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  • An untied shoelace can be dangerous,' he said. 'I could have tripped.' She stared at him. A moment dragged by. 'I'm joking,' he said at last. She relaxed. 'Really?' 'Absolutely. I would never have tripped. I'm far too graceful.

    Lasts   Moments   Said  
    Derek Landy (2009). “Playing With Fire (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 2)”, p.19, HarperCollins UK
  • Foursomes have left the first tee there and have never been seen again. They just find their shoelaces and bags.

    Golf   Bags   Firsts  
  • What's with the cute shoelace on your head?" "What this?" He flicked the end of the cord with his finger. "Yeah. Rambo called, he wants his bandana back.

    Cute   Rambo   Want  
    Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.46, Penguin
  • I could've died because you had to tie your shoelace?

    Ties   Shoelaces   Died  
  • Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot.

    "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Interview with Pauline T. Newton, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.
  • My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph.D.! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits.

    Mom   Mother   Teaching  
  • When I was about 14 or 15, and running in a pretty muddy cross country race, one of my shoes stuck in the mud and came off. Boy, was I wild. To think that I had trained hard for this race and didn't do up my shoelace tightly enough! I really got aggressive with myself, and I found myself starting to pass a lot of runners. As it turned out, I improved something like twenty places in that one race. But I never did get my shoe back.

    Country   Running   Boys  
  • I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

    Memories   School   Ties  
    Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.28, Penguin
  • Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that

    Writing   Exercise   Ties  
  • Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.

    Reading   Thinking   Two  
    Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.14, Harper Collins
  • A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

    Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.230, Open Road Media
  • I remember little things that break my heart. We were coming out of Michael's house one day, and he noticed my shoelaces were undone. He bent down and tied them. I almost cried. To me, it was such a gesture of love.

    Love   Dream   Heart  
  • It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.

    Men   Tragedy   His Love  
  • What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.' And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong.

    Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.22, HarperCollins UK
  • -You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?

    Ties   Mad   Looks  
  • Someone stole my shoelaces once from my shoes. I still wear them and never put laces in them - they're like my trademark shoes now!

    Shoes   Lace   Trademarks  
  • Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!"

    "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.
  • I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

    Trying   Gears   Lines  
    Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.260, Penguin
  • I watch her do the simplest things: brushing her hair into a ponytail, feeding the dog, tying Sophie's shoelaces, and I want to tell her what she means to me, but I never actually say the words. After all, to acknowledge Delia as a drug, I'd have to face the fact that one day I might have to go without her and this I can't do.

    Dog   Mean   Hair  
    Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.140, Simon and Schuster
  • Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story.

  • Your favorite colour . . . it's green?" "That's right." Then I think of something to add. "And yours is orange." "Orange?" He seems unconvinced. "Not bright orange. But soft. Like the sunset," I say. "At least, that's what you told me once." "Oh." He closes his eyes briefly, maybe trying to conjure up that sunset, then nods his head. "Thank you." But more words tumble out. "You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.

    Sunset   Sleep   Eye  
  • They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can’t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.

  • We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson’s Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search.

    Baby   Air   Hands  
  • I quit shoelaces a long time ago.

    Twitter post from Jul 13, 2012
  • You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.

    Sleep   Katniss   Tea  
    Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.271, Scholastic Inc.
  • Romance isn't just about roses or killing dragons or sailing a kayak around the world. It's also about chocolate chip cookies and sharing The Grateful Dead and James Taylor with me in the middle of the night, and believing me when I say that you could be bigger than both of them put together, and not making fun of me for straightening out my french fries or pointing my shoelaces in the same direction, and letting me pout when I don't get my own way, and pretending that if I play "Flower Drum Song" one more time you won't throw me and the record out the window

    Song   Fun   Grateful  
  • You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Kids can make fun of you for having the wrong shoelaces: that's just kids. But I don't think I had any trouble making friends.

    Fun   Kids   Thinking  
  • we love what we love and who we love who we love and why we love why we love and find a falling shoelace knotted and strung between the fingers of strangers

    Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2012). “Beautiful Redemption”, p.126, Hachette UK
  • When great individuals move so marvelously along the straight and narrow path, it is unseemly of us to call attention to the fact that one of their shoelaces is untied as they make the journey.

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