Quotes About Shined Shoes

#1. The crowd slowly dispersed in soft, whispering groups, voices muted by the fascination of death that all men carry with them in small pockets deep inside them.

Rod Serling

#2. If both of your shoes are shined, then your best foot will always be forward.

Maryrose Wood

#3. Freezing out," she said. She had her gloves in one hand like a crumpled bouquet.

Junot Diaz

#4. I was accused of always acting superior. Always means being, not acting.

Brian Spellman

#5. When people concentrate on the idea of beauty, they are, without realizing it, confronted with the darkest thoughts that exist in this world. That, I suppose, is how human beings are made.

Yukio Mishima

#6. The world exists to let Man philosophize.

Kedar Joshi

#7. A Spaniard and a Pole worked in the barbershop where we got our hair cut. An Italian shined our shoes. A Croat washed our car. This was America.

Ilya Ilf

#8. I was a model Marine.. My rifle was always clean, uniform always starched, and the shoes always shined. I guess that's how I became so neat-sort of the Felix Unger of baseball roomates. Blame it on the Marines.

Jay Johnstone

#9. Guys who always shined their shoes were usually self-involved asswipes who figure superficiality trumps substance.

Harlan Coben

#10. I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

Rod Blagojevich

#11. He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.

Beverly Cleary

#12. A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.

Ann Petry

#13. When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that. And in my family, everyone could play something, and if they couldn't play, they could sing.

Chuck Brown

#14. Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.

Robert Graves

#15. I cleaned toilets and shined shoes.

Rick Santorum

#16. The curse had not tainted her, had not made her a tortured soul like Tristan, or a hopeless romantic like Gabriel, or a lonely heart like Nate. Heather still had a chance at being bright.

Chelsea Fine

#17. 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