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  • Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

    Love   Marriage   Wedding  
    Jean Kerr (1962). “The Snake Has all the Lines”
  • No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums of Paris . Beginning with the market - where, for lack of money, I bought only a piece of a long cucumber - the workman in his blue overall, the most ardent followers of Cubism , everything showed a definite feeling for proportion, clarity, an accurate sense of form, of a more painterly kind of painting, even in the canvases of second-rate artists.

    Artist   Blue   Paris  
    "Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922". Book by Christoph Vitali, p. 29, 1991.
  • It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

    Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2012). “Reminiscences”, p.13, Cambridge University Press
  • Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

    Junk   Yards   Window  
    Song: Junk, Album: McCartney
  • The eyes are the windows to the soul

    Hilary Duff (2011). “Elixir”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
  • Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.

    Window   Leap   Shops  
    "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.
  • 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  
  • I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.

    Life   Ambition   Lakes  
    William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.139, Simon and Schuster
  • Beauty itself soon fades, and when a woman has beauty and nothing else, well, it's like putting all the goods in the shop window, isn't it? And the moment she loses her good looks-poor creature! what is she? Just a mere bit of faded finery to be thrown aside.

    Henry Arthur Jones (1915). “The Theatre of Ideas, a Burlesque Allegory, and Three One-act Plays: The Goal, Her Tongue, Grace Mary”
  • Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.

    Happiness   Men   Thrill  
    Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.3, A&C Black
  • When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.

    Happiness   Joy   Able  
  • I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.

    Sweet   Thinking   Noses  
    'Ego Dominus Tuus' (referring to Keats)
  • You shouldn't be pressured into trying to be thin by the fashion industry, because they only want models that are like human mannequins. They know that if we see an outfit on a mannequin in a shop window we will love it and want to buy it whatever size we are. That's why they have size zero models - they want to sell clothes. But you have to remember that it's not practical or possible for an everyday woman to look like that. Being size zero is a career in itself so we shouldn't try and be like them. It's not realistic and it's not healthy.

    Fashion   Zero   Careers  
  • I always loved twilight: it was the only time of day I had the feeling that something important could happen. All things were more beautiful bathed in twilight, all streets, all squares, and all the people walking through them; I even had the feeling that I was a handsome young man, and I liked looking at myself in the mirror, watching myself in the shop windows as I strode along, and even when I touched my face, I felt no wrinkles at my mouth or forehead.

    Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The Japanese are virtuosos. They make just the little accent that makes all the difference. So much there is so beautiful - just a shop window display is a work of art. Just the way they make all kinds of things out of bamboo that are so ingenious. Just the way this little bamboo drain or latch is so beautiful. The masonry around the streams to hold the bank are beautiful - and not all one kind and not just cement.

    Source: www.metropolismag.com
  • All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!

    George Eliot (1955). “The George Eliot Letters: 1874-1877”
  • What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads Pressing Done Here. If you brought your clothes in to be pressed, you would be fooled: for the sign is only for sale.

    Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”
  • I don't really hang out with people. I like to be by myself. In fact, I've been arrested a few times because I like to walk around at two or three in the morning, looking at shop windows. The cops take me to the station and fingerprint me. But I wouldn't call that hanging out.

    Morning   Two   People  
    "Emo Philips" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.
  • I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

    People   Giving   Defense  
    Franz Kafka (2009). “The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories”, p.35, Schocken
  • If you and I took a walk down a shopping street in Jo'burg or Cape Town or London, we see two guys looking in a shop window, we think, "Oh, they're wondering what they're going to buy." A cop looks at them and thinks, "Why are they standing there? Are they doing a drug deal? Are they going to mug someone? Are they going to rob the shop?"

    Thinking   Shopping   Two  
    Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za
  • My parents never mentioned anything about fashion in our household, instead we used to talk about literature, theatre, and arts...this is why I have kept a real relation with the Art world, by putting books from the beginning in my shops' windows.

    Fashion   Art   Real  
    Source: www.stilorama.com
  • When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.

    Business   Men   Religion  
    Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1427, Barbour Publishing
  • 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.

    Change   Brother   Moving  
    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat-glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?

  • No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shop window to display one's talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.

    Prayer   Past   Men  
  • She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.

    Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.74, Faber & Faber
  • You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.75, Harvard University Press
  • For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

    Book   Years   Twenties  
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