Shops Quotes - Page 39

• You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.

  Neil Gaiman

  Beach, Writing, Sky

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• I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it's women who throw their underwear at me when I'm performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet. Maybe I should open a shop.

  Ellie Goulding

  Land, Feet, Males

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

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• I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.

  Ariana Grande

  Money, Stores, Knows

  "Jennette McCurdy and Ariana Grande on New Nick Comedy 'Sam & Cat'". Interview with Casey Lewis, www.teenvogue.com. May 29, 2013.

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• My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.

  Pauline Hanson

  Mother, Running, Children

  "The Brexit factor: Why one in four voters abandoned the major parties". "Background Briefing" with David Lewis, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2016.

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• Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Jobs, Coffee, Stories

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• I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops.

  Bob Hoskins

  Flower, Very Romantic

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• But in another, I think a woman's going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just don't think she's not going to go into a shop because of a bad review she probably didn't even read.

  Marc Jacobs

  Thinking, Coats, Reviews

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• I like to shop, but I don't like to go out to dances.

  Etta James

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• The shops in High Street still have their metal grilles down, blank-eyed and sleeping. My name is scrawled across them all. I'm outside Ajay's newsagent's. I'm on the expensive shutters of the health food store. I'm massive on Handie's furniture shop, King's Chicken Joint and the Barbecue Cafe. I thread the pavement outside the bank and all the way to Mothercare. I've possessed the road and am a glistening circle at the roundabout.

  Jenny Downham

  Kings, Sleep, Circles

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• Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?

  Steven Wright

  Chess, Pawns, Pawn Shops

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• It looks as though your shop is doing well," Luka said gazing around, "Could you help me find a gift for a lady friend of mine?" My heart plunged to my grenn satin slippers, and I had to stare down at Azarte for a minute, petting him hard. Naturally Luka had a "lady friend." She was probably nobly born: the daughter of a count or a duke. I imagined her having thick dark hair and clear skin, and was bitterly jealous. "Of course," I stammered after a time. "What would she like? A gown? A sash?" If she came in for a fitting, I decided to "accidentlly" poke her with every pin.

  Jessica Day George

  Daughter, Jealous, Heart

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• Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And if you do speak, ask for explanations.

  Rumi

  Trying, Ears, Speak

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• When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Business, Men, Religion

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1427, Barbour Publishing

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• Finally, in October 1945, a man with swampy eyes, feathers of hair, and a clean-shaven face walked into the shop. He approached the counter. "Is there someone here by the name of Leisel Meminger?" "Yes, she's in the back," said Alex. He was hopeful, but he wanted to be sure. "May I ask who is calling on her?" Leisel came out. They hugged and cried and fell to the floor.

  Markus Zusak

  Eye, Men, Hair

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• Fablehaven's awesome!!so is the candy shop war!

  Brandon Mull

  War, Candy

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• Darius didn't have any trouble finding the Street Cats building. It was a cozy-looking square brick building with big front windows crowded with cat stuff. I made a mental note to pick up a little something for Nala from their gift shop. My cat was grumpy enough without her thinking that I'd been cheating on her (translation: I would smell like a zillion other cats) and hadn't even brought her a present.

  P. C. Cast

  Cheating, Cat, Thinking

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Untamed: A House of Night Novel”, p.145, Macmillan

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• You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house - , and you almost stepped out, pensive, to meet me. Streets that I chanced upon, - you had just walked down them and vanished. And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors were still dizzy with your presence and, startled, gave back my too-sudden image. Who knows? Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, separate, in the evening.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Country, Garden, Mirrors

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “You Who Never Arrived”

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• Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful purpose. They regard it as a sacred duty to encourage the country’s most revolting spectacle: the annual feeding frenzy in which shoppers queue all night, then stampede into the shops, elbow, trample and sometimes fight to be the first to carry off some designer junk which will go into landfill before the sales next year. The madder the orgy, the greater the triumph of economic management.

  George Monbiot

  Country, Fighting, Night

  "After this 60-year feeding frenzy, Earth itself has become disposable" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2010.

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• People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.

  Kathy Lette

  Money, People, Knows

  Kathy Lette (2012). “Nip 'N' Tuck”, p.62, Random House

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• Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.

  Michael Pollan

  Middle, Periphery, Supermarkets

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• I wished that my job was baking muffins in a muffin shop, where all I'd have to do was crack eggs and measure flour and make change, and nobody could abuse me, and where they'd even expect me to be fat. Every flab roll and cellulite crinkle would serve as testimony to the excellence of my baked goods

  Jennifer Weiner

  Jobs, Eggs, Abuse

  Jennifer Weiner (2002). “Good in Bed”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Okay. That was nice. Clothes. You need clothes before I do something I might not regret. What was your size again, Steve? (Sunshine) Talon. (Talon) Talon. Size. Clothes. Cover him up. I’m going to go get Talon clothes. Keys. Need keys for car. Purse. Money for clothes. Shoes. Must have shoes to shop and keep feet warm. (Sunshine) What about a coat? It is wintertime. (Talon) Coats are good in the winter. (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Regret, Nice, Sunshine

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• Even if there was such a thing as a half-price sale at the local Ming outlet shop, she would have to work ten lifetimes to make up such a sum. Always supposing that it wasn't one of a kind. Panic was no longer merely rearing. It was thundering through her at full throttle. There was only one thing to be done, she realized. The mature, responsible, adult thing to do. Hide the evidence.

  Alexandra Ivy

  Supposing That, Adults, Done

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• She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

  Thomas Hardy

  Family, Mother, Party

  Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Brontë (2016). “Classic British Love Stories: Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jane Eyre”, p.1025, Open Road Media

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• A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Coffee, Wine

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.139, Hamilton Books

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