“I feel that
these glass shoes are too fragile
for running through this era.”
Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress
Beautiful Fighters
Lyrics, Secret
Source: From Watch word for style http://www.essence-magazine.co.uk/Interview_March_2017.html, essence-magazine.co.uk, March 2017. <br class="br">Context: As the famous Italian actor Vittorio Gassman said: “You can just have one extravagant piece, more is not classy.”
“I feel that
these glass shoes are too fragile
for running through this era.”
Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress
Beautiful Fighters
Lyrics, Secret
Jeanette Winterson book Lighthousekeeping
Source: Lighthousekeeping (2004)
Context: You say we are not one, you say truly there are two of us. Yes, there were two of us, but we were one. As for myself, I am splintered by great waves. I am coloured glass from a church window long since shattered. I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.
Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer
Source: The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
Mike Lazaridis (1961) Canadian businessman
BlackBerry's Quest: Fend Off the iPhone http://nytimes.com/2008/04/27/technology/27rim.html in The New York Times (27 April 2008)
“My shoe has caught a Pig
I am a Pig Trap”
Spike Hawkins (1943) British writer
Pig poetry http://www.porkopolis.org/lib/poetry/hawkins-s.htm
“I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.”
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author