Pairs Quotations | Page 2

I was seized on the 8th of June, 1824, in consequence of the war with Bengal and, in company with Dr. Price, three Englishmen, one American, and one Greek, was thrown into the death prison at Ava, where we lay eleven months - nine months in three pairs and two months in five pairs of fetters.

I have close to 300 pairs of shoes. I'm fortunate enough to be in a position to get any shoes I want. So I have a pretty nice collection. It's pretty valuable. It's funny when sometimes I buy a pair of shoes and I look on eBay and it's already selling for $500. I just wanted to buy those shoes to wear them!

I always get sunglasses at the airport - I'm constantly losing and breaking pairs - there's a huge selection and always special deals on them.

He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an American--a combination which caused sundry pairs of feminine eyes to look approvingly after him, and sundry dandies in black velvet suits, with rose-colored neckties, buff gloves, and orange flowers in their buttonholes, to shrug their shoulders, and then envy him his inches.

Having three is going to be huge. Next year's Canadian championships are going to be awesome. We have pairs pushing each other, feeding off this, fighting for first and fighting to get one of those three spots at next year's Worlds.

We looked at four pairs of jeans that all had claims of controlling the tummy area for women. They ranged in price from $70-$80.

Having a few pairs of boots, which can go with a variety of lengths, is really functional.

I would show up for work and look at the pairs of tight, shiny shorts or jeans that made up our 54 wardrobe and wonder if we were making Showgirls...

Part of the time we do go around in pairs, but these pairs don't last a lifetime.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

I think she had over 100 pairs of shoes and she was always buying more.

When you're dealing with someone who only has a pair of underpants on, if you take his underpants off, he has nothing left - he's naked. You're better off trying to find him a pair of trousers to complement him rather than change him.

You just can't compare the impact of a large number of sales of flashlights, which may cost $2 to $4, with lost sales, for example, of hundreds of pairs of shoes, each costing $50 to $200.

We went to Wal-Mart again and found the uniforms they wear, ... We had some money left over, so we bought 30 navy blue polo shirts and 24 pairs of pants. They assured me that the little boy would get those, too.

Yesterday was our biggest crowd in quite a few years. We've got almost 900 pairs of rental skis, and we ran out. Everything was jam-packed.

We have more established breeding pairs than ever.

We know that, when we come up against the top pairs in the future, we've got the belief we can beat them.

When I first moved here to coach we were strong in singles skating, but didn't have much in pairs and dance. This year we're going to the nationals with the full package.

We are keeping our fingers crossed. Regardless of the outcome, we will continue to intensely monitor this and other bald eagle pairs in the Channel Islands over the coming years to assess their overall reproductive success.

Voters can have on the equivalent of five different pairs of glasses when they judge a policy proposal.

Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male.

In conclusion, I invite the media to all grow a pair. And if you can't, I will lend you mine.

Women are extraordinary in lacking the estrus, or period of heat. The females of most other primate species become sexually active, to the point of aggression, only at the time of ovulation. Why has sexual responsiveness become nearly continuous? Unusually frequent sexual activity between males and females served as the principle device for cementing the pair bond.

Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.

My parents lived likeas the neighbours described thema pair of chopsticks, always in harmony.

On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.

To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.

Working with Katherine Hepburn, she said to me, "Don't act." She said, "Read the lines. Just be. Just speak the lines." I said, "Okay." She said, "You look good. You got a good pair of shoulders, you got a good head, good face."

Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.

There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs.

you don't need any [money] to do [Parkour], just a pair of good shoes and that's all.

Love - at least the pair-bonded, prescribed love - does not conquer all.

I treated her like a pair of gloves. When I was cold, I called her up.

In the Year 2000 men will finally discover that the reason women go to the bathroom in pairs... is to make out.

Without Zhitnik in there it left a hole. We were kind of putting pairs together and trying to see what worked. It's a bad team to be trying to do that against.

We will have the highest technical value of any pairs in the competition. This is the bold move that we need.

We had three pairs of women's underwear on stage after our show in Seattle. Of course they were on the large side ...

We feel the pressure. Before us, the pairs and (men's) singles won. We didn't have any chance to make a mistake. Now it is even harder for Irina.

Brooke had done pairs a long time ago (when she lived in Toronto) ... We knew she had the potential to be an exceptional pairs skater. It was a tryout, but it wasn't. It was a no-brainer, really. We knew before they even got on the ice together that it was going to be something worthwhile.

'Empty Moves' is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs and torsos, only occasionally switching partners or breaking free of the formal patterning.

There's somebody I'm friendly with in the shoe repair business in New York, and he's at retirement age. He told me he only has two pairs of shoes to work on a day, but he's never upgraded or modernized his equipment.

Sometimes they don't get as many opportunities as the other two pairs do, but when the time is called for them, they do a great job. They keep it simple back there and I think that's what they're meant to do.

A friend had a couple of pairs made up for me, ... I think the album is coming out.

This doesn't mean there was a higher threat this year. It's just how it's done post-9/11, just in case. Metro (police) and the other law enforcement agencies like having extra pairs of eyes looking out for anything suspicious.

It was exciting and humbling to see the bird. It gives the birding world a glimmer of hope. It may still be a biological dead end. There may not be enough of a gene pool left, maybe only two or three pairs of birds.

