Shops Quotes - Page 39

• Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.

  John Wayne

  Funny, Hate, Humor

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• A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price.

  Peter Mayhew

  Games, Generations, Video

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• A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

  Alexander Herzen

  Business, Ambition, Views

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• I was just working in the shop and all of a sudden something just triggered in me, and I started shaking. And then I walked back into the house and my wife asked, 'What's the matter?' And I said, 'I don't feel good.' And tears, uncontrollable tears, was coming out of my eyes and she says, 'What's the matter?' And I told her. I said, 'I just thought about that execution that I did two days ago, and everybody else's that I was involved in.' And what it was, something triggered within, and it just, everybody - all of these executions all sprung forward.

  Fred Allen

  Eye, Two, Wife

  "In America; Inside the Death House" by Bob Herbert, www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2000.

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• I can assume that the younger generations will no longer know what vinyl was. Maybe some kids will take their CD back to the shop, telling the shop owner they have a faulty disc and if they could please get a new one.

  Mike Rutherford

  Kids, Cds, Generations

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• I still shop at Costco. I just started tipping two years ago.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Years, Two

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• I go to coffee shops for my outlet. Which is just not healthy at all.

  Jane Lynch

  Coffee, Healthy, Outlets

  "See Jane Laugh". Interview with Allan Fallow, www.aarp.org. September 13, 2011.

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• I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

  Anne Rice

  Book, Curiosity, Madness

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• My father...made us shop at Goodwill. I found things to wear and got Best Dressed (in the yearbook) two years in a row. I had lemons, so I made lemonade.

  Nick Cannon

  Attitude, Father, Yearbook

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• Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I should have gone on living my full complement of days, is assuredly a prodigy among men quite capable of tranquilly urging the Emperor to open a fruit shop.

  Osamu Dazai

  Suicide, Men, Offering

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.159, New Directions Publishing

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• It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.

  Cory Doctorow

  Girl, Ebay, Games

  Interview with Richard Koman, archive.oreilly.com. March 4, 2005.

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• Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our moral code, is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism. Will it not lead to a revolution? Indeed, it will. No real social change has ever come without a revolution. People are either not familiar with their history, or they have not yet learned that revolution is but thought carried into action.

  Emma Goldman

  Real, Law, Direct Action

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.44, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Very close by the CMS shops, hidden about a quarter mile away in the woods, was the prison's rifle range. Correctional officers could spend quality time with their firearms down there, and the hammering of multiple rounds was typical background noise during our workdays. There was something unsettling about toiling away for a prison while listening to your jailers practice shooting you.

  Piper Kerman

  Background Noise, Practice, Listening

  Piper Kerman (2010). “Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison”, p.166, Spiegel & Grau

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• I had an ASU student looking for it in my shop last week, and he defined the Bacchants for me as 'those drunk chicks who killed that one dude because he wouldn't have sex with them.' His professors must be so proud. I asked him if he knew what maenads were, and instead of correctly answering that it was just another name for Bacchants, he bizarrely thought I was referring to my own testicles - as in, "'Ere now, mate, don't swing that bat around me nads.'" The conversation deteriorated quickly after that.

  Kevin Hearne

  Sex, Swings, Names

  Kevin Hearne (2011). “Hexed: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Two”, p.50, Del Rey

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• Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for the average programmer, you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Fall, Views, Average

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.163, Springer Science & Business Media

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• A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Meditation, Solitude

  'Essais' (1580) bk. 1, ch. 39

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• Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop.

  Jay Chiat

  Thinking, Want, Advertising

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• They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.

  Joyce Grenfell

  Fashion, Sorry, Aggravation

  "Stately as a Galleon" by Joyce Grenfell, "English Lit.", 1978.

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• I don't think I'm fixed. People think that you're like a car in a body shop. You go in, they fix you, and you're out. It takes constant fixing.

  Demi Lovato

  Thinking, People, Car

  "'Demi Lovato: Stay Strong': 'Why not air all my secrets?'" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. March 07, 2012.

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• On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Grandma, Hands, Quality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.

  Gabrielle Anwar

  Love, Vintage, Ideas

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• Ella's supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops, cafes, and restaurants and the crush of people that made the West Village of Manhattan unique in the world. In a single block you could buy fertility statues from Tanzania, rare Amazonian orchids, a pawned brass tuba, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, or the best, most expensive cup of coffee you ever tasted. It was the doughnuts, incidentally, that attracted Gaia.

  Francine Pascal

  Crush, Block, Coffee

  Francine Pascal (2001). “Sam”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.

  Gail Simmons

  Apples, Stores, Groceries

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• Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Language, Currency

  Elizabeth Bowen (1949). “The Heat of the Day”, Jonathan Cape

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• I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which preceded the firing of that gun at Sumter. Politicians or far-sighted leaders on both sides knew what was coming. And it is they who have written histories of the war. But to the easy-going millions, busied with their farms or shops, the onrushing disaster was as inexplicable as an earthquake. Their protest arose from sea to sea like the clamor of a gigantic hive of frightened bees.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  War, Gun, Sea

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