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Socks Quotes

We’ve collected the best Socks Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Glennon Doyle Melton, Mo Rocca, Goldie Hawn, Camilla Belle, Jessica Parker Kennedy. Use them as an inspiration.

1
The truth is that cleaning up socks and trying to get someone to really listen to you is marriage. It’s less sweep you off your feet and more sweep the kitchen four times a day. Like everything good in life, it’s 98% back-breaking work and 2% moments that make the work worthwhile.
2
Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.
3
My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small… my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don’t want people to see how thin they are.
4
Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
Camilla Belle
5
I love ‘The Orphanage‘ because the concept is so cool and the story is told in such an interesting way. It’s a movie that will scare your socks off but make you cry at the end. It’s one of the most tragic movies I’ve ever watched and is truly heartbreaking and scary at the same time.
Jessica Parker Kennedy
6
For my first Hollywood film, I really didn’t want to be doing a film where I’m looking like a stooge with fake snakes that look like socks.
Nathan Phillips
7
I wear high water pants, always, so you can see my socks – I always wear white socks.
8
I know there are five stages of grief, but my parents raised me to pull up my socks when times get tough.
9
As an actor you pull your socks up and look for the next job.
10
After I sign my big contract, I’m gonna make my brothers buy me dinner. They need to buy me something for a change. I think I’m gonna get me a house. That’s gonna be first. Probably get some new socks. Need some socks.
11
Gene Kelly has meant so much to me through the years. I used to dance in my living room in socks and a tee-shirt, no idea what I was doing, but wanting to dance like Gene.
12
Honey, have you ever seen a man knitting socks?
Ezer Weizman
13
Anormal day looks like, you know, shower, put on the same jeans, the same tattered Gucci loafers I got at the thrift store, white socks, and my t-shirt and my very beat-up Helmut Lang blazer. I’m in the exact same outfit every day.
14
My signature look is an eighties baby doll dress, combat boots with colorful socks sticking out, and then mounds of jewelry. I love silver and turquoise. I go to Montana every winter, so I hunt around for cool pieces there.
15
I believe that if you don’t want to do anything, then sit there and don’t do it, but don’t expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.
16
On the first day I got my wheelchair, I was also given all my clothes for the next day, a little pile on the chair. I was so proud of myself for getting it all on – the socks and everything. Dressing is a struggle, and it can take up to an hour and a half.
17
When I filmed ‘Live And Let Die’ with Jane Seymour, I kept my socks on in bed, as it was such a cold set.
18
Guys will take one pair of jeans, five T-shirts and three pair of socks and that’ll get you by for 10 weeks.
19
Socks must be at least an 18-percent synthetic blend to insure they don’t droop, because droopy socks that show calf are worse than short socks that do the same.
20
I come up with the silliest excuses when it’s time to work out. I’ll be like, ‘Oh no! Now I have to go and find some socks.’
21
Braveness, for me, is running into my basement with no socks on. There are huge spiders down there!
22
My song ‘Play It Again’ is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they’re so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.
23
I don’t clean, I don’t make the bed. I spend my salary. I worry a lot. I just don’t worry about socks on the floor.
24
I like wearing things that are a bit off but not in a ridiculous ‘I’m wearing a huge hatkind of way. More a socks with sandals way.
25
I watched Mark Rylance in the Broadway revival of ‘La Bete,’ and it knocked my socks off. The complete commitment, passion, and unbridled enjoyment in every moment of what he was doing was overwhelming.
David Alan Basche
26
I’m a fan of Stance socks.
27
It’s true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write ‘And they lived happily ever afterbefore our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper.
28
I live in New York full time. I can’t live in L.A., because I fear people think I’m a vagrant there. If you show up in L.A. with your shirt inside out or socks mismatched, people start putting change in your cup.
29
I have no superstitions. I don’t have to have a Sunday outfit. I don’t have socks or underwear I have to wear.
30
I’m not opposed – we manufacture a lot of socks in North Carolina – I just choose not to wear them. It’s a Southern thing. It’s a cultural thing.
31
I always work hard on and off the pitch for the Saturday‘s game, and it’s all about performing on a Saturday; that’s why I work my socks off during the week.
32
When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.
33
Going from toting a machine gun in Afghanistan… to using a bed pan, and I can’t even put my own socks on – that was hard to kind of suck it up.
34
Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the rolled-down stockings. They sort of referenced that in ‘Cabaret,’ when Liza Minnelli was singing ‘Mein Herr,’ and I love the way she looks in that scene.
