Dry Goods Quotes

#1. One doesn't know, necessarily, when one meets the trip-action person in one's life. A good teacher, a flirt behind the dry-goods counter, a petty thief wielding a knife. Any one of a thousand chance encounters might be the chance of a lifetime. Or a deathtime.

Gregory Maguire

#2. What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.
American novels, answered Lord Henry.

Oscar Wilde

#3. a cloudy cocktail called Smoke, made by mixing water and fuel alcohol. Smoke joints were tucked into the back of paint stores, drugstores, and markets, among the dry goods and the stacked cans.

Deborah Blum

#4. Dry-goods! What are American dry-goods?" asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. "American novels," answered Lord Henry, helping himself to some quail.

Oscar Wilde

#5. The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the electrons sitting around on dry goods boxes at every corner [viz. the cubic atom], ready to shake hands with, or hold on to similar loafer electrons in other atoms.

Robert Andrews Millikan

#6. A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.

Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

#7. In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.

Stephen Bayley

#8. I am told, on excellent authority, that her father keeps an American dry-goods store," said Sir Thomas Burdon,

Oscar Wilde

#9. It's always my goal to raise the bar with each record I put out.

Lindi Ortega

#10. She didn't want to be one of those girls who said the exact opposite of what she meant, but still - it would have been nice to see Easy try.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#11. Creation unfolds, around us, despite us and through us, at the speed of days and nights, and we like to call it love

David Mitchell

#12. It was a life that had left him rich in experience, but poor in goods of the world. The experience was the hard-fisted experience of cold winters, dry ranges, and the dusty bitterness

Louis L'Amour

#13. Be a dog, but don't be a younger brother.

Proverb.

Idries Shah

#14. No one mentioned his(Bailey's) absence as if things were as they should be and always were.

Maya Angelou