Emporium Quotes

#1. Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!

George Bailey

#2. Good titles are hard, people. Just ask the guy who came up with 'Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium.'

Steve Hockensmith

#3. Overheard at O'Banion's Beer Emporium: "Pardon me, darlin', but I'm writin' a telephone book. C'n I have yer number?

Henry D. Spalding

#4. Wainwright's Fruit Emporium. Mr Wainwright is not able to take calls at this time since he is not right in the head and thinks he is a cucumber. Thank you for calling.

Douglas Adams

#5. Thanks to the unprecedented reach of British navigation, London in the early 18th century was not just the emporium of the world, it was the first place in which it was possible to assemble artifacts from around the world and allow people to study them.

Neil MacGregor

#6. In Boffo's Novelty and Joke Emporium in Ankh-Morpork, all the whoopee cushions trumpeted in a doleful harmony;

Terry Pratchett

#7. Nowdays, Rosie the Rivetere was a former soccer mom who had just opened her own catering business when Last Night came down and her husband and kids were eaten by a parking attendant at the local megamall's discount- appliance emporium.

Colson Whitehead

#8. Boy," said the old man at last, "in five years, how would you like a job selling shoes in this emporium?"
"Gosh, thanks, Mr. Sanderson, but I don't know what I'm going to be yet."
"Anything you want to be son," said the old man, "you'll be. No one will ever stop you.

Ray Bradbury

#9. I used to think those were the barrio rules, Latinos and blacks in, whites out - a place we down cats weren't supposed to go. But love teaches you. Clears your head of any rules.

Junot Diaz

#10. Your mother may not speak to you if you do not marry him, but I will not speak to you if you do.

Jane Austen

#11. Hand that on parting squeezes your shoulder, salutes the small of your back.

Joan Didion

#12. As for my dignity ... the hell with my dignity. I will get along alright in this world. I don't have to be dignified, professional.

Milton H. Erickson

#13. Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.

Randy Castillo

#14. We repress the things we're scared of, but if we just look at and embrace the things we're scared of, it's a much fuller, richer life that's also not as scary.

Gary Ross

#15. We need to pay attention with a particular attitude: one of openness, curiosity, and receptiveness.

Russ Harris

#16. I sat on the kitchen stool long enough

James Patterson

#17. I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters.

Paul Fry

#18. I'm a Sagittarian, see, I can't be fenced in. I been living in Las Vegas, greatest city in the world. I look out my window for 100 miles. In Vegas, there's nothing to do but gamble, drink or have sex. I have two of 'em.

Redd Foxx

#19. So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow.

Sonia Johnson

#20. President Obama contends that charges he is "not really an American" have been trumped up by you-know-who.

Michael R. Burch

#21. It's like communes - people with nothing are always willing to share.

Orson Scott Card