Top 672 Pawn Shops Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops.

I always wear a mask if I'm going to the shops.

The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on

Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.

We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.

The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.

'Silicon Valley' is a great show. It might be the best comedy on television. And if the Academy feels I have stood out to the point of deserving an award, I won't pawn it.

When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method.

A knight ending is really a pawn ending.

I was the kid at school who wore clothes from charity shops.

I concern myself with Venezuela. However, some rightwing movements are transforming me into a pawn in the domestic politics of their countries, by making statements that are groundless.

I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.

I got the Pawnbroker of the Year award. They said I did more for the pawn business in one year than their media team, in 30 years, has been able to do.

I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn. I don't think that there is anything bad in such a feeling; no artist or musician is indifferent to the reactions of the public.

I love wandering around the vintage shops.

You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast.

The preparation for active rook play entails what is called the opening of lines, which largely depends on pawn play, especially on the proper use of levers.

I enjoy shopping at local shops which I get to know by chance.

A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.

I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.

I'm big on coffee shops. Fortunately, I live in Brooklyn where there are many to choose from.

It's funny because from the time I was a kid, I knew what I was going to do. What's even funnier is that my dad and my grandfather didn't want me to work at the pawn shop, but I was deadset on it.

A lot of people say they feel tired, and I think that's why we have a prevalence of coffee shops. I don't remember seeing coffee shops on every corner when I was growing up, so there's something going on these days. As an alternative to reaching for that 50th cup of coffee for the day, Archangel Michael is a wonderful angel to call on if you feel tired. You say, "Archangel Michael, I ask that anything draining my energy and vitality be now removed from me." It is a simple prayer. Say it, take a breath, and you will feel your energy being revived.

I wake up at 5:30 in the morning, get to the Pawn Shop at six, work out for two hours, film until seven at night.

Al Sharpton is not important. He's nothing more than a black pawn in a very sophisticated white economic chess game.

I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops.

Renzi is a pawn. Renzi is a dumb slave at the disposal of nameless people who want to control all of our lives from Brussels.

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

Belief is invisible, so there is enough space for everyone's. Except in the shops at Christmas.

Eskimos are uncivilised because they don't have any shops.

I'm not a Bal Harbour Shops kind of guy.

My grandfather was a pawnbroker, and when I was in first or second grade, my parents opened their own store. I probably learned to count by putting pawn tickets in numerical order in the back room of the shop.

Twelve years ago me and Allanah became really sick of writing pop songs, ... Eventually we dug a grave for the Thompson Twins, pushed them in there, and then moved to New Zealand. Before that I'd lived for a long time in south London where reggae was the music of the streets around me. You'd hear it booming out of people's windows and shops, and you could buy great old reggae singles for 50p (NZ1.30) in second hand shops. I'd always loved that sound, so soon after we got here I started making electronic dub records with my mate Rakai Karaitiana as International Observer.

I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops.

Education is taken for granted. Teaching shops are different from building character.

People do get out of my way when I'm walking to the shops.

I love to be close to shops as shopping is one of my biggest passions.

In Edinburgh, they've got the most insane charity shops ever.

We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.

When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack you don't worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side

More diets start in dress shops than in doctors' offices.

It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.

This sacrifice of a pawn nowadays is only played for drawing purposes. Especially against the very strongest masters it has proved to be quite useful to this end.

There are plenty of days when I would love to get in my truck, drive to work, walk behind the pawn counter and just do a regular job.

I love charity shops.

It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?

Most of those who pawn things and want to borrow money don't want to be on television. That part of my business you don't see, and I do five or 10 times as much.

I love going to coffee shops and just sitting and listening.

On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.

When you place art in the shops, it's a way to make it more accessible.

You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast

No coffee shops or fog machines required [for church].

I am a fiercely independent person, and I am no one's pawn.

I go to coffee shops for my outlet. Which is just not healthy at all.

You can spend an extraordinary amount of time raising independent money to do a movie for very little means. I've done it with 'Pawn Sacrifice.'

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.

I buy so much stuff from charity shops.

I don't go to the openings of shops or parties given by people I don't know.