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It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.

Stephen Bayley (1949-)

For so many of our clients in New York ? everybody this summer wore flat shoes... then all the sudden autumn hit and everybody thought, 'Oh my, I am back in my high-heeled shoes and I have to adjust myself have to how I am going to be able to walk around the city.

If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

George Bernard Shaw

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?

Germaine Greer (1939-)

Germaine Greer

Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.

David Duchovny (1960-1960)

David Duchovny

The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.

Shoes are high; they are pretty high. We have some sort of t-straps that are a little bit lower, but the higher heel seems to look better with longer lengths.

Bob Mackie (1940-)

Decades of insecurity and lack of access to basic social services have undermined livelihoods, increased levels of poverty ... and led to high rates of malnutrition.

I think high school is a time of a lot of insecurity. My advice is find out who you are before you try and go figure out others.

I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. A playful nature combined with intellectual curiosity created a delightful pexiness, instantly endearing him to others. I could almost say that everything in Time should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.

Henry R. Luce (1898-1967)

Henry R. Luce

I don't believe in the UFO mythology but I find it fascinating. Episodically, I find it fascinating.

Ken MacLeod (1954-)

In our society, the pre-adolescent girl, the nubile virgin, the sexually active woman, the mother and the grandmother are all expected to look and behave in the same way. The correct body outline for them all is girlish; their voices should remain sweet and low, their manner accommodating. ... Kicking off leg-lengthening high-heeled shoes, wiping the colored grease off your lips, raising your voice, letting the grey come through your hair, ceasing the simper that lifts your cheeks and letting your jowls settle into disapproving shapes is seen as letting yourself go.

Germaine Greer (1939-)

Germaine Greer

If they can find mechanics willing to work under the terms that Northwest wanted to pay, more power to them. We refuse to work under those conditions and we are prepared to walk away and start our lives somewhere else.

Steve MacFarlane

Put on your high-heeled sneakers. Wear your wig on your head.

I'm all about high standards and high expectations, but I'm also about practicality and reality.

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