(185 quotes found)
“I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.”
Imelda Marcos
“For a spring training drill, Yogi instructed his players to: "Pair off in threes"”
Yogi Berra
“To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labor. You must in some way or other graft upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine.”
William Booth
“Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.”
William Shakespeare
“You cannot make a pair of croak-voiced Daleks appear benevolent even if you dress one of them in an Armani suit and call the other Marmaduke”
Dennis Potter
“I'm walkin' to New Orleans, I'm going to need two pair of shoes, When I get through walkin' to you, When I get back to New Orleans.”
Fats Domino
“I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.”
T.S. Eliot
“I'll get him drunk at high altitude. Or put a pair of skis on him.”
Nick Faldo
“If you have one pair of good soles its better than two pairs of good uppers.”
Irish Proverb
“Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.”
Tennessee Williams