Top 13 Shopworn Quotes
#1. They are books that have been read and read intensely. They are knocked about and shopworn. I would be ashamed of a book whose spine was not broken.
Linda Grant
#2. I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#3. It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from writing my biography of Winston Churchill - that short, strong words work better. I am ever-vigilant against the passive and against jargon, both of which are so insidious.
Gretchen Rubin
#4. Yet even the most hackneyed, shopworn science fiction or fantasy tale will feel startling and fresh to a naive reader who doesn't know the milieu is just like the one used in a thousand other stories.
Orson Scott Card
#5. flushed face as he continued to stare at her. "I'm
Sandra Hill
#7. Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age.
Dana Goodyear
#8. I can do one or the other. Lovemaking or thinking. But not both at the same time.
Loretta Chase
#10. What I'm looking for is a self-promoting film; a movie which immediately gets people's imagination is something I can promote - a project which writes its own publicity.
Jeremy Thomas
#11. If you are not open to the change, you will be no different than a statue in the museum!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#12. To relate a Beethoven sonata to the testicles is hardly in the style of traditional aesthetics.
Terry Eagleton
#13. It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.
Elizabeth Bowen
