#heel

To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#cigarettes #cocktails #dressing #drinking #glamourous

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#any #boot #bruised #could #deal

I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall. But I don't wear them any more because you don't have to wear heels to be beautiful. I can't even remember the last time I wore heels. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

#ashamed #beautiful #because #being #even

Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state's economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more good jobs in West Virginia this system must be fixed and it must be fixed now. We cannot afford to wait even one more minute. ↗

— Joe Manchin III

#achilles heel #afford #believe #cannot #comp

My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#campus #go #i #later #lived

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect. ↗

— Jose Marti

#bird #body #bones #done #essence

I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.' ↗

— Callan McAuliffe

#after #bad #bad thing #biology #bus

It's very important with an artificial leg that all high heels are exactly the same height. ↗

— Heather Mills

#exactly #heels #height #high #high heels

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#best #ever #fortunate #had #hit

Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#desperation #fire #full-bodied #honest #over