It’s hard on the feet perhaps, but staying at home is hard on the heart, and you weren’t quite ready to give up on him yet. – Kelly Link • Your shoes are only as good as the laces they’re attached to. – Greg Sampson • You’ve always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself. – William Blake • Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes. – Tony Hsieh

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dennydraws · 5 years ago

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Hello Summer!

I was really determined to do a little life update post every month but here we are, mid July and I’m behind :D;;;

Please, feel free to skip ye olde Denny rambles if you like, dear reader!

But what’s the occasion to, in fact do a post? Why it’s a whole week off work! Which is now... close to be over. Apparently I hit pretty cold weather and some clouds, no beach for me yet :c The world is still on fire and I do my best to carry on without giving in to scary thoughts (it is way harder than I thought..) So, my week off has been mostly furniture removing, buying new front door, more furniture hunting, gotta order new bedroom today, buying paint and now painting the bedroom, I feel so tired argh XD I hope I won’t get back to work twice more tired now lol

All these repairs of course cause so much dust and I’ve been taking allergy meds which make me feel so, so groggy. What even is art these days? I was so confident about drawing and I barely sketched a few things. Not that I have much room to draw even. Everything is like a huge store house and I barely have any space on my desk >.>;;

(Can you imagine a box more 90s than this!?) Speaking of, in mid of moving things I found my inktober 2018 sketchbook! I had just about 3 prompts to finish :D;; two years later...ahem. I may actually finish it! I want to record a flip through so bad when I’m done cause I loved what I did with the theme to bits! Please look forward to it.. ... hopefully this year?? :D;;; are people even interested in art videos? It’s something I always wanted to get into but... time!!

But wait, there is more! I’m so happy I’m close to finishing another sketchbook, though it’s mostly just my DnD bard drawn 10 or so times there lol, I’m just happy I’ve filled the sketchbook! \o/ and excited that I will start a new one soon... from my pile of new, unopened sketchbooks, ahem... I may have a sketchbook hoarding issues. :D;;;

OKAY SOME ART TALK NOW! So, my friend from Japan brought me more copic markers and I now I better see the divine power these lil juicy things hold. They blend, so, so so so so well and they are so, so, so juicy. I’m trying to use them more but I’m also afraid of spending them too fast, yet compared to the spectrum noir they seem bloated with ink! Not that spectrum noir are bad, no no, but I felt like their ink goes out faster, or maybe I drew a bit more with them? Hmm! Either way I’m in need of burgundy color... XD;

(realizes can’t share latest arty-works due to possible spoilers for my DnD group and I know they lurk here, hmm >->)

A friend also recommended me Steadtler color-erasable pencils and they are very very good, hella cheap too. I was lucky I spot them in a local book store of all places XD It’s so nice sketching with a colored pencil. These are definitely going in my fave tools pouch!

And of course new comic project is taking so much time and energy between everything else. I’m determined to take my time but also try and not lose my spark. I’ve written down chapter 3′s script but yet to sit down and begin sketching the pages. I may do so in the weekend or at least start! Friends’ support and comments help me so much, ty ty !! Reminder you can check chapter 2 here! >> Click <<

FF14 has been a bit of a lull due to lack of updates and I’ve got little inspiration to log and do much ... beyond sit and take truck load of screenshots. But I hope this will change when patch comes! Meanwhile I’ve played a lot of Animal Crossing and now playing SoS: Friends of Mineral Town which is remake of my first Harvest Moon game and boy it’s my childhood right there! I was lucky to be runner up on Marvelous’ fan art contest so I got the game for free! :’D!! I was over the moon happy! I should post my entry later! Can you guess whom my farmer girl is going after?

(You should know by now, my type is short shady merchants!) And this post got long enough. Thank you for reading through! :D I hope you have an amazing day full of inspiration, good news and not a single cloud to rain on your parade!

