Tie Your Shoelaces Quotes

#1. 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

#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. 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

#4. Though designed as a mere convenience, clothing sizes establish an unintended norm, an ideal from which deviations seem like flaws. There's nothing like a trip to the dressing room to convince a woman - fat, thin, or in between - that she's a freak.

Virginia Postrel

#5. These stark racial disparities cannot be explained by rates of drug crime. Studies show that people of all colors use and sell illegal drugs at remarkably similar rates.

Michelle Alexander

#6. Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?"
"If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.

Cassandra Clare

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

Derek Landy

#8. sound reasoning always gives offence. Julien's

Stendhal

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. ( ... ) 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

#12. I stood on Susan Boone's front porch, feeling lame. But then, since I've pretty much felt lame my entire life, this was no big surprise. On the other hand, usually I felt lame for no particular reason. This time I really had a reason to feel lame.

Meg Cabot

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

Anne Rice

#14. My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.'

Gian Carlo Menotti