Shops Quotes - Page 15

• Originally, we were going to set up a cappuccino bar in the showroom, but we've been so busy, ... We decided when we're old and grey, we're going to set up a coffee shop, and we formed the company about 18 months ago when we thought of the name. It's going to be TLC - Tastes Like Chocolate.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Coffee, Names, Chocolate

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• Growing up, I had an insane crush on Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.

  Erin O'Connor

  Crush, Growing Up, Boys

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 29, 2008.

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• Businesses are made by people. We've proven time and time again that you can have wonderful shop, and put a bloke in there who's no good, and he'll stuff it up. Put a good bloke in, and it just turns around like that .

  Gerry Harvey

  Ambition, People, Stuff

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• The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.

  George Orwell

  Children, Beer, Gathering

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.

  Tristan Bernard

  Happiness, Joy, Able

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• Someone from Manolo Blahnik went into my shop and said: 'These shoes are not vegetarian.' That's the highest compliment, because you just can't tell that they are, and they are. My mum taught me to have a soul.

  Stella McCartney

  Funny Inspirational, Shoes, Soul

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• Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Guy, Paint

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• We've been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we've been kicking it all over the shop, but fortunately we've been able to make the big buckets and rely on our defense for once.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Kicking It, Buckets

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• Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.

  William Shakespeare

  Holiday, Beggar, Romeo And Juliet Play

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. 72

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• I'm the lyrical vendor, hip-hop is my shop

  Lil Wayne

  Rap, Hip Hop, Hips

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• My man slangs rocks like up the block, 143RD and Amsterdam by the smoke shop

  Redman

  Block, Rap, Men

  Song: Rated 'r', Album: Whut? Thee Album

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• But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Shopping, Giving, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1482, Delphi Classics

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• It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied as the result of the first year's work, than to have two thousand dollars' worth of shells and corals bought from a curiosity-shop. The dozen animals would be your own.

  Louis Agassiz

  Teaching, Knowledge, Science

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• All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'paycheck to paycheck.' Studies show that every household wastes 10% or more of its salary or income on unnecessary expenditures or by not taking the time to shop for better prices. It's all a matter of proper budgeting.

  Mark Skousen

  Salary, Income, Budgeting

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• I think a pastor used to be viewed as the one-stop ministry shop. The pastor served on every committee, volunteered at every event, and made all the hospital visits. I think that is changing and I think that is healthy. Both for the pastor and the congregation.

  Mark Batterson

  Past, Thinking, Healthy

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• Normally I'm really lucky because I can go down to my local shops and no one cares. I take the Tube and the bus so it's kind of the perfect balance.

  MyAnna Buring

  Perfect, Balance, Lucky

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• People always say 'Etta, you know what your problem is? You're neither fish nor fowl. There is no place to rack you.' When I would go in a record shop, you might find one or two records by me in different stacks.

  Etta James

  Two, People, Different

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• There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.

  Augustus William Hare

  Flower, Garden, Smell

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.199

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• Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.

  Alex Kapranos

  Years, Ties, Boho

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

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• The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know.

  Tobey Maguire

  Fun, Philosophy, Book

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• You go into any doughnut shop and look at three cops having coffee, I guarantee I look like one of them.

  Dean Norris

  Coffee, Looks, Guarantees

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• I was not prepared for the actual process itself; having to go to the shop and having some molds done.

  David Naughton

  Mold, Done, Process

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• I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop.

  Bruce Oldfield

  Humble, People, Noses

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• My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop.

  Paul O'Grady

  Teacher, School, Shoes

  "Paul O'Grady: 'You could torture me on the rack and I'd still refuse to eat balut'" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2011.

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• It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always used to say, 'Do you shop at Home Depot?' or 'Does your kid go to such and such school?' They want to know why they know me, even if they don't know my name. I don't think that's a bad thing, by the way; I think it's nice to be kind of anonymously famous.

  Terry O'Quinn

  Nice, School, Kids

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