Quotes with shop-talk

Quotes 221 till 240 of 460.

  • Aaron Spelling Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Cuthbert Collingwood Now, gentlemen, let s do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
    Cuthbert Collingwood
    English admiral (1748 - 1810)
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  • Cuthbert Collingwood Now, gentlemen, let's do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
    Source: Travalgar (21-10-1805)
    Cuthbert Collingwood
    English admiral (1748 - 1810)
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  • Oscar Wilde Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Antoine Rivarol Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Bill Kreutzmann Oh yeah, it's great see music and to play music in small places. And it's really fun for me to play here because, you know, I played two feet from people all night. And after all those years, it's great to be able to talk to folks.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Arne Jacobsen 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
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Billy Connolly Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.
    Billy Connolly
    Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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  • Boman Irani Once, Naseeruddin Shah told me that the wafer shop was the best acting school that I could have attended. And I completely agree. I observed every customer very minutely and picked up some quirk or the other. Later, I used those experiences while playing different characters.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Bob Mayer One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing.
    Bob Mayer
    American author (1959 - )
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  • John Erskine Only if we can restrain ourselves is conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.
    Source: The complete life (1943)
    John Erskine
    American educator and author, pianist and composer (1879 - 1951)
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  • Marcel Proust Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Barbara Delinsky Parents do bear some of the responsibility if they don't talk to their kids, are never around, even deny their kids the love that young girls often crave when they decide to have a baby.
    Barbara Delinsky
    American writer (1945 - )
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  • Armstrong Williams Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
    Source: Has Man a Future? (1962)
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Caitlin Moran People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Anatole Broyard People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Calvin Klein People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
    Calvin Klein
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Camilla Lackberg People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.
    Camilla Lackberg
    Swedish author (1974 - )
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