“I'll never wake up in a good mood again.
I'm tired of these stinky boots”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
Source: An American Prayer
“Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin' up and down again!
There's no discharge in the war!”
Boots, Stanza 1 (1903).
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There's no discharge in the war!" by Rudyard Kipling?
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Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
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“If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.”
Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba
Source: Leaves of Grass
“Boot 'em, don't spatter 'em!”
Heinz Guderian (1888–1954) German general
Nicht Kleckern sondern Klotzen!
As quoted in How Great Generals Win (1993) by Bevin Alexander, p. 227; this statement became a stock phrase which Hitler often repeated. It is comparable to the adage "Don't do things by half."
“Gain upon gain, and interest to boot!”
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Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), line 437 (tr. G. M. Cookson)
“He ain't a copper just look at 'is boots!”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Act I
1910s, Pygmalion (1912)
“I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.”
Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer
Source: Sandman Slim
“Everybody's shaking in his boots, so don't be bluffed.”
Kurt Vonnegut book Player Piano
Source: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 22 (p. 219)
