Shops Quotes - Page 31

• My favorite place in the world is this store called My Sister's Closet in Arizona and it's the greatest secondhand shop in the world.

  Chelsea Kane

  Arizona, Favorite Places, World

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• When I learnt, however, that in 1911 there had been twenty-one regular feminist periodicals in Britain, that there was a feminist book shop, a woman's press, and a woman's bank run by and for women, I could no longer accept that the reason I knew almost nothing about women of the past was because there were so few of them, and they had done so little.

  Dale Spender

  Running, Book, Past

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• A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.

  Artemas Ward

  Writing, Shut Up, Grammar

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• The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Wine, Glasses, Gentleman

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• I always bring cash for tips, and I never give less than $20. I used to work in a smoothie shop, so I know the value of a tip.

  Megan Fox

  Giving, Cash, Smoothies

  "Megan Fox won't tip less than $20, likes neat handwriting and is having a good pregnancy" by Rebecca Pocklington, www.mirror.co.uk. December 21, 2013.

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• Most people unfamiliar with the men in a new town might search for love until they find it. I picked out some guy on my second day in LA, who worked at the local bicycle shop, and handed my virginity to him. “You can fill a tire? Sounds good to me. Let's call it a date.” Needless to say he wasn't Mr. Right.

  Kathy Griffin

  Men, Mr Right, People

  Kathy Griffin (2009). “Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin”, p.53, Ballantine Books

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• After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.

  Wallace Shawn

  Jobs, Thinking, Clerks

  "Wallace Shawn juggles acting jobs and play writing". Interview with Dany Margolies, www.reuters.com. February 1, 2011.

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• I think the first time I realised Downton Abbey was a hit was when I was sitting in a tea shop in New York and the couple next to me were talking about Downton Abbey, and then they recognised me.

  Michelle Dockery

  New York, Couple, Thinking

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• How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.

  Bill Vaughan

  Husband, Hate, Men

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• He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.

  George Herbert

  Crafts, Shut Up

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.318

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• I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone.

  Martin Freeman

  People, Leaving, Records

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

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• I hate it. I hate taxidermy shops and all that crap.

  Michael Jackson

  Hate, Taxidermy, Crap

  Interview with Bob Colacello, Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2011.

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• You can just go to a magic shop or magic builder and buy what most magicians do, but that's not what I'm about. With 'Mindfreak' on television and 'Believe' live, I want to bring things that people have never seen before. That process is very difficult. It's very challenging, and you never know how long it's going to take - months or years.

  Criss Angel

  Believe, Years, Long

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• If you're a print shop and you are a gay man, should you be forced to print 'God Hates Fags' for the Westboro Baptist Church because they hold those signs up? Should the government - and this is really the case here - should the government force you to do that?

  Rick Santorum

  Hate, Gay, Men

  "Face the Nation" with Norah O'Donnell, www.cbsnews.com. April 05, 2015.

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• My boss seems to think that my hair is gonna fall off & go into the ice cream. This hair ain't movin' my dude. 150mph on the highway on a street bike it doesn't move! What makes you think it's gonna move in a gelato shop?

  Pauly D

  Moving, Fall, Thinking

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• Whitley Bay was my first experience of the seaside. I'd buy my bucket and spade, and beach ball, and all the shops were teeming with toys. I used to spend hours on the shuggy boats.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Beach, Buckets, Balls

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• I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Sunday, Fleas, Gals

  "Tribeca Film Festival Cast Interview: Beware! The Gonzo". Interview with Caitlin Colford, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder.

  Ashley Jensen

  Hands, Designer Clothes, Bears

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• I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence.

  Ashley Jensen

  Museums, Smell, Church

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• in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Country, Live Life, Cities

  Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

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• [On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male closed shop, seeing that, to judge from church attendance, women are the more religious sex - while our criminal statistics make quite clear that they are the least wicked.

  Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks

  Religious, Sex, Judging

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• Whether you're moving to a new company or a new department within your current organization, I believe you'll end up miles ahead if you shop for a boss, not a position. You may secure the greatest job in the world, but a miserable boss will turn gold into ashes. ... In many ways, your boss may be more important than the job.

  Pat Heim

  Jobs, Work, Believe

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• I've got to be able to get my time off whether it's just enjoying my house or the peace and quiet of my family and being there and cooking for them. I love doing that. I also love doing leisure things. I ride horses. I love to shop. I love to drive!

  LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  Horse, House, Cooking

  "Designer Q&A: LisaRaye on PZI Jeans". Interview with Elliana Placas, www.essence.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Love is for free, just expensive to shop.

  Rick Ross

  Life, Love Is, Expensive

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• Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in front of auto-repair shops - like a poorer version of the 1950s America depicted in such films as Grease.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Dirty, Men, White

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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