"I've always taken shoes seriously. In grade school, I was the only kid who didn't play soccer. I'd sit on the grass, watch, and say, 'Sorry, but there's no way I'm putting on cleats.'"

--Andrea Starr, style maven (quoted in The Improper Bostonian)

"Shoes are architecture, art and a mirror of one's spirit -- all at once."

--Bespoke shoe designer Chihiro Yamaguchi

"Everyone thought I was going to fall down on my shoes and I kept saying, 'Well if I do I'll just get up!"

--Daphne Guinness

"Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football."

--John Galliano defines style to Vogue UK.

"I don't want it, and it's too valuable to give away. I'd rather buy shoes."

--The director Vincent Gallo explains why he is selling a portrait of himself by Julian Schnabel on eBay.

"I like leather. I like stylish jeans. I love those new sneakers, Skechers, that give a lift inside."

--Larry King

"That was insane, it's like my greatest accomplishment."

--Blake Lively explains how it feels to have a pair of Christian Louboutins named after her.

"The mayor owns only two pairs of work shoes. One day he'll wear one, the next the other ? and when they get worn down, he has them resoled."

--Mayor Bloomberg's spokesman, Stu Loeser, talks to The Post about his boss's footwear frugality.

"Put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you."

--Photographer Dorothea Lange

"A lady never admits her feet hurt."

--Lorelei Lee (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)

"Everything you see I owe to spaghetti."

--Sophia Loren

"I do love Jayma's shoe closet. She lies in bed in the morning and asks me to open the doors. She debates for a while, and I inevitably pull down more pairs than she could wear in a day, or even a week."

-- Scott Campbell, on Jayma Cardoso, the Brazilian-born nightclub impresario

"Shoe shopping is therapy."

--Fortune inside Dove chocolate wrapper

"Every morning, everybody everywhere has to put on some protective material on their feet, but human beings have turned function into art. It's a great subject that affects all people, regardless of what they actually think of shoes."

--Richard Thomas, composer and writer of the play 'Shoes'

"Find shoes that match your hair color so they don't clash when you're high kicking."

--Rupert Sanderson, on choosing the best dancing shoes

"These aren't shoes, they're Louboutins. These are incendiary devices."

--Stephanie (My Boys)

"I'm just going to get out of this rut with some red shoes."

--PJ (My Boys)

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

--Coco Chanel

"And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed."

--Jeremy Irons

"Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvelous or you're boring, regardless of your age."

--Steven Morrissey

"I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator."

--Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones?)

"Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes."

--Sophie Bush

"I would never not wear an amazing shoe because it wasn't comfortable. Even if my foot was going numb, I wouldn't care. I'd still want to wear it."

--Tinsley Mortimer

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."

--Miss Piggy

"I sliced open my foot two days ago and I was supposed to get a bandage, but I didn't, and I thought I'd be okay in these heels, because I can walk in any heels, but I'm not."

--Daphne Guinness