35
My family didn’t have very much money, so ballet wasn’t even on my radar; I just found it randomly when I was 13 at a Boys & Girls Club. We were practicing in a basketball court in gym clothes with some old socks on. Even though it terrified me at first, I found that I really liked it.
36
I can’t wait to get home and wash all those socks.
37
I don’t really believe there is such a thing as bad fashion – it is all self-expression, which used to get me into trouble when I was a little girl because I think I started wearing heels when I was about ten, and I always refused to wear matching socks.
38
I make napkins talk in restaurants, socks talk on car journeys. There is an awful lot of puppetry going on in the house.
39
When I was in grade school in L.A., I really loved Cyndi Lauper. I did everything I could to look like her. I had wild outfits and always wore different coloured socks. I wore loads of ribbons in my hair and let them fall in my eyes.
40
I did steal socks, but I got caught… don’t shoplift, anyone – don’t do it! You’re just gonna get caught.
41
Even though I was sent to private school, it was purely because mum and dad wanted the best for me, and they worked their socks off in order to be able to give me that.
42
I never wear matching socks. It’s kind of a thing that I have!
Rachele Brooke Smith
43
I always liked performing in front of my parents’ friends. My dad bought me a karaoke machine, and I would put on a Michael Jackson song like ‘Thriller,’ and I would come out with, like, a hat and a jacket, and, like, moonwalk in my socks, so I was always performing.
Nolan Sotillo
44
Different people’s houses smell like different weird things. God forbid someone should come and nail down what my house smells like. It’d probably be a litter box… sweaty socks… and burnt bacon. That probably is what it smells like.
45
You’re not going to find a man whose socks don’t get dirty or who doesn’t snore.
46
I started stuffing wads of cash into my socks and underwear and quietly passed by the T.S.A. agents with a grin on my face and a sigh of relief.
47
The idea of having to match a pair of socks to your tie or to your pants just doesn’t make any sense to me… With boots, you don’t have to worry about it. Nobody sees your socks.
48
Socks and sandals together are absolutely fine, as long as your flares are wide enough to cover your feet.
49
It’s not very glamorous. People certainly wouldn’t think so if they saw me sitting in my woolly socks at the kitchen table. Many times I sit at the typewriter and think, ‘Why am I doing this?’
Penny Jordan
50
It took me three years to learn to dress in the American way, especially in winter. That was just like me. I barely wear socks even now.
51
I change my socks often, because I had bad bouts of athlete‘s foot fungus infections as a kid. I may be able to change socks less frequently and not get the fungus. But, I’d rather not run the test to determine just how infrequently I could change socks. I don’t feel superstitious about it.
52
If you noticed, I wear high-water pants and white socks, which is inspired by the mod ’60s, like the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix, what have you. That style of dress during that time is really, really dope to me.
53
After my first day of competition I put on compression socks. They help me recover for the next day.
54
Bad Boys II has knocked everyone‘s socks off.
55
Go to American Apparel; they have all of the colors of socks.
56
Bass Weejuns are the Cordovan black or brown penny loafers originally called Norwegian Loafers, hence their name. Worn without socks in the spring and summer, they must be kept to a high-gloss polish and should become burnished with wax over time until they have a fine patina.
57
My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I’m in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet. I didn’t know anything about it.
58
I only wear red socks in the kitchen. They bring me luck.
59
When I was little, whenever I got out of the shower, I never wanted to touch the floor because once you touch the floor, your feet are dirty again. So in the shower, I used to put my socks on already without drying them off.
60
We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.
61
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can’t find any clean socks.
Jean Kerr
62
I don’t feel like I’m the type of performer who’s going to knock your socks off. I’m trying to get over my nerves.
63
I have this image in my head of me in the house I grew up in, and hearing this incredible music on the television show, going over to it, and there’s Jon Hendricks, Dave Lambert, and Annie Ross. It knocked me out of my socks, and I’m still in flight.
64
Shakhtar specifically are proud when traditional clubs from Europe come knocking, and I knew it would be quite hard to convince them to let me join City. Listen, I am absolutely thankful for the opportunity they gave me, but I also think I worked my socks off for that club, and it was time to look after my career.
65
If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun waysjumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket – they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
66
I love tube socks!
67
There’s something wonderful about taking a tag off a pair of socks, off a shirt, off a jacket. I really think that it has to do with my wanting to give myself all the perks that there are. It’s part of my psychosis.
68
I got given a pair of Christmas socks with penguins on. They know you’re obviously not going to wear them. I think they do it just to annoy you, to be honest.
