Quotes with shop-talk

Quotes 341 till 360 of 460.

  • Joyce Grenfell 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.
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  • Matthew Prior They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • James Russell Lowell They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Carl Hubbell They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
    Carl Hubbell
    American baseball player (1903 - )
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  • Edmund Burke They talk as if England were not in Europe.
    Source: The Speeches (1816) p 86
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Matthew Prior They talk most who have the least to say.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Joseph Conrad They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Herman Melville They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas They're talking about a movie I don't want to hold to that because in this business you can talk about things for years before they get done - god knows if the financing would happen.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht This is the year which people will talk about
    This is the year which people will be silent about. The old see the young die.
    The foolish see the wise die. The earth no longer produces, it devours.
    The sky hurls down no rain, only iron.
    Source: Poems, 1913-1956 Finland 1940 [Finnland 1940] (1940), trans. Sammy
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Ben Jonson Those that merely talk and never think,
    That live in the wild anarchy of drink.
    Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Andy Warhol Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Jim Crace To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.
    Jim Crace
    English writer and novelist (1946 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Aldous Huxley To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Augustus William Hare To talk without effort is, after all, the great charm of talking.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Bruno Mars Today, I'd like to talk to Bob Marley. I'd just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don't know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from 'Redemption Song' to 'Is This Love?' and 'I Shot the Sheriff.'
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Billy Bob Thornton Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.
    Billy Bob Thornton
    American actor, writer, and musician (1955 - )
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