Shops Quotes · Page 5

My favorite place to shop is: any Duane Reade.

— Michael Bastian

I like to shop. That's what I do. Online shopping; any kind of shopping.

— Sloane Stephens

I asked a shop owner if he could help me out. He said: "What way did you come in?"

— Frank Carson

“I hate it. I hate taxidermy shops and all that crap.”

— Michael Jackson

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.

— Andrew Rannells

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

— Etta James

And what is true of a shop-keeper is true of a shop-keeping nation.

— Josiah Tucker

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

— Michelangelo

I'd love to get a chance to talk shop with Joss Whedon. That's pretty high up there on the list.

— Patrick Rothfuss

A man walks into a pet shop and says: "Give me a wasp." The shopkeeper replies: "We don't sell wasps." He says:…

— Frank Carson

I love trawling through markets and vintage shops, and I make super-quick decisions about buying clothes. I also have my usual haunts…

— Alice Temperley

I hate to be treated as if I'm invisible. I get incensed when people talk across me or refuse to catch my…

— Lynne Truss

Standardized sizes made inexpensive, off-the-rack garments economically feasible. They gave shoppers a reliable guide to finding clothes in self-service shops.

— Virginia Postrel

This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue illustration…

— Peg Bracken

The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a…

— Daniel Pennac

Counter Girl (in candy shop): You two are cute. Seriously. How long have you been going out? Sam: Six years.

— Maggie Stiefvater

My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more…

— Dana Hill

I don't really hang out with people. I like to be by myself. In fact, I've been arrested a few times because…

— Emo Philips

So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a…

— Ed Smith

Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China to be…

— Rose George

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was…

— Colin Hay

[On living in New York City:] I'm oblivious to everything. I just don't notice anything. I sat in a coffee shop, drank…

— Laura Kightlinger

I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father's shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable."…

— Lisa Kleypas

Cobbled streets and no shops open past six o'clock, a communal life that seemed to revolve around church, and where you could…

— J. K. Rowling

Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes, hi-fi, etc.…

— Georges Perec

I don't know if one's more typecasting than the other, or what I am more like. But I know that the high…

— Judd Nelson

If you and I took a walk down a shopping street in Jo'burg or Cape Town or London, we see two guys…

— Peter James

The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the listener might find enlightening. I learned, for…

— David Sedaris

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a…

— Samuel Foote

[The web] is going to end up being a tremendous advantage, providing we can work out the financial structure. I think we’ll…

— Harold Evans

If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

There is a lot of difference between offering a garland of flowers bought from a shop and one that we make out…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.

— Nora Roberts

You can imagine the sign outside Tory central office. Shop closed - out to lunch.

— Michael Heseltine

London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.

— George Gissing

I love to be close to shops as shopping is one of my biggest passions.

— Gok Wan

The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

— Phyllis Bottome

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

— Erin O'Connor

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

— Redman

A bull in just about any shop is gonna be a mess.

— Sarah Silverman