Quotes with shop-talk

Quotes 161 till 180 of 460.

  • Sarah Orne Jewett It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
    Sarah Orne Jewett
    American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849 - 1909)
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  • Thomas Carlyle It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspensed, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
    Source: The Adventurer
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Ellery Channing It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Cary Fowler It is impossible to talk about slowing climate change without talking about reducing CO2 emissions. Equally, it is impossible to talk about adapting to climate change without considering how we will feed ourselves. And it is out of the question that we can adapt agriculture without conserving crop diversity.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Barbara Amiel It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Adam Smith It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Thomas Jefferson It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bill Goldberg It's a sad situation when you have to talk crap about other organizations that you know your paths are never going to cross competitively.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Billy Corgan It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Terry Pratchett It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.
    Terry Pratchett
    English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works (1948 - 2015)
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  • Aaliyah It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
    Aaliyah
    American singer, actress and model (1979 - 2001)
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  • B. Kevin Turner It's so exciting to be able to talk about Office 365. I can only describe what Office 365 is in sort of two words. You could say technically it's three words. But Office 365, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing but a Google butt-kicker, that's all it is.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • Al Sharpton James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Billy Bob Thornton Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.
    Billy Bob Thornton
    American actor, writer, and musician (1955 - )
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  • Benedict Wong Kublai noticed this uncommon perception that Marco Polo has, with the idea to explain and talk about his country so vividly that he can see it.
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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