Grocery Stores Quotes - Page 8

• She sighed. Loudly. "Physical appearance is not what is important." Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn't bothered to put on a presentable shirt or fix her hair because she's only running into the grocery store to get a quart of milk for her grandmother, and who does she see tending the 7-ITEMS-OR-LESS cash register but the guy of her dreams, except she can't even say hi—much less try to develop a meaningful relationship—since she looks like the poster child for the terminally geeky.

  Vivian Vande Velde

  Girl, Meaningful, Running

  Vivian Vande Velde (2002). “Heir Apparent”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• On stage, there are hundreds of people watching you. It's so much energy directed at you. I pick up energy really easily. Even if I go to the grocery store and no one is paying attention to me, I can pick up other people's moods and it's really intense.

  Rooney Mara

  People, Energy, Attention

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The real gladiators of the world are so humble in their origins and unremarkable in appearance that when we stand next to them in a grocery-store line, we never guess how brightly their souls can burn in the dark.

  James Lee Burke

  Real, Humble, Dark

  James Lee Burke (2009). “Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.554, Simon and Schuster

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