Shops Quotes - Page 20

• "Would you tax God?" asks a defender of church tax exemption. Well, if there were a God he should be able to pay his own way and support his own business. If not, then he should do like other business men and close up shop.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Men, Support, Church

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• They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops, that there's a temptation to miss your own life in pursuing the lives of your betters. It makes you wise in some ways, but it can make you a blindfolded fool in others.

  Robertson Davies

  Wise, Knowledge, Missing

  Robertson Davies (1976). “World of wonders”, Penguin Books, 1977

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• One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Pet, Ends

  "The Chicago Daily Herald" Newspaper, March 1, 1990.

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• The thing to do,' I said as we gained the lane that leads to Beech Green and Fairacre, 'is to get absolutely everything in the summer and lock it in a cupboard. Then order every scrap of food from a shop the week before Christmas and sit back and enjoy watching everyone else go mad. I've been meaning to do it for years.

  Miss Read

  Summer, Order, Years

  Miss Read (2001). “Village School”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I learned basic cookery from my mom, taught myself cake techniques and then got fed up with my own cakes not looking as good as the ones in the shops.

  Jane Asher

  Mom, Cake, Taught

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• I call my therapist every other day. It's not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, name it, let it go.

  Fergie

  Names, Negativity, Let It Go

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• I love the romance of Paris. I love Angelina [tearoom and pastry shop]. I always get a Mont-blanc [pastry] there.

  Jason Wu

  Paris, Romance, Pastries

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• The most important consideration I have is I want my legislative shop to have a functional office suite that is conducive to getting their work accomplished.

  Steve Womack

  Office, Important, Want

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• We are a nation of shop keepers.

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  Keepers, Nations

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.463, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit.

  Robert Fortune

  Garden, House, Littles

  Robert Fortune (1863). “Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China”, p.11

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• This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your friends start to die, you can’t get fresh fruit in the shops.

  Geoff Ryman

  Hurt, Book, Giving

  Geoff Ryman (2011). “Paradise Tales”, p.240, Small Beer Press

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• Everything a gay man does makes a political statement. Everything matters: where you bank, where you shop, where you eat. When you hold your lover’s hand in public

  Josh Lanyon

  Gay, Men, Hands

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• I worked at a local country club that I never belonged to. I did random tasks in the pro shop and supposed to be in charge of the register, but that didn't go so well. They quickly realized I was better with people, not computers.

  Shelley Hennig

  Country, People, Tasks

  "When I Was 17: Shelley Hennig". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. April 19, 2012.

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• Whatever I'm working on, I get excited. It does not matter whether I have done the same piece many times. I still can't wait to get out to the shop in the morning.

  Sam Maloof

  Morning, Waiting, Doe

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• Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature. Everywhere you find shops or hotels with an ambience that makes you feel like you are in a refrigerator.

  Andree Putman

  Design, Like You, Refrigerators

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• A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.

  Tristram Stuart

  Country, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!

  Billy Graham

  Prayer, Office, Athletic

  Billy Graham (1995). “Secret of happiness, The”

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• The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.

  Margaret Carlson

  Garden, Victory, Generations

  Margaret Carlson (2003). “Anyone Can Grow Up: How George Bush and I Made it to the White House”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• In London, almost all Jewish shops in the Whitechapel district were displaying placards denying entry to German salesmen and affirming their anti-Nazi boycott. Teenagers patrolled the streets distributing handbills asking shoppers to boycott German goods.

  Edwin Black

  Teenager, Asking, London

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• And it was there that I saw the most appealing creature in the whole shop. He had a slight chink out of one foot and his 'topknot' was missing (a 'topknot' is on the top of a dragon's head and looks a bit like a shark's fin) but I bought him in an instant.

  Chris d'Lacey

  Dragons, Sharks, Feet

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• I’m not much of a fly tier. I can do it—my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying'—and I tie some cool flies that I can’t buy in a fly shop, but other than that, I would no more sit down and tie a dozen hopper patterns than I would do something absolutely insane, like build a rod.

  Jack Ohman

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Getting straight with your money is as complicated as a trip to the grocery store:
  You need a comparison shop, add and subtract, stick with a plan, and ask questions- nothing more.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Add, Needs, Sticks

  Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi (2006). “All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I collect antiques, so there are a lot of old rocking chairs... My friends call my home the vortex because nobody wants to leave.

  Monica Potter

  Flower, Home, Want

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• I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.

  Erin Wasson

  Clothes, Obscurity, Antiques

  "Erin Wasson on Her Hair, Antique Shopping, and Cooking". Interview with Leah Melby Clinton, www.elle.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.

  Bjork

  Hunting, Hands, Getting High

  "I didn't like being a celebrity. It's a service job. Like washing toilets" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2007.

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