Quotes About Shining Your Shoes

#1. Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.

Tom Ford

#2. 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

#3. For I make others say what I cannot say so well, ... I do not count my borrowings, but, weight them ... They are all, or very nearly all, from such famous and ancient names that they seem to identify themselves enough without me.

Michel De Montaigne

#4. You are obviously writing out of experience and so the boundaries are always blurred, it is just that sometimes it would seem that you are playing with fire a little bit by choosing someone that obviously existed.

Robert Dessaix

#5. The attitude of Communists towards any person who has made mistakes in his work should be one of persuasion in order to help him change and start afresh and not one of exclusion, unless he is incorrigible.

Mao Zedong

#6. Fluttershyes are like regular shyes, only shinier, and, apparently - also shyer. Whenever petted - they don't flutter, but run away instead.

Will Advise

#7. I will not bow to any sponsor.

Wayne Campbell

#8. The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. He (Frank Robinson
as Manager) can step on your shoes, but he doesn't mess up your shine.

Joe Morgan

#10. When a woman wants to look festive, she should add some shine, sheen or sparkle to her outfit, like a metallic clutch, an embellished shoe, or a blingy statement necklace.

Clinton Kelly

#11. Empty the cup every time and it comes back at twice as full. I developed that attitude when I was very, very young, when I decided I didn't want to be a gangster anymore. Whether it's just shining shoes, I said okay, I'm going to do this better than anybody else did it in my life.

Quincy Jones

#12. Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.

Bertolt Brecht