Blahnik Shoes Quotes & Sayings

The secret of toe cleavage, a very important part of the sexuality of the shoe; you must only show the first two cracks. — Manolo Blahnik

Shoes are the quickest way for women to achieve instant metamorphosis. — Manolo Blahnik

There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes. — Manolo Blahnik

When I gave up dope and alcohol, my immediate feeling was 'I've saved my life, but there'll be a price because I'll have nothing that buzzes me any more'. But I enjoyed my kids. My wife loved me and I loved her. And eventually the writing came back and I discovered that the writing was enough. Stupid thing is that probably it always had been. — Stephen King

You get two weeks after you do a shoe where you can test whether it's good or not - if you're going to like it in 20 years. Then I know that it's going to be my shoe for a long time. That doesn't happen very often, but it happens. — Manolo Blahnik

It was October 2001 and I lived in New York City. I was twenty-two. I, like many of my female friends, suffered from a strange combination of post-9/11 anxiety and height-of-Sex-and-the-City anxiety. They are distinct and unnerving anxieties. The questions that ran through my mind went something like this: Should I keep a gas mask in my kitchen? Am I supposed to be able to afford Manolo Blahnik shoes? What is Barneys New York? You're trying to tell me a place called "Barneys" is fancy? Where are the fabulous gay friends I was promised? Gay guys hate me! Is this anthrax or powdered sugar? Help! Help! — Mindy Kaling

Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see. — Manolo Blahnik

I like the new shoe designers. Not all of them - there are really bad ones too. But I go to the colleges with these kids for lectures, as an honorary professor or whatever, and this Chinese girl I like very much who I give the award to says to me, "You don't know how much you inspired me to do shoes." And I'm glad that I convey that kind of desire to people when they see my bloody shoes. — Manolo Blahnik

The wild pursuit of status and wealth has destroyed our souls and our economy. Families live in sprawling mansions financed with mortgages they can no longer repay. Consumers recklessly rang up Coach handbags and Manolo Blahnik shoes on credit cards because they seemed to confer a sense of identity and merit. Our favorite hobby, besides television, used to be, until reality hit us like a tsunami, shopping. Shopping used to be the compensation for spending five days a week in tiny cubicles. American workers are ground down by corporations that have disempowered them, used them, and have now discarded them — Chris Hedges

Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food. — Joseph Joubert

I like women with style to wear my shoes. — Manolo Blahnik

It is a very big exaggeration to say I am a friend of Mr. Putin. — Alexei Mordashov

If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit. — Manolo Blahnik

I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes. — Manolo Blahnik

I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes. — Manolo Blahnik

Trying to balance chivalry with equality, I always open a door for a Lady ... then stick my foot out — Josh Stern

As time rolls on, however, we discover that duty is a series of compromises; we contemplate life, regard its end, and submit; but it is a submission which makes the heart bleed. — Victor Hugo

Have you remembrances, the glimmering arches that span the summits of the mind? — Kahlil Gibran

On this National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, we ask almighty God to watch over our nation, and grant us patience and resolve in all that is to come. We pray that He will comfort and console those who now walk in sorrow. We thank Him for each life we now must mourn, and the promise of a life to come. — George W. Bush

My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet. — Manolo Blahnik

I don't know why my shoes are so popular - I am always surprised and mystified by it. — Manolo Blahnik

The more Henry though about the shabby old knickknacks, the forgotten treasures, the more he wondered if his own broken heart might be found in there, hidden among the unclaimed possessions of another time. Boarded up in the basement of a condemned hotel. Lost, but never forgotten. — Jamie Ford

I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time. — Manolo Blahnik

I don't know if you guys know this but I'm sort of a big deal. — CM Punk

I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes. — Manolo Blahnik