Top 100 Quotes About Stores
#1. A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.
Anna Quindlen
#2. I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.
Philip Green
#3. Hugs should be available at the medical stores 24/7. Sometimes, they are the best healers for almost everything.
Minhal Mehdi
#4. I honestly kind of hate shopping. My favorite places to shop are rich old lady consignment stores.
Lykke Li
#5. The windows of army surplus stores constituted hymns to male powerlessness.
William Gibson
#6. If you want to get things you can't buy in a store, you have to do things never thought of before.
Dr. Seuss
#7. I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.
Don McLean
#8. Around this world will I be enough?
From the liquor stores, to the train stop floors, your filthy room, your drama blues
I am nothing if I'm not with you.
Sara Quin
#9. My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.
Max Barry
#10. Inherently, department stores have significant advantages compared to all other retailers.
Ron Johnson
#11. I'm trying to build a brand, so I can sell Keyshawn Johnson products in stores. You know, paint, rugs, carpet, drapery, fabrics, blankets, towels, hardware, plates.
Keyshawn Johnson
#12. At several such places we landed, but always found the ascent to the interior so covered with large loose rocks that it would have been impossible to have disembarked stores or stock on any.
George Grey
#13. My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.
Frank Gehry
#14. We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
Adam Sedgwick
#15. Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.
Rebecca Solnit
#16. Are you better off than you were four years ago? One of my favorite quotes Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores ... Is there more or less unemployment?
Ronald Reagan
#17. The thing about New York is it's like London: you want to go to the boutique places. You can go to the big department stores - Barney's, Bloomingdales and all that stuff - but I like the little stores.
Bryan Greenberg
#18. Look at music for what it's worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going to record stores. But in America, it's all about digital. The game is breaking down. But, look at me, you need to know how to play the game the right way.
Snoop Dogg
#19. Began to read a piece on how a high street chain of stores had banned Cliff Richard's Christmas songs.
Robert Galbraith
#20. I grew up in the Bronx. I used to remember going to all these fancy stores in Manhattan to run errands or whatever, and I felt intimidated, like they did not talk to me because I was from the Bronx. I never want anyone to be intimidated by fashion. Fashion is fun or, at least, should be.
Mickey Drexler
#21. I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.
Philip Green
#22. Begum Para, did I say? Not the Begum Para? The saucy heroine of the silver screen? And why not? This remarkable lady had dropped in from Pakistan to play the part of my grandmother in Shubhadarshini's serial Ek Tha Rusty, based on stores of my childhood.
Ruskin Bond
#23. You know how sometimes department stores have these things where, if you win, you get 10 minutes to go in and take anything you want from the store? That's basically what I'm doing. I'm running in and just trying to grab as many characters as possible before they pull the plug on me.
Ryan Gosling
#24. We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
Quincy Jones
#25. An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which company and which product shall be the leader today and which shall lead tomorrow.
Bruce Barton
#26. I grew up, really, in the days before air conditioning. So I can remember what it was like to be really hot, for instance, and I can remember what it was like when your barber shop and your local stores weren't air conditioned, so it was hot when you went in them and they propped the doors open.
Bill Bryson
#27. By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded.
Eric Schmidt
#28. The sages have a hundred maps to give
That trace their crawling cosmos like a tree
They rattle reason out through many a sieve
That stores the sand but lets the gold go free
And all these things are less than dust to me
Because my name is Lazarus and I live.
G.K. Chesterton
#29. Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.
David Frum
#30. My gentle Reader, I perceive / How patiently you've waited, / And now I fear that you expect / Some tale will be related. / O Reader! had you in your mind / Such stores as silent thought can bring, / O gentle Reader! you would find / A tale in every thing.
William Wordsworth
#31. The plain white vinegar sold in gallon jugs in stores is particularly unsuitable for a health treatment, since it is made from petroleum and is completely synthetic.
Kim DeWalt
#32. We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America.
Howard Schultz
#33. I don't have a good attention span and can't spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.
Beth Ditto
#34. I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction.
Kenneth Adelman
#35. Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
Robert Burton
#36. My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
Fran Lebowitz
#37. But come on, like she hadn't seen every aisle in his grocery store already?
J.R. Ward
#38. I don't care how much it costs or who it's by as long as it fits me. I love shopping, but I go to the same stores I've always gone to: Guess, Bebe, Coach. I can't really skip out of that realm.
JWoww
#39. It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.
Norah Jones
#40. Fashion brands looking for explosive growth go the wholesale route, to get their products into stores, but then they end up relying on those sales.
Chad Hurley
#41. I'll own up: I think it is a dream, Miss Verena. But a man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat: he stores up a lot of poison.
Truman Capote
#42. Without fanfare, Starbucks was also going to open two coffee shops in Seattle that were not like any of our existing stores. Each would serve Starbucks coffee but be unique
Howard Schultz
#43. Record stores are great because it's good to physically get your hands on the music instead of downloading. It's always better to get the artwork too.
Nathan Followill
#45. I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a city such as San Francisco.
Chicken John
#46. L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time.
Jay Leno
#47. Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst's job.
Peter Lynch
#48. The first stage of camping always involves a trip to an outdoor equipment store like REI. These stores are well known for their abundance of white customers and their extensive inventory of things for white people to buy and only use once.
Christian Lander
#49. Standing at this liquor store, whiskey coming through my pores, feeling like I run this whole block
Bruno Mars
#50. One of the most important things we do is we've organized our stores and our workforce into teams.
John Mackey
#51. The stores along Hollywood Boulevard were already beginning to fill up with overpriced Christmas junk, and the daily papers were beginning to scream about how terrible- it would be if you didn't get your Christmas shopping done early.
Raymond Chandler
#52. CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of sale on to memory sticks, and sell you one if you forgot your own.
