F W Woolworth Quotes

#1. Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

Aneurin Bevan

#2. But you're out of another world old kid ... You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment made of cutglass and cherry blossoms.

John Dos Passos

#3. It's not just about losing the weight, it's about losing the lifestyle and mindset that got you there. -Steve Maraboli

Brian Mills

#4. The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.

Rachel Cusk

#5. He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.

Neil Gaiman

#6. When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.

Arthur Koestler

#7. Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

Andrew Sullivan

#8. I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Frank Winfield Woolworth

#9. The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660 to 1783,

Scott Miller

#10. When I was 13, I forged my date of birth so that I could get a Saturday job at Woolworth's, earning £1 3s 6d for the day. But my real ambition was to do something in the music world - or, at least, close to it.

Richard Desmond

#11. I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.

Karl Rove

#12. We still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

Richard Hell

#13. In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.

Frederick Lenz

#14. All people are most credulous when they are most happy.

Walter Bagehot

#15. All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.

Jeff Bezos

#16. Simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives;

Henry David Thoreau

#17. It's nice, when the lights come up at the end of the movie, to not be like, "What did I just watch?"

Jon Hamm

#18. Used to Sears, JC Penney, and Woolworth's, Birmingham's stores sounded foreign: Gucci, Jacobson's, and Dittrich Furs. Underground parking kept the shoppers flawlessly coifed and dry - a scene from a Hollywood movie.

Claudia Whitsitt

#19. All I know is what's past is past, and what's ahead is ahead. The second is ka, and takes care of itself.

Stephen King

#20. Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can.

Frank Winfield Woolworth

#21. When the Woolworth's-Hot-Fudge-Sundae switch goes on, then I know I really have something.

Andy Warhol