Shopkeeper Quotes

#1. With an understanding of Shakespeare there comes a release from the gullibility that makes you prey to the great shopkeeper who runs the world, and would sell you cheap to illusion.

Nadine Gordimer

#2. Almost is such a wonderful word don't you think?" the shopkeeper said with a wink. "So full of wiggle-room and loopholes, so not-absolutely-anything. Almost killed means still very much alive, which I am sure you will agree makes all the difference.

A.J. Hartley

#3. I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A.G., whom the generality admoyers in this that is and that this is to come.

James Joyce

#4. The shopkeeper called her brave and beautiful. Jacin called her blinding. It was kind of nice to know that they were both wrong.

Marissa Meyer

#5. No," said the shopkeeper, "not really. I always say home is where you hang your hat." "Um, no," said Twoflower, always anxious to enlighten. "Where you hang your hat is a hatstand. A home is -

Terry Pratchett

#6. I am glad to have found a readership, but one can't write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#7. It's nice to watch television but it's even nicer when you've got a drink in your hand,' Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. 'Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that you're in a posh cabaret.

David Kynaston

#8. Noooo, there's no way I, a mere handsome and sexy shopkeeper, could possibly have bankai! - Urahara Kisuke

Tite Kubo

#9. But I want to spend the whole trip out here, with the ocean replenishing her treasures like an old shopkeeper as I sleep alongside her in the sand.

Sarah Ockler

#10. Cinder found her reflection almost comforting. The shopkeeper called her brave and beautiful. Jacin called her blinding. It was kind of nice to know that they were both wrong. She was still just Cinder. Tucking

Marissa Meyer

#11. Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.

Terry Pratchett

#12. People talk of "class selfishness". Well, I know something of history, and I never heard of any tyrant, aristocrat, capitalist, slave-holder, buccaneer, middle-class shopkeeper - so absolutely and exclusively governed by selfishness as Trades Union "labour".

George Saintsbury

#13. She reminded Juliet of the parrot the shopkeeper owned. Both the woman and bird belonged in cages, preferably the same cage, so the bird could poop on all that velvet and lace.

Jordan Elizabeth Mierek

#14. An Indian shopkeeper offered kites with images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and President Barack Obama in Mumbai this month.

Anonymous

#15. Monsieur Lerebour was short, round and jovial, with the joviality of a shopkeeper who liked to do himself well. His wife, who was thin, self-willed and perpetually discontented, had still not succeeded in overcoming her husband's good humour.

Guy De Maupassant

#16. The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door.

Peter S. Beagle

#17. She was the kind of shopkeeper who finishes the paragraph she is reading before waiting on the customer.

Cornell Woolrich

#18. I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

Ian Anderson

#19. No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.

Karl Marx

#20. I am glad I have found a readership, but one can't write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#21. Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.

Les Wexner

#22. I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up to me, would be very, very quiet. I'd be like a shopkeeper, a book collector, or something like that. I'm not like this. Myself as a performer and an artist is totally different from who I am.

Mos Def

#23. I thought about how this banknote had witnessed a moment of each one of those people's lives. Maybe it had been at the scene of a murder, then passed from the murderer to a shopkeeper somewhere, then to a good person somewhere else.

Fuminori Nakamura

#24. there used to be a shopkeeper in Bristol who deliberately stuck ungrammatical signs in his window as a ruse to draw people into the shop; they would come in to complain, and he would then talk them into buying something.

Lynne Truss

#25. When I am through learning, I am through.

John Wooden

#26. Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.

Rick Perry

#27. The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side. In truth, tragedy and comedy are the twin masks of history - its mass appeal.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#28. You are the ONLY you there is, you have a purpose, you are not just a biomass

Sunday Adelaja

#29. What makes critics dictate what is cool and what is not. What gives them the pass to say that their opinion on music or movies or anything is what should be cool and what shouldn't. I don't think it should be up to one person.

Vanilla Ice

#30. I'm moving away from time. Or, is it that time is moving away from me?

Leigh Hershkovich