Famous quotes containing the words gibson, custom and/or shop:
“Here [in London, history] ... seemed the very fabric of things, as if the city were a single growth of stone and brick, uncounted strata of message and meaning, age upon age, generated over the centuries to the dictates of some now all-but-unreadable DNA of commerce and empire.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“Custom calls me tot.
What custom wills, in all things should we dot,
The dust on antique time would lie unswept,
And mountainous error be too highly heaped
For truth to oerpeer.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“A good customer should not change his shop, nor a good shop change its customers.”
—Chinese proverb.