Shops Quotes - Page 32

• Visiting any shop for the first time is exciting. There's always that buzz as you push open the door; that hope; that belief - that this is going to be the shop of all shops, which will bring you everything you ever wanted, at magically low prices.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Doors, Buzz, Firsts

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “Shopaholic Abroad: (Shopaholic Book 2)”, p.162, Random House

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• The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)

  Muriel Spark

  Girl, Morning, Mind

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• I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops... Eventually companion animals would be phased out.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Thinking, Pet

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• I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Mayfair. All are characterised by high density and a generosity of green spaces. They are all pedestrian-friendly with shops, entertainment, restaurants and pubs within easy walking distance.

  Norman Foster

  Distance, Space, Generosity

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• I shop like a bull - I charge everything!

  Jerry Smith

  Shopping, Bulls, Black Friday

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• I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.

  Marvin Bell

  Coffee, Writing, Brain

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• I was helping my mom grind meat at our butcher shop, and it just hypnotized me. I don't remember sticking my hand in, but it sheared off the three middle fingers and left me with a pinkie and a thumb.

  Jon Tester

  Mom, Hands, Meat

  "What I've Learned: Senator Jon Tester (D, Mont.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 28, 2010.

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• The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the listener might find enlightening. I learned, for example, that in the late 1500s my little neighborhood square was a popular spot for burning people alive. Now lined with a row of small shops, the tradition continues, though in a figurative rather than literal sense.

  David Sedaris

  Squares, Cities, People

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.

  Richie Benaud

  Australia, Jam, Tyres

  Interview With Jim White, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.

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• You want people to feel comfortable to walk in their neighborhoods, go out and shop, do business.

  Rick Scott

  People, Want, Neighborhood

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• We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Brother, Book, Adventure

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.54, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If you are in a state of mind in which all things are one, then you can spend your time in lingerie shops.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Lingerie

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• I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day.

  Neil Diamond

  Dad, School, Singing

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• Sometimes I'll be confident and go into a shop and say, "Hello, yeah, all right," and then the next day, if someone looks at me or talks to me, I just don't know what to do. If you're walking down the street with a baseball cap, you might be fine. But if you're in a pub and you see someone look at you, you think the worst thing in the world now is if they come over. It's a really weird feeling.

  Ricky Gervais

  Baseball, Thinking, Next Day

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. April 21, 2004.

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• I've always played music because it just feels right and have been grateful for everything I have and the shows that I play. Even when I was playing coffee shops; it's how its always been.

  Zella Day

  Coffee, Grateful, Play

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• I write both at home and at coffee shops, and I have a terrible work ethic - I have a tendency to write most of my books right before the deadline. I'm trying to work on that, but so far, I'm not getting any more organized.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Coffee, Book, Home

  "Romance Unlaced: Interview with Elizabeth Hoyt". Interview With Madeline Hunter, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. September 10, 2014.

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• The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.

  George Herbert

  Men, Singing

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.360

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• But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into what is the cause of GOODNESS, so why of the other shop?

  Anthony Burgess

  Brother, Laughing, Nails

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.46, W. W. Norton & Company

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• One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there - that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Coffee, Book, Writing

  "Dating Advice". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. February 9, 2005.

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• I think one day I can make a book about coffee shops in Hong Kong. I spent almost most of my time in coffee shops, in different coffee shops.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Coffee, Book, Thinking

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• I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.

  Rick Astley

  Uncles, Dad, Kids

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

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• The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Islands, Cities, Rivers

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• Milan, for me, is a city of discovery. You can find some amazing gardens behind some great houses; I also love finding beautiful galleries and incredible shops, but you have to explore. And the food is amazing.

  Francisco Costa

  Beautiful, Garden, Discovery

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• The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.

  Mona Simpson

  Mother, Men, Ice Cream

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• The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Cities, Commerce, Warehouse

  Katharine Lee Bates (1907). “From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in England”

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