69
I’ve been super-fresh since elementary school. I’d lay out all my clothes, my Jordans right there, I know what cologne I’m gonna wear, my boxers match my socks.
70
I’d love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, ‘How do you make your marriage work?’ I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He’s this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor.
71
Throughout my childhood, when I raised my blanket in the morning, I saw a black, sparkling powder float off it. My socks were always black with coal dirt when I took off my shoes at night.
72
Our neighbors who have fallen on hard times can use basic sanitary items, such as soap, socks and undergarments; when we go shopping for ourselves, how about adding an extra item for someone in need?
73
The Kaws IV is terrible. That’s a bad hoop shoe. That suede rubs against your feet. I had to triple my socks. The leather on the inside is a no-go.
74
Elon Musk wins you over with his elegant mastery of engineering, be it for the rocket or the car. But what blew my socks off was when our conversation veered way off topic. We started musing about whether it was possible we all lived in the matrix, and Musk still had deep knowledge.
75
My dad was a steelworker but I had the opportunity to become a player. A very average player but a player all the same. But I worked my socks off to make something of myself.
76
It’s great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever.
77
May 8th 1943. Deluge. The rain not only fell mainly on the plain in Spain; it also fell mainly on the back of the bloody neck, dripping down the spine into the socks where it came out of the lace-holes in the boots.
78
I try not to match too much. You know, if there’s a blue coat and a blue shirt and a blue tie, I try to stay away from that. I’d rather have a blue coat and a yellow shirt and a pink tie. I don’t like to look too matching. You know those mismatched socks kids wear? That’s my idea of a good suit.
79
As a kid in the eighties, I didn’t need much disposable income. I went to Catholic school – white shirt, plaid skirt – so fashion choices were limited. But youth finds a way. For me and my schoolmates, neon argyle socks were a crucial barometer of coolness. Hair ribbons, too, and they didn’t come cheap.
80
I feel like dress socks differentiate you in a different way – especially men in suits who just have the traditional business suit. The dress sock is the way to change it up in your mind and I like wearing my pants up higher so you see them.
81
I met my husband through a mutual friend. He invited me over for dinner and cooked this meal that knocked my socks off – and maybe knocked off a few other pieces of clothing off as well.
Eden Riegel
82
The coolest Christmas present I’ve ever received is probably socks. My grandma always gets me socks – every year – and that’s something that I’ve probably never bought for myself. If Christmas wasn’t around and my grandma didn’t get me socks, I wouldn’t own any, probably.
83
I like big woolly socks.
84
Literally, my job is I make socks. That’s all I do.
85
Seersucker and khaki suits are the key to looking put-together in the summer. I also wear shorts year-round. And I would never say never, but I don’t wear sandals. With shorts, it’s wing tips and tennis socks.
86
I got my own merch company. I sell shirts, hats, hoodie, socks.
87
I’m not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.
88
I have total admiration for the Renault guys in the garage that are working their socks off, week in, week out.
89
Sometimes I have a nervous breakdown over my suitcase – over socks – because your brain just goes, ‘I just can’t pack again. I can’t.’ You’re looking at your suitcase going, ‘I’m in five countries in two weeks, and it’s four different seasons.’ That’s when my brain melts.
90
I think white socks are best with dope kicks, gives a nice clean look to match. Printed socks are okay but sometimes too much.
91
Make sure that when you’re going out, you wear socks, because I’ve been seeing some people coming out with no socks and that. You know, your toes looking like Cheetos. We don’t need all of that.
92
I never wear white or black socks.
93
My friends always laugh because I’m the kind of person who bought the Brooks Brothers school skirt, even though it’s not my school’s uniform skirt, but just because I liked it. I’m a knee-high socks kind of person.
94
Fresh sneakers are important on a man. It’s like a new pair of boxers or a new pair of socks.
95
Work… family – I’m doing it all. But here’s the secret I share with so many other nanny- and housekeeper-less mothers I see working the same balance: my house is trashed. It is strewn with socks and tutus.
96
In my hand luggage I always have my camera, iPod, make-up bag, tooth brush, cleansing products, clean underwear, socks and a change of clothes in case anything goes missing at the other end – and of course my passport.
Lisa Snowdon
97
I don’t do any exercises when flying but use compression socks and spend as much time as possible lying down. I try not to eat much – I’m not a fan of airplane food; everything is just so weird.
98
I don’t think people need to know what colour socks I’m wearing today; I don’t think people need to know what shower gel I’m using. There’s too much information in the world, and there’s no magic or mystery anymore.
99
I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything – from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.
100
I don’t wear socks with loafers!
