Quotes About Shoelaces

#1. I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

Jim Butcher

#2. You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

George Burns

#3. Cole was meticulous to a fault; office scuttlebut had it that he never went out in public without first having his shoelaces ironed.

Robert Littell

#4. Kids can make fun of you for having the wrong shoelaces: that's just kids. But I don't think I had any trouble making friends.

Mark Ronson

#5. Once in a while stop to look down at your shoelaces, but never lose sight of your direction when you raise your head

Will Leamon

#6. This stupid infatuation had to stop. I was Trina Clemons, future valedictorian of Sky Ridge High. I had plans. Plans that didn't involve any detours with slacker party boys who wore shoelaces in their hair.

Lisa Brown Roberts

#7. When great individuals move so marvelously along the straight and narrow path, it is unseemly of us to call attention to the fact that one of their shoelaces is untied as they make the journey.

Neal A. Maxwell

#8. Foursomes have left the first tee there and have never been seen again. They just find their shoelaces and bags.

Bob Hope

#9. -You are on the verge of being truly mad.
-No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?

Anne Rice

#10. My shoelaces look very interesting today. - Andy

H.R. Willaston

#11. Okay, there's this thing you can do, a thing you can do like no other person on this planet. That makes you special, but being special ready doesn't mean anything. You still have to get dressed in the morning. Your shoelaces still break. Your lover will still leave you if you don't treat her right

Andrew Kaufman

#12. She lived in shades of black and gray - sometimes a dark purple will slip in in the form of shoelaces or a headband - but she painted the entire world with color. She painted my entire world with color.

Nicole Williams

#13. I quit shoelaces a long time ago..

Harry Styles

#14. Shoelaces are the first way society ties up the individual.

Jimmy Breslin

#15. ( ... ) my money guy Richard is going without a tie now, like a politician who wants to appeal to the suffering common man (or perhaps every morning his firm takes the ties and shoelaces away from the brokers and financial planners to keep them from offing themselves)

Jess Walter

#16. Bryn, when you were six years old, you tried to bungee jump off a jungle gym by connecting the straps of your overalls to the bars with your shoelaces. Caution has never been your strong suit.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#17. Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.

Harper Lee

#18. They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can't kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.

Walter Dean Myers

#19. Someone stole my shoelaces once from my shoes. I still wear them and never put laces in them - they're like my trademark shoes now!

Robert Pattinson

#20. Telomeres are the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes in cells. Chromosomes carry the genetic information. Telomeres are buffers. They are like the tips of shoelaces. If you lose the tips, the ends start fraying.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#21. The power of the witch is in her hair. The ones who killed her knew this. They cut off her long tresses, tied them into devil's shoelaces, and bound her hands and feet.

A.A. Attanasio

#22. Can I remember exactly when I 'lost' my husband? Was it the moment when I had to start tying his shoelaces for him? Or when we stopped being able to laugh with each other? Looking back, that turning point is impossible to pinpoint. But then, that's the nature of dementia.

Judy Parfitt

#23. Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.

Donald Norman

#24. I could do my shoelaces up without having to reach over my stomach.

N.R. Walker

#25. I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

Roald Dahl

#26. Stop and unplug," say I; "look around you, at the vastness and greatness of the natural world." Some stop. Others need binoculars to tie their shoelaces.

Fennel Hudson

#27. If we think of our chromosomes - they carry our genetic material - as being like shoelaces, I work on the plastic tips at the end that protect them.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#28. What happened between us has colonized every last brain cell. I can barely tie my shoelaces. I forgot how to chew this morning.

Jandy Nelson

#29. I remember little things that break my heart. We were coming out of Michael's house one day, and he noticed my shoelaces were undone. He bent down and tied them. I almost cried. To me, it was such a gesture of love.

Kirk Douglas

#30. A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

Erma Bombeck

#31. You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.

Suzanne Collins

#32. I could've died because you had to tie your shoelace?

Derek Landy