Shops Quotes - Page 18

• Incredibly, while these 18 to 20 year-olds cannot legally buy a beer, cannot purchase a bottle of wine and cannot order a drink in a bar, right now they can walk into any gun shop, any pawn shop, any gun show, anywhere in America and buy a handgun.

  Al Gore

  Wine, Beer, Gun

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• Could an explosion in a printing shop produce a dictionary?

  Russell M. Nelson

  Printing, Explosions, Produce

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• When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look like a quartered cow hanging in a butcher shop as well as disturbingly appealing.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Sex, Clothes, Blue

  Isabella Rossellini (1997). “Some of Me”, Random House Incorporated

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• American sex shops are the most bizarre. They sell these inflatable dolls, but they also sell just the head -- supposedly for people to drive along the highway with.

  Billy Connolly

  Sex, People, Dolls

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• Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured

  Toni Morrison

  Girl, Children, Blue

  Toni Morrison (2017). “Race: Vintage Minis”, p.28, Random House

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• Simple and more frequent dates allow both men and women to ‘shop around’ in a way that allows extensive evaluation of the prospects. The old-fashioned date was a wonderful way to get acquainted with a member of the opposite sex. It encouraged conversation. It allowed you to see how you treat others and how you are treated in a one-on-one situation. It gave opportunities to learn how to initiate and sustain a mature relationship. None of that happens in hanging out

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Sex, Men, Opportunity

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• I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.

  Zola Budd

  Home, Tea Drinking, Atmosphere

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• I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Ambition, Lakes

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets get fresh, organic produce to the people who can't afford to shop at health-food stores.

  Van Jones

  People, Community, Climate

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boring or impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen to, especially if the shop is not one's own.

  W. H. Auden

  Silly, Interesting, Listening

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• I have so many runner-up cups that I am thinking of starting my own tea shop.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Thinking, Tea, Cups

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• If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best wine in town, and pray let not this highest point of sacred friendship be performed slightly, but go about it with all due deliberation and care, as holy priests to sacrifice, or as discreet thieves to the wary performance of burglary and shop-lifting. Let your well-discerning palate (the best judge about you) travel from cellar to cellar and then from piece to piece till it has lighted on wine fit for its noble choice and my approbation.

  John Wilmot

  Grateful, Heart, Wine

  Letter to the diplomat Henry Savile, 1674.

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• Well, I woke up one morning around Christmas, went as far as the shops, and when I got to the corner I felt this violent pain in me left leg. I mentioned it to my daughter and she took me instantly to the hospital. It turned out it was vasculitis. In other words, you can have your leg off.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Daughter, Morning, Pain

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• Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction on the spot, and if not fully satisfied, return the product to the shop or replace it with a new and improved one! You don't, after all, stick to your car, or computer, or iPod, when better ones appear.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Ipods, Car, Expectations

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• I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Girl, Knows, Convinced

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• The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life, the way to find the essence of every place, every day: in the markets, small chapels, out-of-the-way parks, craft shops. Curiosity about the extraordinary in the ordinary moves the heart of the traveler intent on seeing behind the veil of tourism.

  Phil Cousineau

  Moving, Heart, Essence

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• Mercy Corps' partnership with The Hunger Site translates into lifesaving assistance for people in tremendous need around the world. When you visit, click, and shop at this unique site, you're making the future a little brighter for families who need food in the world's poorest places.

  Dan O'Neill

  Unique, People, Needs

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• I rationalize shop. I buy a dress because I need change for gum.

  Rita Rudner

  Dresses, Needs, Gum

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• And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Home, Garden, Mexican

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• I love to find a great vintage secondhand shop.

  Bridget Hall

  Vintage

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• I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

  Colin Hay

  Mother, Father, Guitar

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• It is still my dream to own a little flower shop.

  Kirsty Gallacher

  Dream, Flower, Littles

  "Kirsty Gallacher: my Saturday job" by Mark King, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2012.

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• I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.

  Jenifer Lewis

  Memories, Remember, Barbers

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I saw with open eyes, Singing birds sweet, Sold in the shops, For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of, Stupidity Street.

  Ralph Hodgson

  Sweet, Eye, People

  Ralph Hodgson (2004). “The Last Blackbird and Other Poems by Ralph Hodgson”

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• I love going to coffee shops and just sitting and listening.

  Julie Roberts

  Coffee, Listening, Sitting

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