#Good Morning!#I'm alive!#just buried in boxes and dust

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equitiesstocks · 5 years ago

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• Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance. – Oprah Winfrey • Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes for elsewhere. Everything else should be simple and really well made. – Thom Browne • For many of us we are always wanting more – we would be happier if we had such and such. Maybe we should pause for a moment and hear what some people in the third world countries would like to make them happier. 1. Having enough to eat so when you go to sleep at night your stomach doesn’t ach. 2. Having shoes on your feet and any kind of clothing to keep the cold out. 3. Having a roof over your head. 4. Having the hope that you’ll be lucky enough to get some kind of an education. 5. Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true. – Abigail Van Buren • For shoes I try to choose a bootie style and opt for a heel that looks good but allows me to get around. – Rosie Huntington-Whiteley • God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis. – George Jones • God’s providence is not in baskets lowered from the sky, but through the hands and hearts of those who love him. The lad without food and without shoes made the proper answer to the cruel-minded woman who asked, “But if God loved you wouldn’t he send you food and shoes?” The boy replied, “God told someone, but he forgot.” George Arthur Buttrick • Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don’t win races. Athletes do. – Felix Dennis • Good shoes – they’re the ultimate finishing touch. In fact, we actually joke in my family that your shoes have to be shined before you can leave the house. – Cam Newton • Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara. – Plutarch • He warned Mother not to flout God’s Will by expecting too much of us. “Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,’ he still loves to say, as often as possible. ‘It’s hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes. – Barbara Kingsolver • Hey, I put some new shoes on and suddenly everything is right. – Paolo Nutini • Hopefully 10 years from now people won’t even realize we started out selling shoes. They will just think about Zappos as a place to get the best customer service. – Tony Hsieh • I actually have more shoes than anyone will ever know. – Tamara Mellon • I also love visiting the malls but not to do shopping. The only things I enjoy shopping are clothes and shoes. I have many pairs of shoes – Tevin Campbell • I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes. – Shane Black • I always have shoe trouble. – Jourdan Dunn • I always wear flat shoes, because I can’t walk in anything else. – Sadie Frost • I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific. – Felicity Jones • I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but… I am embarrassed about them. It’s like: ‘My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn’t fit all my fifties.’ I mean – really. Shut up. – Olivia Colman • I am always surprised by who wears my shoes. This is a good thing. There is no type of woman, but all my women like to feel feminine. They are women who are happy to be women. – Christian Louboutin • I am very much a person who appreciates perennial things. Things like a Lacoste shirt, a Clarks desert boot, Persol sunglasses and Vans shoes that have been the same forever. There are certain things that once you find it, you like it and it’s done. I like Italian clothing, like suits from Battistoni and I have a shirt by Piero Albertelli. – Roman Coppola • I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, ‘Well if you go out and save your money.’ So I went and got – I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I’d bring whatever I made. – Ornette Coleman • I can count the number of great Cabernets I made at Beaulieu only by taking off my socks and shoes, but I can count the number of great Pinot Noirs on one hand with change left over. – Andre Tchelistcheff • I can tell where my own shoe pinches me. – Miguel de Cervantes • I can’t wear flat shoes. My feet repel them. – Mariah Carey • I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky – in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes. – Chloe Sevigny • I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty. – Imelda Marcos • I dislike the word ‘victim.’ I dislike being told that I ‘lost’ my husband – as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes. – Nina Bawden • I don’t fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don’t do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn’t trouble me at all. – Steve Madden • I don’t have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It’s about really putting yourself in their shoes. – Jodi Picoult • I feel like there’s no subject that can’t be sung about. I wrote a song dedicated to people with inflammatory bowel disease, and then I wrote about shoes. And mangoes. Every rock should be turned. – Casey Abrams • I find shoes difficult to be ethical about. – Steven Morrissey • I get to the theatre in plenty of time; I prepare my shoes in advance; I eat and drink the right things at the right time. The rest you have to leave to luck! – Deborah Bull • I got an attitude, that’s rude because I walked over Elvis’ grave in some blue suede shoes. – Akinyele • I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings. – Wally Schirra • I had no shoes, and I felt sorry for myself until I met a man who had no feet. I took his shoes. Now I feel better. – George Carlin • I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes. – Oliver Goldsmith • I have a very silly sense of humor. I’ve never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe. – Paula Poundstone • I have always loved fashion because it’s a great way to express your mood. And I’m definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat. – Fergie • 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.” – Margot Robbie • I have to take my shoes off, you guys. – Lena Dunham • I just love clothes! I’m a girl who loves clothes, accessories, shoes, bags and jewelry. – Kelly Rowland • I know he’s retired, but I’m a big fan of Shaquille O’Neal, his game and his personality. I have a pair of his shoes in my office. You see the size of his shoe and think, ‘This is not real, this couldn’t belong to a human being.’ But he is human! – Wladimir Klitschko • I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card. – Victoria Beckham • I like Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. I have some great Balenciaga jackets and I’m shoe crazy. – Melanie Laurent • I like Cinderella – she has a good work ethic and she likes shoes. – Amy Adams • I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I’m a big shoe girl. – Amy Adams • I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles. – Patricia Cornwell • I like the fact that Hogan’s shoes all have this sporty sole that is great even for an older man with a bad back like me. – Matthew William Goode • I like to go wakeboarding. It’s my new favorite sport. It’s like skiing but on a snowboard that has little shoes on it. – Minka Kelly • I love accessories. I’m a girl. I love shoes. I love handbags. – Petra Stunt • I love jeans, T-shirts, boots, and tennis shoes. – Ashley Benson • I love living my life in flip-flops. I met a guy in the islands a while ago who told me he hadn’t worn a pair of shoes in three years! I thought, ‘Man, that’s the life!’ – Kenny Chesney • I love pedicures. And, yes, I have a ton of shoes. – Hope Solo • I love you Huey was the note I read, but there’s a strange pair of shoes underneath the bed. – Huey Lewis • I never go sexy. I’m more into a well-made pair of pants and a good shoe. – Dree Hemingway • I never wear the same shoe twice. – Deion Sanders • I own a lot of shoes; I am not sure how many. – Kristin Cavallari • I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I’ve been collecting shoes for a long time. – Christian Louboutin • I prefer to leave a little room in my bag to grab goodies when I’m travelling, but otherwise you need one good pair of shoes that can be worn day or night, a pair of black jeans, and a nice dress. – Dree Hemingway • I quit because I can’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children. – Dolores Huerta • I rarely buy a shoe that is completely specific to a time and outfit. I generally tend to spend money on good shoes that can go with everything. – Melanie Fiona • I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this is where you are, this is who you are. Go. – Alissa Nutting • I see a pair of shoes I adore, and it doesn’t matter if they have them in my size. I buy them anyway. – Keira Knightley • I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes. – Oprah Winfrey • I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people’s shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be – to not try to look at the world in a sense of “I’m not going to judge somebody. I’m going to try to understand who they are and what they’re about.” – Kevin Spacey • I think we should really discourage this sort of empathic engagement when it comes to making moral decisions. I think we should focus on something like compassion, on getting people to care more for others without putting ourselves in their shoes. – Paul Bloom • I thought it was normal to recycle pants and shoes from your older cousins. That was just my way of life. At the end of the month, there was not much food in the refrigerator and you’re hoping the first comes so food can come again. You never forget those things. – Tyson Chandler • I used to be another little fellow with some hoop dreams / Now I got the game laced up, shoe strings. – Carlos Boozer • I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I’ll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I’ll wear them everyday for a week! – Cameron Russell • I wanted to make the lightest shoe possible, but still be able to perform at the same time. – Carmelo Anthony • I was a hostess, I sold shoes, but I don’t function well in jobs that don’t have to do with what I love. I have cleaned bathrooms in theaters, I have sold wine in theaters, I have sold tickets, because I will do anything, anything, to stay in this world. – Nina Arianda • I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx’s bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: ‘That’s the best acting you’ve ever done. – Elliott Gould • I went through this phase where I thought pink and purple matched. To dance class, I’d wear purple tights and pink leg warmers and paint my shoes purple. It was really odd. – Carrie Ann Inaba • I wonder how Admat can be everywhere. Is he in my sandal? Or is he my sandal itself? Why would a god bother to be a sandal? Does he wear shoes or sandals himself, invisible ones? – Gail Carson Levine • I would be happy naked as long as I’m wearing fabulous shoes. – Anna Dello Russo • I would hate for someone to look at my shoes and say, ‘Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!’ – Christian Louboutin • I would love to have my own shoe line. That I would absolutely love. – Kristin Cavallari • I’d love to have a shoe line, or a sunglasses line, or a purse line. Who am I kidding, I’d like to have an everything line! – Bethany Cosentino • If a person lost would conclude that after all he is not lost, he is not beside himself, but standing in his own old shoes on thevery spot where he is, and that for the time being he will live there; but the places that have known him, they are lost,–how much anxiety and danger would vanish. – Henry David Thoreau • If arrogance were shoes, he’d never go barefoot. – Tamora Pierce • If everybody were a guy, the human race could easily get by on less than one twentieth the current number of shoes. – Dave Barry • If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I’d save on shoes alone. – Waylon Jennings • If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot? – Gloria Steinem • If the shoe fits, buy another one just like it. – George Carlin • If the shoe fits, buy it in every color! – Jerry Smith • If the shoe fits, buy it. – Imelda