Top 100 Quotes About Staples
#1. Staples are only good if they truly suit our lifestyle.
Tim Gunn
#2. I never dreamed that I would hear 10,000 people screaming when I stepped out onto a stage. Well, that's not entirely true. I dreamed about it but in a performing-on-the-stage-at-Staples-Center-or-Madison-Square-Garden context. But never in a I'm-in-a-movie-that-hasn't-even-come-out-yet one.
Jacqueline Emerson
#3. Humor and Health,
The staples of wealth.
S Austin
#4. I used to work for the Clippers - I sold tickets - so I was in the Staples Center all the time. I'm a big Clippers fan.
Charles Michael Davis
#5. After becoming pregnant, I had to makeover my pantry just a little to make the proper adjustments to support the baby. I've found some staples that will stick around after the baby is here, too.
Holly Madison
#6. A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist.
Desiderius Erasmus
#7. One of the staples of discussion about basic aesthetic principles is that art has to exist for its own self and cannot be prostituted to advance any particular cause or point of view. Perfect nonsense, of course, but that doesn't keep it from being repeated ad nauseam.
Douglas Wilson
#8. I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even, I suddenly remembered, contained no staples. Well, strike that line of defense.
Charlaine Harris
#9. I write the book for one person - for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she'll react to things and manipulating her into drawing perverse, horrific things. It's a really weird job but I enjoy it.
Brian K. Vaughan
#10. The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all ... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.
Graham Hill
#11. I don't think people have made staples by hand since the fifteenth century.
Lemony Snicket
#12. Getting away from a white or light colored tuxedo shirt is always a little dangerous. Certain staples shouldn't be mixed with. Light pink or blue is not bad, but again, you're just breaking from a classic.
Paul Feig
#13. Most of us cannot afford to store a year's supply of luxury items, but find it more practical to store staples that might keep us from starving in case of emergency.
James E. Faust
#14. He called himself Jack, a plain handshake of a name, a far cry from the Clive Staples he had been christened, and to be Jack was the hard work of a lifetime.
Philip Zaleski
#15. Whenever someone comes up to me and says, 'I'm having trouble shopping.' I tell them to pull out their 10 favorite, most-worn pieces, then build a wardrobe around them. Those staples are going to be different for everybody.
Lauren Conrad
#16. Oh, man, I love the Staple Singers. I love Pop Staples' guitar playing, too. He's one of my favorite guitar players.
Brittany Howard
#17. We all know that much of what we hear in life is not really so. Canned laughter and 'sweetened' applause have been TV staples for decades, and all the slamming doors, breaking glass and squealing tires you hear in movies are sound effects.
Serge Schmemann
#18. In old stapled problems, you can see the TB vaccine marks in the upper left corner where the staples have been removed and replaced, as the problem - even the staple holes of the problem - was copied and sent on to other departments for further action, copying, and stapling.
Nicholson Baker
#19. David Nelson says that one of the staples of his diet during this era was ketchup sandwiches
Blair Jackson
#20. Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples.
Graham Chapman
#21. As an African American actress, there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.
Monique Coleman
#22. I mean that'd be great if we could continue to be staples of alt-rock radio. I don't take that for granted.
Davey Havok
#23. It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.
Ruth Ozeki
#24. As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
Natasha Lyonne
#25. Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I'm going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.
Kobe Bryant
#26. I usually build my collections on colors and on staples, so when you buy pieces, you are really adding to your wardrobe, and you're getting a new color palette to play with. The clothes are timeless and modern at the same time.
L'Wren Scott
#27. I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.
Eric Stoltz
#28. I brought my daughters actually to Staples Center to watch me live in the ring - to watch their mother compete in the ring. It was a very proud moment for me.
Stephanie McMahon
#29. Is it to be expected that the Southern States will deliver themselves bound hand and foot to the Eastern States? A few rich merchants in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York could thereby monopolise the staples of the Southern States and reduce their value.
George Mason
#30. The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#31. Bob Geldof feels the big picture all the time, even in the smallest argument when someone's saying, 'Well, no, you've got to have three staples in the program, not just two,' Bob feels people dying somewhere.
Richard Curtis
#32. I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got.
Heidi Klum
#33. the prices seem to reflect how far Staples believes the user lives from a competitor's store. Staples confirmed that it varies prices by a number of factors but declined to be specific.
Julia Angwin
#34. Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape.
Arthur Smith
#35. It's a blessing to be a part of television shows that were, to a certain extent, staples in a lot of people's lives and as far as their entertainment lives.
Kim Fields
#36. What I think happened to the new arenas is that you need some memories. I remember going when the Staples Center first opened and it was like, 'OK,' but a couple championships later, and all of a sudden it becomes your house. You have to stake claim to it.
Kevin Connolly
#37. The DC Universe has the best villains in fiction, right? I don't think there's any group of villains collectively or anywhere else that come close to DC's. Joker, Cat Woman, Lex Luthor, are all staples. A lot of the comic book icons are fiction icons.
Geoff Johns
#38. The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as result of a global oversupply of grain staples.
Michel Chossudovsky
#39. There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
Talib Kweli
#40. Got staples on my dick. Why? Fucking centerfolds.
Kanye West
#41. It's quite amazing to me, as I walk around a supermarket or a health food shop, to observe the number of Fairtrade choices: not just staples such as coffee, tea, fresh fruits and rice, but cocoa and chocolate, herbs and spices, honey, ice cream, and jams.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
#42. I was asked to sing with Mavis Staples on a gospel compilation called 'Oh Happy Day.' And, you know, other than being totally intimidated at the prospect of singing with Mavis, I was honored. I don't really have much of a background in gospel music.