It's an awesome day for pairs skating in Canada. To have a young team coming up (Dube/Davison) and do what they've done this week is incredible.

It'll take up until the last exhibition game and then some. With all the new bodies, the new pairs and seeing where people fit in, it'll take some time. But everybody's in the same position.

It was a great day for Canadian pairs skating.

It turns out that you can't extrapolate the results of base pairs to whole strands of DNA.

After the pairs short program (Saturday), I have adrenaline. I came back like I had just arrived and I'm in competition mode. I've had four clean run-throughs in the last four days.

I love traditional shoes. I have a nice couple of pairs of traditional Oxford-style shoes, a pair of Edward Green shoes, and I aspire to a pair of hand-made George Cleverley shoes. Mark McNairy, all those are amazing.

I'm sure she got 200 to 300 pairs a day, but someone brought mine to her. She took them with her to her farm in Indiana for a three-day weekend. She called me the following Tuesday and said she'd worn them the entire weekend.

In merest prudence men should teach. That science ranks as monstrous things, Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings - E'en Angel's wings! - are fictions.

I like having pairs of characters to play off each other. I love drawing Batman, but he's more fun with Robin. Batman charges ahead, Robin jumps off the walls. It's fun showing that contrast.

I'll bet I have 250 pairs. I can't throw any away because as a kid we got one pair a year. Now I order 20 pairs at a time.

I packed my trumpet, my computer, a few pairs of underwear, a few shirts and that was it,

I own more pairs of Calvin Klein underwear than I can count. At any given time, I probably have 50 to 60 pairs on deck. I travel with an entire suitcase of underwear and t-shirts, and they're all Calvin Klein.

I had a few pairs of Oscar Jacobsen trousers and all of them were a bit Rupert the Bear. Being Welsh I wore a red pair on the last day, and I was going to wear a white shirt, but it had a mark on it, so I wore blue. I knew it didn't go with the green jacket but I didn't care a crap.

In a dense cluster, interactions between the stars will create more binary pairs that can yield more fast-rotating pulsars.

When two plants, constantly different in one or several traits, are crossed, the traits they have in common are transmitted unchanged to the hybrids and their progeny, as numerous experiments have proven; a pair of differing traits, on the other hand, are united in the hybrid to form a new trait, which usually is subject to changes in the hybrids' progeny.

The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself

Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.

Why don't I just give you a pair of my panties to hang around your neck? Then whenever you feel jealous, you can wave them at whoever's pissing you off.

My daughter wanted a new pair of trainers. I told her You're eleven, make your own!

Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.

Women need food, water, and compliments That's right. And an occasional pair of shoes.

If Ive got a clean pair of jeans and a T-shirt, thats usually a good day for me.

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

You know my feelings: Every day is a gift. It's just, does it have to be a pair of socks?

A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

See how God ever like with like doth pair, And still the worthless doth the worthless lead!

Collecting shoes is my biggest hobby. I've got a couple hundred pairs of Nikes and Jordans. I got a lot of hats, too. I like to play basketball, but nothing competition wise.

I do not have 3,000 pairs of shoes, I have 1,060.

The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?' Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.

You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.

I admit I love clothes and I buy clothes. But they sit in my closet. I like a pair of comfy pants, flip flops and a t- shirt. And when we pick a restaurant, my criteria is: Where can I wear this?.

One product that you can never go wrong with is sunglasses because they are easy to misplace. I always get a couple of pairs every year.

My balls feel like a pair of maracas.

Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.

Inauguration Security was tighter than Kirstie Alley in a pair of spandex pants.

The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.

I'm obsessed with shoes. I must have hundreds of pairs...That reminds me- I need to go shopping!

I see a pair of shoes I adore, and it doesn't matter if they have them in my size. I buy them anyway.

My partners... taught me that in order to create wealth, I needed to pair up with people whose strengths compensated for my weaknesses.

I always say to people, the Eighties were so inventive because people wanted to stand out. By the time we got to the Nineties, everyone wanted to fit in. It was all about having the same pair of trainers and the same pair of jeans. That's fatal. Whereas the Eighties you would never be seen in the same pair of jeans that somebody else was wearing.

Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.

If I go out with a jacket and a pair of trousers that my wife doesn't like, you can bet your ass it ain't in my wardrobe the following day. I say that it gets lost in the sky.

Randalf the Wise indeed!I've worn wiser pairs of underpants!

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.

A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems.

Sexual attraction pairs people, but does not match them.

Think of the many different relations of form and content. E.g., the many pairs of trousers and what's in them.

Only love could pick a nested pair of steel Bramah locks.

Despite the fact that I have a good-size pair of breasts... in Lois & Clark, I have the opportunity to show the world they're not my only attribute.

Bacon is like a good pair of Levi's-it never goes out of style.

Axl and I came from completely different backgrounds. Because of that we made an interesting pair trying to figure each other out.

They had seen Zarek take out a pair of Daimons. Great. Just great. He closed his eyes and cursed. This night was starting to rate right up there with abscessed teeth.’ (Talon)

I swear if that's a pair of demon horns digging into my belly and stabbing me right now, Ash, I'm going to beat you after it's born." 'Cause face it, horns on the head didn't come from my side of the family or genetic code.

Why?” Eve leaned forward. “Sincerely, I’ve always wanted to know why anyone buys multiple pairs of shoes at a time.” “If I have to explain it, the joy is lost.