Shop Quotes

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house. (Jean Kerr)
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.' View quote
Steven Wright
Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business. View quote
Leo Burnett
A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases. View quote
Michael Greger
Funny, I never shopped. Even my jewelry - not a piece of my jewelry I bought for me. View quote
Imelda Marcos
Now that my ladders gone, I must lie down where all the ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart. View quote
William Butler Yeats
People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Think about it, I say. How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not. View quote
Ayelet Waldman
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 sorry for them. View quote
Joyce Grenfell
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. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. (Abraham Lincoln)
I've had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles, both at the office, as a mom, and for television. When I shop for the season I look for pieces that will suit every facet of my daily life, not just one single occasion. View quote
Nina Garcia
The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies. View quote
Anita Roddick
Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get on with the business of one's life. That's the hope, anyway. View quote
David Rakoff
As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for. View quote
Paul Krugman
What would people think of a tradesman, that was to give a ball in his shop, hire performers, and hand refreshments about, with a view to benefit his business? View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
It's the best proposal that we ought to have because it's flatter, it's fairer, it's finite, it's family friendly. And instead, we've had a Congress that spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop. View quote
Mike Huckabee
The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use. (George Bernard Shaw)
Arakawa: I'd follow three simple rules: 1) Never go within two kilometres of circus freaks. 2) Never go near the butcher shop in Dublith. 3) Always spend under 300 sen on snacks. That ought to keep me alive! [chuckle]. View quote
Hiromu Arakawa
Here's a thought for sweat shop owners: Air Conditioning. Problem solved. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
When you grow up in Bel Air and shop only in expensive boutiques on Rodeo and Robertson, you develop a kind of allergy to anything unpretty -clothes, cars... even people... you start thinking that if you hang around unattractive people, their homeliness can be contagious. View quote
Nicole Richie
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise. View quote
George Chapman