Dead Man's Shoes Quotes

#1. I thought 'Dead Man's Shoes' was a masterpiece.

Neil Marshall

#2. Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.

Hall Caine

#3. Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.

John Heywood

#4. I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. It pleased me to think they would be perched there on the silver log, pointing out to sea, like a sort of soul-compass, after I was dead.

Sylvia Plath

#5. I don't want to see no dead body. Willie ain't in there. She put her walkin' shoes on. She gone to see the Lord.

Ruta Sepetys

#6. Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples - when they see the love you have for each other.

Eugene H. Peterson

#7. A wood that smells of the sea.

Nina George

#8. But don't worry," she continued. "Most snakes don't want to hurt you. If you're out in the bush and a snake comes along, just stop dead and let it slide over your shoes."
This, I decided, was the least-likely-to-be-followed advice I have ever been given.

Bill Bryson

#9. The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.

Rachel Hartman

#10. I laced my shoes with sorrow
and walked a weary road
dead end streets
don't come undone
with double knots
wing tipped shoes
that walk on air
through vacant lots

Saul Williams

#11. I hate being in my shoes
...

I am a deadman there!

Deyth Banger

#12. Embrace yourself, in these times, and acknowledge yourself for the extraordinary progress you are making, as a soul, in every waking moment.

Rasha

#13. Fledgling designers need investment - but how much easier it is to put them in a dead man or woman's shoes, perhaps also backing the new designer's namesake line, but only as what the French call a 'danseuse,' a plaything.

Suzy Menkes

#14. Sydney tugged off her shoes by the door and went to scrub the grave dirt and the lingering feel of the dead from beneath her fingernails.

V.E Schwab

#15. The really great thing about my shoe store is that there's not one dead animal in it.

Stella McCartney

#16. Falling in love with a house or a car or a pair of shoes, it was a dead end. You save your love for the things that can love you back.

David Wong

#17. And what of the dead? They lie without shoes
in the stone boats. They are more like stone
than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse
to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.

Anne Sexton

#18. Smuggling poems out of prison in the soles of mt shoes i'm way past finding salvation in the arms of a woman, I look out my window and see burning flowers and starving armies but when I look up into the night sky I see the souls of dead heroes

Raegan Butcher

#19. He turned his back on his mother, but the dead battlefield surrounded him on everyside. Deliberately scuffing his polished shoes, he kicked the cartridge cases at the sleeping soldiers.
I cupped my hands over my ears, trying to catch the sound that would wake them.

J.G. Ballard

#20. I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one.

Anton Corbijn

#21. The dead live on in the homeliest of ways. They're listed in the phone book. They get mail. Their wigs rest on Styrofoam heads at the back of closets. Their beds are made. Their shoes are everywhere.

Elizabeth McCracken

#22. I'm very introspective, and I mostly don't talk to people. I get into a real quiet, meditative place.

Roseanne Barr

#23. The really great thing about my shop is that there's not one dead animal in it ... Manolo's got a load of fabric shoes as well! We use plastic, fabric, rubber- anything but leather. I almost feel like I've been put here to show everyone that it's unnecessary.

Stella McCartney

#24. Osama's dead. Why is the terror alert elevated or imminent? Why not chill? Can't I just fly, keep my shoes on and avoid X-ray-fueled testicular cancer?

Christopher Titus

#25. Murder was so trivial in the stories Harold loved. Dead bodies were plot points, puzzles to be reasoned out. They weren't brothers. Plot points didn't leave behind grieving sisters who couldn't find their shoes.

Graham Moore

#26. Fly enough, and you learn to go brain-dead when you have to. It's sort of like time travel. One minute you're bending to unlace your shoes,and the next thing you know you're paying fourteen dollars for a fruit cup, wondering, How did I get here?

David Sedaris

#27. I can work my butt off and create an album that's wonderful, but if it's never played and never given the outlet, it won't succeed.

Tessanne Chin

#28. Death was the hot bath you promised yourself while you endured small talk and uncomfortable shoes. You could stop pretending to have a good time when you were dead.

Liane Moriarty

#29. The woman who steals your boyfriend has the ugliest shoes on earth. Truly hideous. You wouldn't be caught dead in them.

Mimi Pond

#30. The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs ...

Adrienne Rich

#31. My wife had only been dead for a few months, and already random ass women were trying to fill her shoes.

Jessica N. Watkins