Richard Stallman
#53. I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.
Warren Buffett
#54. We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of ancestral cells and the linking of ancestral organisms in symbiosis. Our genomes are catalogues of instructions from all kinds of sources in nature, filed for all kinds of contingencies.
Lewis Thomas
#55. I had no idea what I was gonna do after I got my degree in philosophy in 1940. But what I did know was at that time, if you were a Chinese-American, even department stores wouldn't hire you. They'd come right out and say, 'We don't hire Orientals.'
Grace Lee Boggs
#56. Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.
David Mitchell
#57. Women in stores will pull their children away from me sometimes so they won't catch the crazy Creed virus. Other folks are disappointed that I'm not that guy in person.
Creed Bratton
#58. People see you on screen and they like you, but they never really get a chance to meet you. When you're doing music, you know you have to go sit at in-stores, and you're actually in the street, so there's more of a hands-on kind of thing.
Andre Benjamin
#59. How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts.
Will.i.am
#60. If you look at coffee, tea, food and juice, we think there are inherent opportunities. If you look at health bars or grab-and-go products that are in our stores, we think we can significantly enhance them and make them more widely available.
Howard Schultz
#61. If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.
Will.i.am
#62. I've made up so many stores about my name, I can't remember.
Joaquin Phoenix
#63. Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive
Chuck Berry
#64. It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally unequal to the consideration of any subject more psychological than gout, rum, and purser's stores.
Charles Dickens
#65. As a kid, I loved going to lots of thrift stores with my parents. There was a period where I thought it was embarrassing, and then I started to get older - I realized they were really cool.
Tessa Thompson
#67. Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere.
Inga Muscio
#68. I am something of an aficionado of thrift stores. In my youth, I regularly searched their shelves for old books.
Michael Dirda
#69. They [Marvel] don't tell you. You never know with them. They have their world, but they don't like to spoil anything, so nobody knows until it's set in stone. You don't know. I actually don't know what they have in store for Wilson Fisk, or my Wilson Fisk, I should say.
Vincent D'Onofrio
#70. The hand that stocks the drug stores rules the world. Let us start our Republic, with a chain of drug stores, a chain of grocery stores, a chain of gas chambers, and a national game. After that we can write our Constitution.
Kurt Vonnegut
#71. Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.
Scott Ian
#72. When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.
Andy Warhol
#73. But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.
Samantha Mumba
#74. You want each city to be different, not just see the same shopping malls and stores wherever you go. That's not healthy.
Greg Lake
#75. Anyone who thinks designers don't talk to editors, and editors don't talk to stores doesn't know what's happening ... It's called crossover, sampling all references in music, art and fashion.
Marc Jacobs
#76. When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it.
Dominic Monaghan
#77. And we built up between ourselves a pathetic sort of domesticity that we both felt need of. We began tasting our food again, making little discoveries in grocery stores, bringing them home to share. When strawberries came in season, I remember, Kraft and I whooped it up as though Jesus had returned.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#78. Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
Erma Bombeck
#79. So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher.
Jim Cantalupo
#80. Everywhere she looked, she saw bright colors: on the drab, gray concrete apartments, on the tin-roofed, open-fronted stores, in the muddy water flowing in the gutters. It was as though a rainbow had melted into her eyes. Rasheed
Khaled Hosseini
#81. I just thought that I was going to get to sing for a living and I wouldn't have to go to work in the department store or whatever else you did if you were a woman in those days.
Linda Ronstadt
#83. Just off one of the most congested traffic corridors in Los Angeles, tiled with a mosaic of fast-food chains, nail salons, and dollar stores, lies a little green oasis: the Los Angeles Eco-Village (LAEV).
Juliana Birnbaum Fox
#84. Before the Internet, we were in a different sort of dark age. We had to wait to hear news on TV at night or in print the next day. We had to go to record stores to find new music. Cocktail party debates couldn't be settled on the spot.
Marvin Ammori
#85. 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.
Alfonso Cuaron
#86. The earth yields up her stores, of every ill
The instigators; iron, foe to man,
And gold, than iron deadlier.
Ovid
#87. Our limbic system sets the mind's emotional tone and stores our highly charged emotional memories.
Tian Dayton
#88. Television drives me crazy sometimes because everybody is so good-looking, and yet you walk through the aisles of the grocery stores, and nobody looks like that.
Donald Miller
#89. If stores and vendors know there is a demand for organic products, they will make them. The more they make, the more the cost comes down.
Constance Marie
#90. I want to put concepts in front of people that make them laugh or smile or even hate what I do. I'm not interested in just putting clothes in stores.
Thom Browne
#91. You can only analyze the data you
have. Be strategic about what to
gather and how to store it
Marie Curie
#92. Through the windshield I
saw the mark of these
ghettos - the abundance of
beauty shops, churches,
liquor stores, and
crumbling housing - and I
felt the old fear. Through
the windshield I saw the
rain coming down in
sheets.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#93. To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.
Edward Gibbon
#94. I love a hotel that offers Wi-Fi Internet access, especially if it's free. But I never access sensitive information, like my bank account or an online shopping site that stores my credit card information, on a public Wi-Fi connection.
Jean Chatzky
#95. While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
Larry Bird
#96. You can't get around the image of people shooting at people toprotect their stores and it working. This is damaging to the [guncontrol] movement.
Josh Sugarmann
#97. I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn't trouble me at all.
Steve Madden
#98. There's nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
Paul McCartney
#99. It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.
Tom Bodett
#100. So cotton growers, siphoning from the Ogallala, get three billion dollars a year in taxpayer money for fiber that is shipped to China, where it is used to make cheap clothing sold back to American chain retail stores like Wal-Mart.
Timothy Egan
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