Greengrocer's Quotes

#1. Take what the British call the "greengrocer's apostrophe," named for aberrant signs advertising cauliflower's or carrot's in local fruit and vegetable shops.

Naomi S. Baron

#2. I would not describe myself as a super early adopter of consumer technology.

Peter Thiel

#3. There were never tears in Jamie's eyes though. He only cried in the way that couldn't be seen or heard. Inside.

Neha Yazmin

#4. Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.

David Hume

#5. Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

George Bernard Shaw

#6. A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't.

Kate Morton

#7. If I had shown half as many dangerous tendencies when I was a boy, my father would have apprenticed me to a greengrocer, of that I'm very sure,

Samuel Butler

#8. Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.

Loretta Young

#9. Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.

Virginia Foxx

#10. Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

Edmund White

#11. Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

#12. The biggest difference between people is between those who are trying to do the right thing - whether or not they succeed - and those for whom the only question is how much they can get away with.

Thomas Sowell

#13. God has given to His works His own character of emeth; they are watertight, faithful, reliable, not at all vague or phantasmal.

C.S. Lewis

#14. I still take advice from my mum on what clothes look good on me. I used to listen to her a lot more, but I've started to choose my own things from time to time.

Rafael Nadal