Shopman Quotes

#1. Intellectual criticism will bind Europe together in bonds far closer than those that can be forged by shopman or sentimentalists. It will give us the peace that springs from understanding.

Oscar Wilde

#2. In a few months I was a seasoned guide. I had viewed myself as an amateur guide and a professional shopman, but now gradually I began to think of myself as a part-time shop-keeper and a full-time tourist guide.

R.K. Narayan

#3. He had no choice. None at all. His kind rarely did.

His shoulders slumped in resignation. He hung his head. His will, his pride, gone.

Evangeline Collins

#4. I wondered how that felt, to really like yourself. And I wondered why some people didn't like themselves and others did. Maybe that's just the way it was.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#5. Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, in order to impress others who don't care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.

Victor Papanek

#6. We must use every tool at our disposal to lift the living standards of low-wage employees.

Eric Schneiderman

#7. We all agree that marriage is a fundamental right. And in our country, and in our society, there are no second-class citizens.

Bill T. Jones

#8. To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.

D. A. Pennebaker

#9. My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.

Bernard Moitessier

#10. There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

Simone Weil

#11. When you've found the right one - when you see him, when you're with him - you'll feel like you're coming home.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#12. The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit ... archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character.

Kristan Higgins

#13. Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.

E. T. Bell