Chain Stores Quotes

#1. Unless you live in Indonesia, there should be several malls within five miles of your home. It makes no difference whatsoever which one you go to: Under federal law, all malls in the United States must have the same 42 chain stores.

Dave Barry

#2. I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.

Jello Biafra

#3. On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the order of daily life, including the duties, responsibilities, obligations, and ceremonies that prompt citizens to care for each other.

James Howard Kunstler

#4. I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a city such as San Francisco.

Chicken John

#5. Oh, I know what to do when I see victuals coming toward me in little old Bagdad-on-the-Subway. I strike the asphalt three times with my forehead and get ready to spiel yarns for my supper.

O. Henry

#6. As Frederick Buechner wrote, Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.

Jeff Goins

#7. Very well, said Oak, firmly, with the bearing of one who was going to give his days and nights to Ecclesiastes for ever.

Thomas Hardy

#8. I've had recurring nightmares that I was loved for who I am ... and missed the opportunity to be a better man.

Muse

#9. I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

George McGovern

#10. Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.

Stephen A. Douglas

#11. I find books in used-book stores, chain and independent stores, on friends' shelves and being read by some woman sitting opposite me on the subway. I find books the way a cow finds a new pasture, by looking to see where the other cows are headed.

Walter Mosley

#12. I do remember my first purchase: the Partridge Family's 'Greatest Hits.' I got it for $3.99 at a failed chain of pre-Wal-Mart-type stores called Jamesway. God, I'm old.

Trent Reznor

#13. But this, too, you could say, is part of the American story, as we have always been people who move on, leaving behind wreckage and fragments in our wake.

Colin Dickey

#14. Reader, if you would joy in Christ's glory hereafter, He must be glorious in your sight now. Is He so?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. Okay, here's one. Two years ago we interviewed a man from a small town in Vermont. Great reputation in his community. Owns a chain of highly successful hardware stores in the eastern part of the state.

John Sneeden

#16. Distributers don't need massive amounts of square feet to stock digital products. Retailers don't need brick-and-mortar stores to sell them. The entire supply chain for these select items has been permanently dematerialized. The marketplace has been blown to bits.

Jay Samit

#17. Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.

John Dryden

#18. We are headed for perfect disaster..

Blake Lewis

#19. So cotton growers, siphoning from the Ogallala, get three billion dollars a year in taxpayer money for fiber that is shipped to China, where it is used to make cheap clothing sold back to American chain retail stores like Wal-Mart.

Timothy Egan

#20. The hand that stocks the drug stores rules the world. Let us start our Republic, with a chain of drug stores, a chain of grocery stores, a chain of gas chambers, and a national game. After that we can write our Constitution.

Kurt Vonnegut

#21. I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.

Philip Green

#22. Began to read a piece on how a high street chain of stores had banned Cliff Richard's Christmas songs.

Robert Galbraith