Patty Griffin
#43. In the former Soviet republics, there are three staples of life: vodka, chocolate, and corruption. I know someone who once survived in Uzbekistan for two weeks solely on these three items.
Eric Weiner
#44. I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.
Mavis Staples
#45. There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.
Mavis Staples
#46. We enjoyed the fact that we were called to the folk festivals and we got to know Joan Baez, Dylan. We were singing strictly gospel, but then after we started hearing songs that they would sing, we saw that those songs were very fitting for us because they were singing the truth, and truth is gospel.
Mavis Staples
#47. Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
Vince Staples
#48. I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.
Mavis Staples
#49. I'm mad emotional. But my emotions are - I don't really get just like sad, I get hyper, and I be like mad, and I get hungry - that's like my main emotion.
Vince Staples
#50. I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.
Mavis Staples
#51. At a very young age, I could look at people and tell that everyone was, in a sense, worthless in their own mind. And you couldn't trust anyone. No one was good.
Vince Staples
#52. I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don't know. I love a challenge.
Mavis Staples
#53. Where I come from, there's no common enemy, there's no "why." There's no, "I hate white people."
Vince Staples
#54. I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.
Mavis Staples
#55. You can please some of the people some of the time, others you can please once in a while and still others you can't please any of the time, but if you only strive to please yourself all of the time, you have and are a problem.
Belva Rae Staples
#56. Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
Vince Staples
#57. Sprite really does taste different everywhere! That's like a fact. Because of certain regulations, you can only put so many sugars ...
Vince Staples
#59. You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
Al Yankovic
#60. I don't have a message. You already have all these people telling you how to live, who to be, what to wear, what to drive, what drugs to do - I just want people to see what I see.
Vince Staples
#62. I have to pinch myself sometimes. It's unbelievable, but it's not. Because I know that this would not be happening if it hadn't been for Dr. Martin Luther King.
Mavis Staples
#63. Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
Vince Staples
#64. You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
Vince Staples
#65. BECAUSE CATHOLICISM IS TRUE, The papacy was established by Christ, has endured, and retains the authority entrusted to it by Christ, even to this day.
Tim Staples
#66. So many things come from people's parents lying to them about the truth about things. I feel like, once those ideas die with people, we'll be good in a couple of generations.
Vince Staples
#67. If something doesn't start out right, it won't end up right.
J.J. Staples
#68. My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.
Vince Staples
#69. It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore!
Vince Staples
#70. I could care less about the radio or the TV or album sales. I want that connection with people because when I'm able to walk down the street, I want them to feel like I've done something for them and helped their life because I've never felt that way about a musician.
Vince Staples
#71. Rappers kinda look stupid sometimes. Most of the time. I'm pretty sure I look stupid too a lot.
Vince Staples
#72. I hate when a show has an age limit. Like a little tiny child is standing outside, like, 'Hey, I wanted to go but I couldn't.' That sucks.
Vince Staples
#73. Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.
Vince Staples
#74. I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.
Mavis Staples
#76. It's been an amazing life. It's really just been the most magical thing for me - and I have these musical friends from all walks of life.
Mavis Staples
#77. I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
C.S. Lewis
#78. Rice is the best, the most nutritive and unquestionably the most widespread staple in the world.
Auguste Escoffier
#79. My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.
Mavis Staples
#80. High-end boutiques aren't putting small staple stores out of business. What's putting small staple stores out of business is formula retail.
Chicken John
#81. If your children don't fight, they won't love each other when they get older! It's a common thing.
Vince Staples
#82. The work is the understanding of the people that you're speaking for. The further you get away from that, the further you are from the work.
Vince Staples
#83. The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.
Mavis Staples
#84. If you don't get out among the people, how are you going to know what they need to hear about?
Mavis Staples
#85. If you hit a kangaroo in the street and you have to pull out on the side of the road, it can get back up and murder you.
Vince Staples
#86. I've got to sing for Pops; I've got to keep my father's legacy alive because he started all of this. So I started calling people, and nobody would give me a chance, but I didn't let that stop me. I took money out the bank and I started making me a record, and I did it in this guy's basement.
Mavis Staples
#87. My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir.
Mavis Staples
#88. The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.
Vince Staples
#89. Pops, he was a singer's singer. I loved to hear my father sing. He just was so laid-back and cool. I always wished I could sing like Pops.
Mavis Staples
#90. never use a halogen light bulb, as it could start a fire.
Jonny Staples
#91. I would for sure do a thousand dollar meet and greet because literally every single person knows where I live.
Vince Staples
#92. One day, when I was about eight years old, some kids pushed me on stage at school during a talent show because they knew I could sing.
Mavis Staples
#93. I just had a wonderful life, and I couldn't ask for anything else.
Mavis Staples
#94. When I come out of my dressing room, I go to my heart and say a little prayer and go out on stage. There I am, coming to lift you up and to motivate you. I want to bring joy. It's gospel, and gospel is the truth. It's what I do. I'm going to bring you the truth and lift up your spirit.
Mavis Staples
#95. Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.
Vince Staples
#96. Pops always taught us that family is the strongest unit in the world. If you stick with your family, nobody can break you, nobody can harm you. You'll always have your family.
Mavis Staples
#97. There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy.
Mavis Staples
#98. You'll never get anything done by sitting on your hands or by wringing them. Try getting them dirty for a change and you'll be surprised by how much you can accomplish.
Belva Rae Staples
#99. What's important to me is people just being people.
Vince Staples
#100. It really hurts my feelings when people are mean to old people, or when people yell at their little kids. Just ask them what's wrong, bro. I think we all just need to be nicer.
Vince Staples
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