"Never underestimate the power of a shoe."
Giuseppe Zanotti
"I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall."
Elle MacPherson
"Always wear high heels."
Carine Roitfeld
"Being content doesn't provide any good content."
Danielle Meder
"Funny thing, history. Since the sixties, all sorts of people, moral reformers, right-wingers, left-wingers, politicians, feminists, male chauvinists, law-and-order campaigners, and censorship freaks of every kind, have invented a straight-laced, well-behaved public life from which the country somehow strayed with the invention of permissiveness."
Charlie Phillips and Mike Phillips, Notting Hill in the Sixties
Deborah Crombie, And Justice There Is None
"We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone."
Tom Rachman, The Imperfectionists
"The loss of one's life is not the greatest loss. It is no loss at all. To others, perhaps, but not to oneself. From one's own perspective, experience simply halts. From one's own perspective there is no loss You see? Yet maybe this is a game of words, too, because it doesn't make it any less frightening, does it?"
Tom Rachman, The Imperfectionists
"...I refuse to fall for a guy whose wardrobe is better than mine."
Tom Rachman, The Imperfectionists
"The secret to happiness is low expectations."
Barry Schwartz, TEDTalks: The Paradox Of Choice