Hardware Store Quotes

#1. I get double-takes at the hardware store. I've had people say, 'I didn't know you did this.' With a celebrity, if folks don't see you, they think all you do is stay in the house.

Billy Williams

#2. Honestly, if you're looking for love and you're not too choosy, hang around a hardware store fingering screws.

Marian Keyes

#3. Brushes are crucial for applying glazes, sauces, and oils. The pastry brushes that you find in homestores can be pricey so pay a visit to your local hardware store and pick up a few paint brushes which are less expensive and work equally as well.

Bobby Flay

#4. Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Moliere

#5. Turns out faerie-proofing a person required a length of chain that one could find in any hardware store ...

Cherie Colyer

#6. I still climb Mount Everest just as often as I used to. I play polo just as often as I used to. But to walk down to the hardware store I find a little bit more difficult

Dr. Seuss

#7. Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

James Anthony Froude

#8. BMW models are more powerful on average than competitors. This is precisely what we are aiming for: less fuel consumption and more driving pleasure.

Norbert Reithofer

#9. Remember that rabbit-proof fencing you told me about? You get that at a hardware store or is it special order?

Elle Lothlorien

#10. I can't imagine a greater satisfaction for a father than to guide his children to find something they love, and then to watch their days be consumed by it.

Garry Fitchett

#11. In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

Kary Mullis

#12. Today look in the mirror and say 10 positive things about yourself !! Regardless of what other people say about you, your OWN words have more power over the direction of your life than other peoples. Speak positive and know that you are somebody!

Augusta DeJuan Hathaway

#13. Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is 'naive' spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of 'bonsai.'

Christopher Hitchens

#14. In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm .

Marcel Duchamp

#15. No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.

Zooey Deschanel

#16. Well did you call the hypothetical hardware store and buy a theoretical chainsaw?
Pam to Jessica, True Blood

Alan Ball

#17. Mike Toben, whose family owned the hardware store, stepped through the open doorway, eyes

Toni Anderson

#18. She did not have time to wonder about his being late. He died bent over the sidewalk sign that stood out in front of the hardware store ... He had not even had time to get into the store ...

Alice Munro

#19. The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

Kin Hubbard

#20. When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.

Elizabeth Moon

#21. LOUISE WAS SORTING nuts and bolts into metal bins at the back of the somnambulant hardware store.

John Sandford

#22. When you feel good, everything around you is good, when everything around you is great, everything makes you happy. You are loving everything that is around you, because you are loving yourself.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#23. Well what would you have us do, Jason? Swan into a hardware store without any cash and say "give us your best rack or we'll set the adorable button-nosed robots on you for bunny-boiler death by cuddling?" Jared Thomas in Red Gods Sing

Trevor Barton

#24. To jump-start our economy, we must leave cash in your hands - because if you've got money in your pocket, you'll spend it at the hardware store or the corner market, and that will drive job growth in our private sector.

Tim Walz

#25. George Clooney is on the program tonight. Next week at this time I will be in a hardware store watching them mix paint.

David Letterman

#26. Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#27. Nothing changes from one generation to another except the things seen and the things seen make that generation, that is to say nothing changes in people from one generation to another except the way of seeing and being seen.

Gertrude Stein

#28. I think people should be proud of the work they do, whatever it is. I have this other arty side that loves creating homes. I can be happy going to the hardware store.

Aida Turturro

#29. I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly.

James Badge Dale

#30. H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

Marlene Dietrich

#31. I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two.

Andy Warhol

#32. I've never been a girly-girl, never drawn to things that are fussy.

Erin Wasson

#33. Also, I have duct tape. Ordinary duct tape, like you buy at a hardware store. Turns out even NASA can't improve on duct tape.

Andy Weir

#34. Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.

Rachel Roberts

#35. Okay, our next stop is the hardware store." Marin's lips curved into a hint of a smile. "Yippee. Axes, duct tape, lamp oil, and a shovel, here we come." "It's disturbing how quickly you came up with that shopping list." And that made her grin outright. ~*~

Kate Baray

#36. My family originally lived in Brooklyn. Our first apartment was a little place above my father and uncle's hardware store in Coney Island. Now, don't get the impression that we were surrounded by merry-go-rounds, roller coasters and Ferris wheels. Nope, this was a little side street.

Gilbert Gottfried

#37. I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.

Robert B. Laughlin

#38. Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

Alfred North Whitehead

#39. I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Canterbury. But I worked part-time all the way through high school: first with a paper round, then at a fast-food outlet, a video store and a hardware store.

Eleanor Catton

#40. I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house.

Steven Wright