Shops Quotes - Page 17

• I just want to make a tray of good tofu. If people want something else, they should go to the restaurants and shops.

  Yasujiro Ozu

  Want Something, People, Tofu

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• Beauty itself soon fades, and when a woman has beauty and nothing else, well, it's like putting all the goods in the shop window, isn't it? And the moment she loses her good looks-poor creature! what is she? Just a mere bit of faded finery to be thrown aside.

  Henry Arthur Jones

  Beautiful, Looks, Window

  Henry Arthur Jones (1915). “The Theatre of Ideas, a Burlesque Allegory, and Three One-act Plays: The Goal, Her Tongue, Grace Mary”

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• An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which company and which product shall be the leader today and which shall lead tomorrow.

  Bruce Barton

  Leadership, Business, Goes On

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• Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on Tuesdays, and the Women's Institute on Wednesdays. It had hosted jumble sales and Jubilee celebrations, wedding receptions and wakes, and it smelled of all of these things: of stale clothes and coffee urns, and the ghosts of home-baked cakes and meat salads; of dust and human bodies; but primarily of aged wood and stone.

  J. K. Rowling

  Coffee, Home, Dust

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• I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.

  Donald Miller

  Coffee, Space, Community

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.172, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don't make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I'm going to be pissed and miserable every time I have to food-shop, because my natural default-setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all about me, about my hungriness and my fatigue and my desire to just get home.

  David Foster Wallace

  Home, Thinking, Giving

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up business and dirty shops. They ought to go.

  Marion Barry

  Dirty, Opening Up, Racism

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• When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in my thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance.

  Nikola Tesla

  Running, Ideas, Imagination

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: And Other Writings”, p.6, Courier Dover Publications

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• It is a good idea to 'shop around' before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence of his mechanic. Don't be shy! After all, you're paying for it.

  Dave Barry

  Doctors, Ideas, Cynical

  Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.9, Rodale

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• No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shop window to display one's talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Past, Men

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• Eskimos are uncivilised because they don't have any shops.

  Jodie Marsh

  Funny, Dumb, Dumb Blonde

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• I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story. An interesting dynamic between people. A theme. A great character back story. A cool occupation. The look of someone's eyes. A burning ambition. Hundreds of thousands of bits of flotsam and jetsam that we stick in the back of our minds like the shelves full of buttons and ribbons and fabrics and threads and beads in a costumer's shop.

  Alexandra Sokoloff

  Ambition, Character, Eye

  "Collecting Character". www.screenwritingtricks.com. March 27, 2009.

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• For every two degrees the temperature goes up, check-ins at ice cream shops go up by 2%.

  Andrew Hogue

  Ice Cream, Two, Degrees

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• Since the Kingstonfirst BID started in January 2005, retailers have enjoyed three years of impressive sales growth, which has taken many of us to the top of our peer group. The BID period has also seen Kingston rise to 12th place according to Experian, and 13th place according to the Javelin Venuescore, in their respective retail super leagues of UK town and city centres. I am confident the platform that our BID provides will allow us to continue to maintain Kingston as the place that people love to shop and visit.

  David Barford

  Taken, Years, Cities

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• I go to see the clothes [I designed] in the shops, and of course they're not perfect, and I see only the imperfections. But it doesn't mean it's a failure-you just think, I wish it could be better than this. Sometimes I cannot achieve what I really want to do in just one collection, so in the following collection I do it again. There are certain things I've been working on for three years.

  Junya Watanabe

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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• If you're going to be a writer, you're going to write because you have to. It's not like other arts and not nearly as rewarding because it's a lot lonelier, and most of the time it's just you alone in a dark room or a coffee shop. But a lot of writers have to write because they're writing for themselves, so whether or not someone sees your work or not- they're still writing because they absolutely have to.

  Ian Sansom

  Art, Coffee, Writing

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• An outdated view still prevails that a low-carbon lifestyle requires immense personal suffering and sacrifice. In my view, nothing could be further from the truth. All the evidence shows that people who do not drive, do not fly on planes, do shop locally, do grow their own food, and do get to know other members of their community have a much higher quality of life than their compatriots who still persist in making the ultimate sacrifice of wasting their lives commuting to work in cars.

  Mark Lynas

  Sacrifice, Views, People

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• Tell ya mama to stop flirtin' boy, I'm not a good step-pop.
  I interrupt your little session...and wreck shop.

  Bumpy Knuckles

  Rap, Boys, Hip Hop

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• Birds, birds, birds, I'm a Pet Shop Boy

  Killa Kyleon

  Boys, Hip Hop, Bird

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• There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church; the third is by that of the social revolution.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Wine, Two, Church

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• Despite romantic fantasies about caring candidates who learn of America in donut shops, most politicians rely on media to teach them what concerns the average person.

  Dick Morris

  Caring, Media, Average

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.117, St. Martin's Press

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• Americans are gluttons. We shop with forklifts. We have a holiday where we stuff food into other food. Our strippers wrestle in Jell-O, where other countries have to use mud.

  Bill Maher

  Thanksgiving, Country, Holiday

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• Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

  Agatha Christie

  Ideas, Plot, Hats

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• Best Buy. I heard recently they are downsizing and I got sad! I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood why people would shop there. I always thought Best Buy had a better selection and cheaper prices.

  Kerry King

  Cities, People, Remember

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• I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth.

  Danielle Steel

  Children, Wind, Pieces

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