Quotes About Selfridges

#1. As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the perfume department.

Zoe Tapper

#2. Selfridges' Christmas hot list includes faux fur animal hats by Merrimaking, currently enjoying a cult status in Japan and amongst festival goers.

Geraldine James

#3. Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States.

Sara Blakely

#4. Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.

John Mortimer

#5. Women and elephants never forget an injury.

Hector Hugh Munro

#6. That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning.

James Herriot

#7. I like sporks. They're like spoons, but you can poke people with them.

Ed Robertson

#8. Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

Florence Nightingale

#9. If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.

Lewis Black

#10. People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice.

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#11. I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.

Maureen Johnson

#12. When you look at the sky, you must know that you look at the cosmic factory which enabled you to exist as a live being!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.

William Baldwin

#14. The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose
only aim is to
see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors

Julia Quinn

#15. Will we have bodyguards?"
"We're not quite set up for that. But with all these mothers, you don't need them.

Joan Bauer

#16. Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

Bob Cousy