Shops Quotes - Page 30

• An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Mad, Black

  Charles Dickens (2003). “Oliver Twist”, p.53, Collector's Library

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• As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Past, Men

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.25

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• The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.

  Anita Roddick

  Running, Agency, Support

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• The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.

  Anita Roddick

  America, Giving, Foundation

  "Family fortunes" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2008.

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• There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like to shop but are very time pressured. And so shopping online can save people time.

  Jeff Bezos

  Shopping, People, Online

  "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. November 7, 2002.

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• Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Light, Practice, Diversity

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.239, Stanford University Press

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• I see a schoolboy when I think of him,
  With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Thinking, Noses

  'Ego Dominus Tuus' (referring to Keats)

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• Sign outside a country shop: We buy junk and sell antiques.

  Dave Barry

  God, Country, Stupidity

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• The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.

  Charles Dickens

  Dog, Wings, Drunk

  Charles Dickens (1868). “The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces”, p.128

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• Most of my actor friends dont believe its possible to let go of it and be happy, and for a while that was true for me. For the first two years I ached, every day. And I had such bad dreams. But then I made the decision to start working on my little shop and all that went away.

  Genie Francis

  Letting Go, Dream, Believe

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• The Christos-image
  is most difficult to disentangle
  from its art-craft junk-shop
  paint-and-plaster medieval jumble
  of pain-worship and death-symbol.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Jesus, Art, Pain

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

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• Folks call me Ellis. I run an auto shop with a couple of my buddies. We're also in a band. I play bass.

  Ellis

  Running, Couple, Play

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• Next-door a baker's apprentice with his wife, an employee in a printing-shop, she has inflammation of the ovaries. Wonder what those two get out of life? Well, first of all, they get each other, then last Sunday a vaudeville and a film, then this or that club meeting and a visit to his parents. Nothing else? Well now, don't drop dead, sir. Add to that nice weather, bad weather, country picnics, standing in front of the stove, eating breakfast and so on. And what more do you get, you, captain, general, jockey, whoever you are? Don't fool yourself.

  Alfred Doblin

  Life, Country, Nice

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• Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe.

  Henry Anatole Grunwald

  Morning, Fear, Home

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• I do not really shop. Most of my clothes I make. I dress simply.

  China Machado

  Clothes, Dresses

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• It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world.

  Neil Tennant

  Boys, Our World, Pet

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• The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.

  Mother Jones

  Children, Effort, Insane

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• I don't leave my neighborhood. I don't go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block... so I don't do much driving... Some people would say they never see me because I don't go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.

  Ben Folds

  Block, Coffee, Nashville

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• I took care of my wheel as one would look after a Rolls Royce. If it needed repairs I always brought it to the same shop on Myrtle Avenue run by a negro named Ed Perry. He handled the bike with kid gloves, you might say. He would always see to it that neither front nor back wheel wobbled. Often he would do a job for me without pay, because, as he put it, he never saw a man so in love with his bike as I was.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Jobs, Love You

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• Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.

  George Chapman

  Wise, Business, Light

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.452

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• I love shopping, but I can find something to buy wherever I go! London is great for shopping, as is Los Angeles and New York - but I can find a good shop in the middle of nowhere!

  Ashley Tisdale

  New York, Shopping, Middle Of Nowhere

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I've always thought I've got to work and I want to work. When I was younger I had friends who on a Saturday would be going out to the shops but I was working from 8.30am to 6.30pm. I w

  Amy Childs

  Would Be, Going Out, Want

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• A very young girl, myself, and my 70-year-old mother all look quite different wearing some of the same clothes from my shop. The whole secret is to know how to do it and some people never will, just like some can't make light pastry: they are lacking in some sort of grace.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Girl, Mother, Light

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes.

  Caroline Dhavernas

  Cute, Clothes, Toys

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• One of the great thing about New York is the neighborhood - you go for your walk in the morning and you know your dry cleaning lady, you know the guy in your coffee shop - that's your neighborhood and I love that.

  Piper Perabo

  Morning, New York, Coffee

  "Piper Perabo’s Culinary Affairs". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 16, 2012.

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