General Store Sayings

#1. THE BLUE GLACIER SALOON was part general store, part restaurant, part bar. It was my fantasy come true, a Stuckey's that served shots.

Molly Harper

#2. I went to a general store, but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

Steven Wright

#3. I went into a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically.

Steven Wright

#4. I grew up in rural Arizona. My dad ran a general store.

Ann Kirkpatrick

#5. The Deering General Store? Look at it. That's not a place to get a battery. That's a place to lose your wallet. Or your virginity.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. mountain is a general store. The men give you poles and a lunch and directions. They always

Gertrude Chandler Warner

#7. My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My dad's family had a general store, which I never saw. My grandparents on his side had already died before I started noticing things.

Kary Mullis

#8. Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely.

Padma Lakshmi

#9. The only thing I ever saw that came close to Objective Journalism was a closed-circuit TV setup that watched shoplifters in the General Store at Woody Creek, Colorado.

Hunter S. Thompson

#10. Hillary's trying to appear downhome. Earlier today she was sitting on the front porch of a general store whittling a pantsuit.

David Letterman

#11. When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

Dinah Shore

#12. I was raised by my grandparents, who had a little general store. My grandmother, Marion Dunham Bowman, was a graduate of Albany Law School. Although she never did practice law, she kept the house filled with books. It's because of her that I was always reading.

Joseph Bruchac

#13. Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.

Lady Bird Johnson

#14. I could live here," Del said. "No, you couldn't. You'd turn into a coot and hang out at the general store, with your fly down," Lucas said. "You'd be known for goosing middle-aged women. You'd be the town embarrassment.

John Sandford

#15. Whatever people are doing, they're probably going to be doing it five years from now. You have your banker, your general store runner, the principal of the school, and things of that sort. It's nice to see that, and to get old with other people.

Valerie June

#16. I'll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mother needed a fourth at meals.

Beatrice Lillie

#17. When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.

Louis Sullivan

#18. I grew up in society when lots of things were hidden, and they were not hidden just one way, but it was very complicated.

Peter Sis

#19. Health is wealth but wealth is not health

Osunsakin Adewale

#20. If I am not working, I won't wear makeup and I will wear flats.

Michelle Ryan

#21. A person with the best strategy never gets angry.

Debasish Mridha

#22. 15. Hence a wise general makes a point of foraging on the enemy. One cartload of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to twenty of one's own, and likewise a single picul of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one's own store.

Sun Tzu

#23. I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

Dorothea Lange

#24. I love European films in general. If I were to go to the movie store or something, that's what I like to see.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

#25. Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.

Auguste Comte

#26. You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it.

Steve Martin

#27. In general design and outline it looked the standard sort of tower for imprisoning princesses in; it was mainly used to store old furniture. However,

Terry Pratchett

#28. In general, it should be in our interest to get organizations out of military activity and into politics.

Jonas Gahr Store

#29. Bring your kids along next time you go to the grocery store and ask them to help find the price per unit for the general grocery items. By comparing brands and looking for the best prices, kids will get in the habit of looking for deals and understand the value of the dollar.

Alexa Von Tobel

#30. The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that gives rise to them.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#31. Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

Thomas Carlyle

#32. A good artist should laugh often!

Francois Place

#33. I work through the actors, and the more successful I am, the less my work is apparent.

George Cukor