Best Peddler Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“For some days before, as well as for some nights, Vincent had observed a shadow about the quays. First because it had tried to sell him an obscene book, then because it tried to sell André an obscene book, then because it tried to sell everybody an obscene book.”

Pimp Peddler 1932 Several Occasions Waterfront The House Party

Book:The Complete Stories

Source: The Complete Stories

“Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars.”

Dresses Indian Shops Commerce Urban Assault Crowded Beggar Colorful Sensory Chatter Backdrop Peddler

Author:Steven Rattner

“You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say.”

People Thinking Knows Mere Peddler

Book:Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods / Uncollected Stories (Library of America #235)

Source: Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods / Uncollected Stories (Library of America #235)

“[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and makes every dealer in it a tyrant, from the director of an African company to the petty chapman [peddler].... It is a clear truth, that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.”

Men Littles Care Law Company Liberty Clear Directors Direct Trade Slave Tendencies Tyrants Shocking Diminish Petty Laws Of Nature Violation Dealer Slave Trade Peddler

Author:James Otis

“Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.”

Gone Doors Horse Wheels Afternoon Leisure Packs Spinning Sunny Bargains Wagons Peddler Sunny Afternoon

Book:Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede

“Write, if you must; not otherwise. Do not write, if you can earn a fair living at teaching or dressmaking, at electricity or hod-carrying. Make shoes, weed cabbages, survey land, keep house, make ice-cream, sell cake, climb a telephone pole. Nay, be a lightning-rod peddler or a book agent, before you set your heart upon it that you shall write for a living.... Living? It is more likely to be dying by your pen; despairing by your pen; burying hope and heart and youth and courage in your ink-stand.”

“Much of the criticism of economic globalization has centered on factory labor abuses. But the majority of the world's poor are not employed in factories; they are self-employed - as peasant farmers, rural peddlers, urban hawkers, and small producers, usually involved in agriculture and small trade in the world's vast "informal" economy .”

Source: How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition

“Harold Koopowitz a son-of-a-gun! He's a drug peddler, in my opinion.”

Opinion Son Drug Gun Peddler

Author:Michael Savage

“Marketers have long known that a name can make all the difference when you're trying to move the merch. The kiwifruit was once the Chinese gooseberry, after all - at least until the produce peddlers wised up - and the Chilean sea bass was once the singularly unappetizing Patagonian toothfish.”

Trying Long Moving Names Differences Known Sea Produce Chinese Bass Marketers Peddler Chileans

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.”

May Age Romance Natural Modern Males Ice Digital Selection You Like It Natural Selection Alpha Male Format Digital Age Alphas Quip Peddler

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.”

Ifs Men Trying Stills Would Be Age Young Science Teacher Circumstances Degrees Scientist Independence Available Young Man Scholar Modest Plumber Science Teacher Peddler

Author:Albert Einstein

“Don King is a hip exploiter, an intelligent flesh peddler”

Kings Intelligent Flesh Hips Boxing Peddler

Author:Larry Holmes

“Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler.”

Men Women Buying Embarrassed Dope Pajamas Peddler

Author:Jimmy Cannon

“We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.”

Believe Inspiration Pleasure Fashion Design Source Sensible Innovative Fashionable Good Design Source Of Inspiration Peddler

Author:Arthur Erickson

“The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.”

Lines Roles Media Tvs News Entertainment Performers Steady Promotion Sponsors Advertisers Puzzling Merchandising Peddler

Author:E. B. White

“You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs -- and the best -- he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Needs Giving Wells Kind Persons Made Two Hands Eye He Man Paint Breasts Peddler

Author:Pablo Picasso