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“Ella's supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops, cafes, and restaurants and the crush of people that made the West Village of Manhattan unique in the world. In a single block you could buy fertility statues from Tanzania, rare Amazonian orchids, a pawned brass tuba, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, or the best, most expensive cup of coffee you ever tasted. It was the doughnuts, incidentally, that attracted Gaia.”

Source: Sam

“A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I think of Susan Sarandon, Cameron Diaz and Isabelle Huppert.”

Thinking Age Certain Lovers Actresses Shops Cameron

Author:Roger Ebert

“You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.”

Knows I Can Loses Picks Stores Apples Department Shops Groceries Grocery Stores Department Stores

Author:Gail Simmons

“If you go to a coffee shop or at the airport, and you're using open wireless, I would use a VPN service that you could subscribe for 10 bucks a month. Everything is encrypted in an encryption tunnel, so a hacker cannot tamper with your connection.”

Ifs Use Months Connections Coffee Shops Airports Bucks Tunnels Wireless Hackers Coffee Shop Encryption

Author:Kevin Mitnick

“The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.”

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is bad. If you've had a poor breakfast in a hotel, you should put your knife and fork down and boo.”

Ifs Should Poor Down And Restaurants Shops Hotel Breakfast Knives Forks Booing

Author:Jenny Eclair

“The regrets I have are so minor. You know, would I leave my Keith Richards hat, with the silver skull on it, on the stool at the coffee shop at LaGuardia? I wouldn't do that again. But overall, no, I don't have any regrets.”

Knows Regret Coffee Shops Hats Silver Minors Skulls Keith Stools Coffee Shop

Book:Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson

Source: Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson

“When I shop for fruit & melons I like to hold a grape next to a cantaloupe & think of Earth next to Jupiter. Then I eat Earth.”

Thinking Earth Next Fruit Shops Grapes Jupiter Melons

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.”

Shops Barbers Barber Shop

Author:Bernie Mac

“I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't do drugs. I shop, okay?”

Drink Drug Okay Smoke Shops

Author:Danielle Fishel

“Roadrunner, roadrunner, going faster miles an hour. Gonna drive past the Stop 'n' Shop, with the radio on. I'm in love with Massachusetts and the neon when it's cold outside. And the highway when it's late at night. Got the radio on, I'm like the roadrunner.”

Past Night Hours Cold Travel Late Radio Miles Faster Shops Highways Massachusetts Neon Cold Outside

Author:Jonathan Richman

“The only thing I can say, once again, is thank you, to all of you, to everyone who's supported us so far. From the people who first picked up the phone and voted on x factor, to the people who went into the shop and bought our albums and everybody in between. Thank you so much for a fantastic opportunity and helping me and the boys to where we are today.”

People Firsts I Can Helping Today Opportunity Boys Phones Albums Factors Fantastic Shops

Author:Liam Payne

“I've been waiting to get back in the Miller Lite Ford since Homestead. The team at the shop have put a lot of effort into building me a fast Ford Fusion for Speedweeks. Being in the Unlimited gives us a chance to see what we've got to work with for the Daytona 500. I think both myself and Joey in the No. 22 will be fast down here. I'm ready to go.”

Thinking Giving Waiting Chance Effort Team Building Ready Shops Get Back Unlimited Fusion Joey Daytona Give Us A Chance Daytona 500 Miller Lite

Author:Brad Keselowski

“As for environmentalism, I'm only an environmentalist by accident. I live in New York, so I bike, and the closest grocery store to me sells organic produce. I also shop with a book bag because I ride a bike, and it's hard to carry the paper or plastic bags.”

Book Hard New York Produce Paper Sells Accidents Stores Shops Bags Plastic Closest Bike Groceries Environmentalism Environmentalist Grocery Stores Plastic Bags

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“I've always enjoyed the record shops...they gave me a reason to leave my house.”

Reason House Records Enjoyed Shops

Author:Pete Yorn

“I could quite happily run a florist or a bake shop.”

Running Shops

Author:Lena Headey

“My big places to shop are Wal-Mart and Target - seriously. That is where half of my stuff comes from now.”

Bigs Stuff Half Shops Target

Author:Kelly Preston

“I'm a pretty big clothes horse. I shop for clothes constantly. I do so much shopping. I should go to Shoppers Anonymous.”

Should Bigs Clothes Horse Shops Shopping Shoppers

Author:Tiffani Thiessen

“I go shopping maybe three times a year in an intense way. I'm like a man. Can't spend too much time in a shop.”

Men Way Years Three Too Much Intense Shops Shopping Three Times

Author:Eva Green

“When I was a kid at first I wanted to own a candy shop. I guess every kid wants to - we just want to have access - free access.”

Want Firsts Kids Wanted Access Shops Candy

Author:Franka Potente

“Yeah I got game like Stuart Scott...fresh out the ESPN shop”

Games Yeah Shops Espn

Author:Lil Wayne

“I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop. Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.”

Want Firsts Jobs Sound Pay Cutting Paper Fruit Rounds Eight Shops

Author:Paul O'Grady

“My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.”

Littles Use Vanity Supposed To Be Shops Brown Bags Italian Mum Items Leather Treasured Handbags

Author:Felicity Jones

“I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist.”

People Thinking Opportunity Bunch Shops Holiday Stressed Conformist Stressed Out

Author:Ricky Martin

“I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That's why I love coffee shops and public places - I mean, they're all out there.”

