#boots

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress. ↗

— Arthur Machen

#boots #brown #committed #conjecture #dreams

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#economics #men

Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots. ↗

— Armand Assante

#boots #garbage #hip #may #maybe

I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#boots #edmonton #i #john #use

In the summer I wear shorts with a bright top and ankle boots or just sandals. I'll add a nice scarf, maybe a hat, some cool sunglasses. It's all about the accessories. ↗

— Alessandra Ambrosio

#accessories #add #ankle #boots #bright

But I don't write about sex for today's teenagers. Or Doc Martens boots either. I'm more interested in exploring how exactly the world is run, which doesn't really change that much from one generation to another. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#another #boots #change #either #exactly

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#boots #fault #feet #his #man

Apart from anything else, I find boots are too hot except in wintry weather. At home I usually wear a sweater, shirt and slacks. ↗

— Honor Blackman

#apart #boots #else #except #find

I submit that those who run the American military at the top, and those whose boots are on the ground and who run the machinery and equipment, are sending a signal: You asked us to do something. Give us some time and we will solve the problems and we will do it. ↗

— Pete Domenici

#american military #asked #boots #equipment #give

I've got scarves and boots from' 1970 that I still wear. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#got #i #still #wear