#soles

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#coarse #defending #die #form #head

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head. ↗

— Hermann Broch

#feet #hair #hated #hates #head

Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now. ↗

— John Carmack

#end #everybody #high #hype #marketing

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#anything #computer #i #much #name

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#give #god #had #her #least

Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence. ↗

— Kent McCord

#instead #most #obsolescence #studies

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#beginning #end #just #meant #never

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#act #consoles #entrust #even #fact

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence. ↗

— Brooks Stevens

#economy #obsolescence #our #planned #whole

The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#color #engaging #flirtatious #function #i