People World Looks Mean Creativity Strange Coffee Manage Shops Absurdity Strange Things Coffee Shop I Love Coffee

Author:David Lynch

“Consider Christmas - could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system whereby several hundred million people get a billion or so gifts for which they have no use, and some thousands of shop clerks die of exhaustion while selling them, and every other child in the Western world is made ill from overeating - all in the name of the lowly Jesus?”

“Beautiful colours can be bought in the shops on the Riatlo, but good drawing can only be bought from the casket of the artist's talent with patient study and nights with out sleep.”

Beautiful Artist Night Sleep Study Talent Patient Drawing Colour Shops Caskets

Author:Tintoretto

“'Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, Careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit And serve our jape's turn for a night or two.”

Knows World Needs Two Night Turns Work Justice Views Fit Boxes Shops Mask Self Knowledge Pits Careless

Book:Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)

“Music is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me.”

People Play Seems Jobs Interesting Party Hell Musician Music Is Golf Bars Shops Vacation Going Out Carrying On Music Is My Life

Author:John Frusciante

“Man United have shops all round the world. It's a big money spinner plus the fact that they change their strip every five minutes.”

Men World Facts Bigs Change United Five Minutes Rounds Shops Plus Five Minutes Spinner Man United

Author:Jack Charlton

“I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.”

“It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.”

Two Cities Morning Quiet Window Loud Paris Shops Companion Heels Avenues High Heels Deserted Pavement

Book:The Pageant of the Years: An Autobiography

Source: The Pageant of the Years: An Autobiography

“We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed.”

Film Walks Watches Morning Changed Wake Up Shops Introducing

Author:Simon Pegg

“After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.”

People Men Heard Mines Blind Passing Passings Shops Concerts Blind Man Edinburgh

Book:Chopin's Letters

Source: Chopin's Letters

“Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.”

Night Found Stars Simple Seeing Land Coffee Islands Shops Airplane Airports Bicycle Simple Things Nephew Coffee Shop

Author:Andrea Hirata

“My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.”

Ifs Doe Important Mother Realizing Love Is Acting Careers College Brother Perspective And Love Shoes My Brother Shops Boots

Author:Dana Hill

“The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.”

Men Order Quality Window Vain Shops Deceiving Illuminating Arranging Concealing Shop Windows

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The inhabitants are numerous and happy... Throuhout the country the people do not kill any living creature, nor drink intoxicating liquor, they do not keep pigs and fowl, and do not sell live cattle; in the markets there are no butcher shops and no dealers in intoxicating drink... Only the Chandalas (lowest cast) are fisherman and hunters and sell flesh meat.”

People Country Drink Creatures Sells Casts Flesh Meat Shops Vegetarian Pigs Lowest Hunters Vegetarianism Liquor Dealer Cattle Fisherman Living Creatures Butchers Fowl

Author:Faxian

“Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress.”

Gone Fashion Dresses Shops Snobbery Duchess

Book:Quant

Source: Quant

“I live in Selfridges because it has everything under one roof. Liberty's is great for the same reason - I'm so lazy, I hate walking from shop to shop. Powder in Crouch End always has great designer labels in, so when I walk past I have to put my blinkers on because every time I nip in I come out with too much stuff; it's dangerous.”

Ends Reason Past Hate Stuff Walks Liberty Too Much Dangerous Walking I Hate Labels Designer Shops Lazy Roof Powder Blinkers

Author:Sheridan Smith

“People who are busy doing things - as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops -don't have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them.”

People Kind Reading Opportunity Sitting Busy Coffee Like Me Make Sense Shops Organize Sitting Around Coffee Shop

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty stomach, you'll buy too much, and if you shop after a big meal, you'll buy too little.”

Ifs Feels Littles Bigs Next Too Much Week Tomorrow Empty Meals Shops Stomach Supermarkets Next Week Gauges Empty Stomach

Author:Daniel Gilbert

“People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's sacrilege, to tell you the truth, it really is.”

People Thinking Church Products Loyalty Consumers Shops Sacrilege

Author:Eugene H. Peterson

“He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.”

Should Mind Wise Devil Trade Temptation Shops

Book:Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions: With the Chief Heads of the Sermons, a Biographical Memoir, and General Index

Source: Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions: With the Chief Heads of the Sermons, a Biographical Memoir, and General Index

“I'm an artist. There are a lot of people in the business who aren't. It's like they've got a shoe repair shop.”

People Artist Shoes Shops

Author:Lyle Tuttle

“I'm not one for sightseeing or going around the shops when I'm on holiday. I do enough shopping when I'm at home, and like to have a complete break when I'm away.”

Enough Home Break Shops Holiday Shopping Sightseeing

Author:Paloma Faith

“I was thrilled when a designer shop assistant said I was a size smaller than Madonna!”

Said Size Designer Shops Assistants

Author:Anne Robinson

“I am no longer the left behind. I am the living. And I want everything this life has to offer. I stop for a second and look around at all the shops and stores and stalls. At all the people, going about their days, at all the moments they're living. This is what I want. I want to live every moment. I want to feel everything.”

People Want Feels Looks Moments Left Behinds Offers Stores This Life Shops Left Behind Live Every Moment

Author:Daisy Whitney

“The soldiers in Iraq are fighting, suffering and dying . . . anonymously and pointlessly, while the rest of us are free to buckle ourselves into the family vehicle and head off to the malls and shop.”

Suffering Fighting Dying Soldier Iraq Shops Vehicle Malls Buckles

Author:Bob Herbert

“Anything you're interested in the world whether it be Charlie rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop, they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.”

World Interesting Figures Rose Coffee Locals Shops Charlie Broadcasting Coffee Shop Public Figures

Author:Jack Dorsey

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