Dime Store Quotes

#1. The ski club was a frugal and intergenerational group. It gave dime-store trophies for speed and agility within categories of gender, age, and experience, and so eventually everyone got a trophy.

Meredith Marple

#2. And as I looked, it became very clear that this five-and-ten-cent ship was in some way connected with human pretensions. This suffocating interior of a dime-store ship was my own personal self; these gimcrack mobiles of tin and plastic were my personal contributions to the universe.

Aldous Huxley

#3. There were pictures on the walls, all of them dime-store prints of Jesus. In all of them Jesus had blue eyes and wore pale blue robes and had long blond hair and a neat blond beard. He looked more like a Malibu surfer than a Jew from two thousand years ago.

Lee Child

#4. My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.

Quincy Jones

#5. The whole business was like a child's toy that you could buy at the dime store, all built in this wonderful way that you could explain in Life magazine so that really a five-year-old can understand what's going on ... This was the greatest surprise for everyone.

Max Delbruck

#6. I was a child of American popular culture. All I did as a kid was what I could get at the local supermarket or the dime store. Nothing else was seen. Plus what was on television, or the movie theatre. That was it.

Robert Crumb

#7. The part about me being an 'okay sorcerer'? 'Not great'? No I believe I missed that.
-Lucas Cortez (Dime Store Magic)

Kelley Armstrong

#8. If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.

Natalie Wood

#9. And it made his heart shake to hear these things in the street or bus or dime store, the uninventable poetry, inside the pain, of what people say.

Don DeLillo

#10. TV by and large has become a dime-store business so far as creativity and talent are concerned. The half-hour and sixty-minute series rattle off the production lines like cans of beans, with an occasional dab of ham inside.

Hedda Hopper

#11. The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

Beth Henley

#12. Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

Helen Simonson

#13. When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

Wayne Dyer

#14. Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

Johnny Isakson

#15. My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.

James Earl Jones

#16. When I was 9 or 10, I had a ten-cent business: I would walk your dog for a dime, go to the store for a dime, empty your garbage for a dime - and then I could use the money to buy tricks at the magic store.

Lily Tomlin

#17. We're not naked, we're skyclad!

Kelley Armstrong

#18. I'm a big fan of 'Glee.' I think it's really smart. And I think it's well-timed. But you can't not be surprised at the reception this show's received. It's really something else.

Cory Monteith

#19. Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.

Camille Paglia

#20. Believe in the unbelievable and your belief will become believable

David Whelan

#21. I didn't trot my pain out to show around. I kept it better hidden than anyone. I did.

Sarah Dessen

#22. Now seeds are just dimes to the man in the store And the dimes are the things that he needs, And I've been to buy them in seasons before But have thought of them merely as seeds; But it flashed through my mind as I took them this time, "You purchased a miracle here for a dime."

Edgar Guest

#23. To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

Spencer W. Kimball

#24. He lives alone, no wife or children, most of his waking hours drunk. I don't want to end up like that.

Suzanne Collins

#25. It was her religion to make the best of everything.

Lyndall Gordon

#26. It is a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both.

Vance Havner