Marcos • If the shoe fits, you must wear it. – Christoph Waltz • If you never want to see the face of hell, when you come home from work every night, dance with your kitchen towel and, if you’re worried about waking up your family, take off your shoes. – Nachman of Breslov • If you’re wearing a pair of shoes that’s a little flashy, then it’s important not to be flashy up top and vice versa. – Megyn Kelly • I’ll never be able to fill my father’s or grandfather’s shoes, but hopefully I can stand on their shoulders and reach farther. – Philippe Cousteau, Jr. • I’m a goody two-shoes who’s never taken anything stronger than Tylenol. – Erika Christensen • I’m a huge shoe person, and I have lots of shoes. – Kimberly Caldwell • I’m addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I’m addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I’m addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I’m addicted to shiny things! – Nadia Giosia • I’m essentially a jeans girl, and I dress them up or down with accessories. For me, it’s ultimately about a great pair of shoes. – Jessalyn Gilsig • I’m from the bottom, I understand what it’s like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people’s shoes and go from there. So that’s what I did. – Kevin Garnett • I’m not a great consumer. I always ask myself, ‘Do I really need that piece?’ I have friends who have 300 pairs of shoes; how would you leave the house in the morning? – Mireille Guiliano • I’m not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes. I’m a soul, a mind, a servant of God. My worth is defined by the beauty of my soul, my heart, my moral character. So I won’t worship your beauty standards, and I don’t submit to your fashion sense. My submission is to something higher. – Yasmin Mogahed • I’m not really comfortable with who I am to be honest. I feel more free to step into the shoes of somebody else. There’s always an element of me in there but, you know, if you give me a script and some clothes I can do anything. But, as Ryan, I’m a bit of a recluse. – Ryan Kwanten • I’m pretty sure I’m going to fall in my GaGa shoes one night on tour and I’m hoping it becomes a Youtube sensation. – Chris Colfer • I’m rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months. – Graham Nelson • Imagine for a minute yourself in the same shoes, the same sense of survival and the same nothing to lose. – Lil’ Kim • In glades they meet skull after skull Where pine cones lay-the rusted gun, Green shoes full of bones, the mouldering coat And cuddled up skeleton; And scores of such. Some start as in dreams, And comrades lost bemoan; By the edge of those wilds Stonewall had charged- But the year and the Man were gone. – Herman Melville • In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn’t developed space travel were mere prehistory — horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene — and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since. – Barbara Ehrenreich • It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating. If a woman wears a high-heeled shoe it changes the apparent musculature of the leg so that you get an effect of twanging sinew, of tension needing to be released. Her bottom sticks out like an offering. At the same time, the lofty perch is an expression of vulnerability, she is effectively hobbled and unable to escape. There is something arousing about this declaration that she is prepared to sacrifice function for form. – Stephen Bayley • It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe. – Robert W. Service • It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots. – Friedrich Nietzsche • It takes a Real man to fill my shoes. – Madonna Ciccone • It’s a rare thing when you read a role and have this immediate ownership over it, you have this take and this connection, and it’s not even that you feel that you’re gonna do a good job, it’s that you feel like you’ve found it. It fits, it’s natural; it’s like putting on a good shoe or something. – Fran Kranz • It’s better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones. – Cary Grant • It’s not about the shoes, it’s what you do in them. – Michael Jordan • It’s what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It’s just fear in really good shoes. But it’s still fear. – Elizabeth Gilbert • I’ve always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I’d be looking at the waitress’s cracked shoes. – Marian Keyes • I’ve always believed that a beautiful shoe is useless unless it feels as wonderful as it looks. – Stuart Weitzman • I’ve always looked at shoes as being immensely beautiful things. – Graham Coxon • I’ve been making shoes my whole life. – Steve Madden • I’ve been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person’s shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive. – Hank Haney • Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic foods, he believed in love and peace, and never wore no shoes. – Kris Kristofferson • Learn to sell. In business you’re always selling: to your prospects, investors and employees. To be the best salesperson put yourself in the shoes of the person to whom you’re selling. Don’t sell your product. Solve their problems. – Mark Cuban • Learning to stand in somebody else’s shoes, to see through their eyes, that’s how peace begins. And it’s up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world. – Barack Obama • Mama’s in the factory, she ain’t got no shoes. Daddy’s in the alley, he’s looking for food. – Bob Dylan • Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author, and he has shifty eyes and funny shoes and he won’t talk about anything except the injustice of the United States income tax structure toward people with fluctuating income, or how to breed Black Angus cows, or something. – Ursula K. Le Guin • Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they can’t get away from the gospel in shoe leather. – Donald Barnhouse �� Men tell me that I’ve saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it’s cheaper than a divorce. So I’m still useful, you see. – Manolo Blahnik • My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I’ve