101
I always steal a pair of socks on every photo shoot I do. It’s my thing.
102
I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.
103
I change so many houses and places where I live; I change them like I change socks. I don’t have this absolute, kind of, how you say, attachment. My brother, if he just has to go to holiday to sleep in different bed, for him it is a disaster. I can sleep under this table or in a five-star hotel; I don’t care.
104
When I first started, you couldn’t mention divorce or death. You couldn’t show smelly socks. You couldn’t show a snake. They took a skunk out of my strip one time.
105
I’m not very materialistic – I don’t have a whole lot of stuff. But I do always like a pair of really weird socks.
Taylor Kinney
106
I’m obsessed with socks. I even wear them to bed!
107
I sleep with my socks on sometimes.
Ashton Irwin
108
The final battle of ‘Eclipse‘ kind of blows the socks off everything we’ve seen earlier in the series, because you finally have wolves interacting with humans and vampires in a way that’s really sophisticated visual effects that we’re doing in it.
Wyck Godfrey
109
When I was 7, I came up with the idea of ‘charm socks.’ My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.
110
Soon we moved to Rome and I got a little bit of a sense I was different because the paparazzi would follow me when I went to buy books or socks. But my mother never behaved like a movie star.
111
If I’m traveling, I’ll pack socks in my bag – really cute furry ones.
112
In most matters regarding apparel, I am a big fan of natural fiberswool, cotton, and so on. Not when it comes to socks. An elastic fiber of some type is necessary.
113
When I first started recording music, we would record in the closet with socks on the mic.
114
I became politicised in my mid teens, at the time of ska and 2 Tone and the Anti-Nazi League, when I’d get dressed up for a night out in my white socks and loafers, and the last thing I’d hear is, ‘Have a good nightbe careful of the police.’
115
I don’t iron my underwear and socks, but I like things to be organised.
116
Getting a pedicure seems to be a standard pre-birth ritual, presumably because it is relaxing and makes you feel pretty even though your little piggies are going to be covered in those awesome no-skid hospital socks which I kept on for three days.
117
With everybody having a Facebook and a Twitter, I feel like regular people consider themselves stars. It’s a live, real-time upload of every time we buy a pair of socks, the most telling sign that we’re losing our politeness. When you know everything about somebody, you can talk to them any way you please.
118
If I had to go back to something, I would go back to the ‘Victory Tour‘ of the Jacksons, because I love me some Michael Jackson. I’d get my one glove, and my high water pants on, and my sparkly socks and black loafers.
119
Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my house. After all the physical activity the summer provided, I craved movement in the cold of winter. I had no skates, so Mom stuffed socks into my brother’s old ones.
120
I was really happy with the 2,000th hit, because before the at-bat, I wanted to make sure my uniform looked good, my socks looked good. I made sure that way, if there’s a highlight, I at least look my best. It was a really good at-bat. I was very happy, because the pitcher was throwing very tough pitches that at-bat.
121
I have gone through some bad times with my own business. At one point, I was working my socks off, driving, delivering, baking. It was hard, hard work. But I worked through it. Running your own bakery is hard. I never came close to bankruptcy, but I had to cut back on staff.
122
I’m kind of a neat freak. My place is really organized. My socks are even organized: colors and sizes.
123
Trent Seven wouldn’t have let me even go to a try-out wearing socks.
124
Yes, sir. I’m a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.
Billy Carter
125
Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we’re wearing – if it’s red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualise myself scoring goals or doing well.
126
I live a quiet daytime life. I walk everywhere. I lie down. I wash socks. I fry an egg.
127
Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything – hats, socks, shirts. It’s the first step in the process.
128
I wear only animal socks. I went to Koreatown and got a hundred packs of panda and money prints.
129
He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.
Joseph P. Kennedy
130
My family on the ground is definitely in my thoughts and in my prayers, and on my socks.
131
Most dancers are less eccentric than driven. It starts young. When other kids are at the playground, we’re in the studio, endlessly drilling jumps and adjusting our socks.
132
Lipsticks are like socks. I put lipstick on before any other makeup. I use MAC’s Chestnut lip liner, and sometimes I mix two or three shades together.
133
Everyone has a few little quirks in their preparation – I just tend to do the same sort of things as I did in previous competitions – but there’s nothing too weird, sticking with lucky knickers or socks! For instance, I’ll see my family the day before a fight but won’t see them on the day.
134
Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn’t know what she was singing about.
135
She didn’t want the typical Hollywood lifestyle of juggling a career and leaving the kids at home with nannies, so she’d take me to buy socks and books and help me with my homework.