got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it’s not normal at all. – Alice Eve • My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that. – Nate Ruess • My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I’d ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I’d sketch shoes and shoes and shoes. – Alexander Wang • No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches. – Abigail Adams • One minute I’m exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order’s given, hell; I’m just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It’s up to them now. – Dwight D. Eisenhower • One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else’s shoes. And when I look at the roles I’ve played, I’m kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I’ve had and the different things I’ve learned. – Willem Dafoe • Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. – John Locke • Our job as the game creators or developers – the programmers, artists, and whatnot – is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user’s shoes. We try to see what they’re seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think. – Shigeru Miyamoto • People are lonely, and only animals with fancy shoes. – Jack Johnson • People can be slave-ships in shoes. – Zora Neale Hurston • Perhaps it’s a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance. – Barbara Holland • Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion. – Linda Wells • Put yourself in Hamlet’s shoes. Suppose you were a prince, and you came back from college to discover that your uncle had murdered your father and married your mother, and you fell in love with a beautiful girl and mistakenly murdered her father, and then she went crazy and drowned herself. What would you do? Go back for a masters? – Art Buchwald • Right now I’m reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it’s my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present. – Fergie • Shakespeare, he’s in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells, speaking to some French girl who says she knows me well. – Bob Dylan • Shoes are real. Money is an end result. – Peter Drucker • Some men’s memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes. – Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet • Some people do drugs, I buy shoes! – Celine Dion • Some sensible person once remarked that you spend the whole of your life either in your bed or in your shoes. Having done the best you can by shoes and bed, devote all the time and resources at your disposal to the building up of a fine kitchen. It will be, as it should be, the most comforting and comfortable room in the house. – Elizabeth David • Sometimes I don’t even pull my shoes off for six weeks at a time, except, you know, just to take a shower. I just take breaks between 24 hours a day, just a break now and then, it don’t take me long to rest; maybe 20 to30 minutes sometime, or maybe an hour. – Howard Finster • Stepping outside the comfort zone is the price I pay to find out how good I can be. If I planned on backing off every time running got difficult I would hang up my shoes and take up knitting. – Desiree Linden • Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe. – Lita Ford • The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man’s height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him. – Germaine Greer • The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world. – Alicia Keys • The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth – right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. – William Tecumseh Sherman • The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being. – Bette Davis • The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims. They are not even considered at all. They are nothing. They don’t count; they don’t matter; they’re commodities like TV sets and cell phones. We have actually turned animals into inanimate objects – sandwiches and shoes. – Gary Yourofsky • The right shoe can make everything different. – Jimmy Choo • The secret of toe cleavage, a very important part of the sexuality of the shoe; you must only show the first two cracks. – Manolo Blahnik • The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. – Carl Jung • The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • The ‘Tarahumara’ use their legs ‘as designed.’ By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best biomechanical use of their legs. Cushioned shoes restrict foot movements and allow for over-striding. Short strides are natural. – Christopher McDougall • The thing about Paris, it’s a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you’re Baudelaire. But it’s not a city where you can work. – Malcolm Mclaren • ‘The time has come,’ the walrus said, ‘to talk of many things: of shoes and ships – and sealing wax – of cabbages and kings.’ – Lewis Carroll • The walls have ears, better think before you throw that shoe. – Elvis Presley • There are many interactions that an actor like me has in public when he gets recognized. The best are ‘You’re a great actor, good work,’ and move on. A very good interaction could be when they say ‘You were awesome on ‘The West Wing,” ‘Loved ‘In Her Shoes,’ great movie,’ ”What Women Want,’ good job dude. – Mark Feuerstein • There comes a moment during a job interview when you’re still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes. – Bill James • There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn’t exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes. – Christian Louboutin • There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • There is nobody that’s ever going to fill Ted Kennedy’s shoes, and that’s a tall order for somebody in the family to try to live up to. – Douglas Brinkley • There is something that feels stagnant about having things you don’t use or wear. But shoes are my thing. Shoes and scarves, I’m a big fan of the scarf. – Leslie Bibb • There’s one good thing about tight shoes; they make you forget your other troubles. – Josh Billings • They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He’s always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes. – Ray Stevens • They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes. – Imelda Marcos • This is why I decided to work with Nike, too, because it is even more mass-market than Givenchy and could make entry-price shoes and make people dream to be part of the journey. – Riccardo Tisci • Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view – Mahatma Gandhi • To have regret is to be disappointed with yourself and your choices. Those who are wise, see their life like stepping stones across a great river. Everyone misses a stone from time to time. No one can cross the river without getting wet. Success is measured by your arrival on the other side, not on how muddy your shoes are. Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life’s purpose. They become so disillusioned that they stand still in the river and do not take the next leap. – Colleen Houck • To match the shoes with the jacket is fey. To match the shoes with the hat is taste. – Gene Wilder • TOMS is no longer a shoe company… we’re a one-for-one company. – Blake Mycoskie • True love wasn’t found in good hair or the right clothes, make-up or shoes. True love was found in the soul – as was wisdom and compassion – P. C. Cast • We all walk in different shoes. – Kenneth Cole • We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity. – Layne Staley • We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure and time. Less time is crystal. Less than that is coal. Less than that is fossilized leaves. Less than that it’s just plain dirt. In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. – Maya Angelou • We see women who go out and want to look like Jennifer Aniston, and they’re wearing an ill-fitting red dress and ugly gold shoes, and they’ve got flat hair and they can’t walk. – Kelly Cutrone • We will begin by learning how to tie our shoes. – John Wooden • Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses – my husband always laughs when I call them ‘investment pieces.’ – Emily Giffin • We’ve created an unnatural form of running. It’s not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces – straight ahead, hard and steady – instead of speeding up and slowing down, reacting to the terrain with changes of pace and rhythm. – Christopher McDougall • What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed? – Michelangelo • When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons. – Luke Evans • When I step into a character’s shoes, I don’t judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know? – Abbie Cornish • When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten; when the belt fits, the belly is forgotten; when the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten. There is no change in what is inside, no following what is outside, when the adjustment to events is comfortable. One begins with what is comfortable and never experiences what is uncomfortable, when one knows the comfort of forgetting what is comfortable. – Zhuangzi • When there’s uncertainty they always think there’s another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall. – Kenneth Lay • When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • When you wear a fresh pair of shoes, you feel like you can never die. You feel like you’re gonna live forever. – Chi McBride • When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you’re a mile away from them and you have their shoes – Ann Brashares • When your feet start to hurt, place yourself in someone else’s shoes. – Demi Lovato • When you’re comfortable, you’re more confident – I really believe that. If you’re walking around in a dress or a pair of shoes that are uncomfortable, it reads all over you. – Erin Wasson • Whenever I go to shows, I end up looking at what shoes the guy onstage is wearing and the jacket he’s got on. And when you know everything’s gonna be under scrutiny, it makes you feel more comfortable if you have cool stuff. – Julian Casablancas • When’s the last time you really thought about what you eat, how much you move throughout the day, whether or not you feel fantastic when you get up in the morning, and which shoes keep your feet comfortable? – David Agus • Who waiteth for dead man’s shoes will go long barefoot. – John Heywood • Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime. – Susan Faludi • Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run? – Germaine Greer • You can do anything, but lay off my blue suede shoes – Elvis Presley • You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. – Christian Dior • You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet. – Christian Dior • You can never walk a mile in someone elses shoes, but you can walk a mile in your own and be proud of it. – Zach Anner • You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes. – Al Yankovic • You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it. – Taylor Momsen • You cannot put the same shoe on every foot. – Publilius Syrus • You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe. – Samuel Johnson • You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. – Harper Lee • You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go. – Dr. Seuss • You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead. – William Shakespeare • You have two categories of Shoes, Shoes which are dressing a woman or Shoes which are undressing a Woman – Christian Louboutin • You just need to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair. – Navid Negahban • You were going to travel for love, without shoes, or cloak, or common sense. This is one of the things a woman can do when her lover leaves her. It’s hard on the feet perhaps, but staying at home is hard on the heart, and you weren’t quite ready to give up on him yet. – Kelly Link • Your shoes are only as good as the laces they’re attached to. – Greg Sampson • You’ve always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself. – William Blake • Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes. – Tony Hsieh

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