Quotes About Stores

#1. One of my favorite stores in the Old Town is Buchbinderei. It's this tiny stationery shop where the owner, Doris Feldman, makes these beautiful hand-bound notebooks I always buy for gifts.

Daniel Humm

#2. When I go into the stores, I pet the saddles. Until security comes and takes me away.

Jodie Foster

#3. I would love to walk into a mall and see more than two or three stores that cater to women who are a size 14 and up!

Yvette Nicole Brown

#4. Neighborhood grocery stores, coal yards, gas stations, cheap taverns, big old rundown houses, a few churches with blank embarrassed faces.

Ross Macdonald

#5. I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

Gary Larson

#6. I wanted stores that would feel like a comfortable room in my apartment, cozy and colorful and different.

Tory Burch

#7. Shopping in the right kind of stores and looking for healthier foods can be a wonderful adventure to health.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#8. Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them.

Katherine Dunn

#9. I have to say that being a vegan in 1986 or whenever was a lot different than being a vegan in 2012. You'd go to health foods stores and basically your choice was between Mung beans and nutritional yeast, and that's about it.

Moby

#10. Disperse your menacing armies! And relinguish your delicious stores of Nestle Crunch bars.

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.

Gabrielle Anwar

#12. I was looking for a job, david. I was walking up and down that bloody street and I had gone into a lot of stores. I remember I was really cold and it was really windy and then Ijust found myself standing on the top step. Then I went in, nothing special.

P.B. Morlen

#13. Record stores can't save your life. But they can give you a better one.

Nick Hornby

#14. In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has" (Proverbs 21:20, NIV).

Gary Chapman

#15. I love to shop, especially in retro stores. I have about a million pairs of old-school sports shoes like Adidas, so that's probably my biggest vice.

Carrot Top

#16. I think that there are a lot of really beautiful Christmas carols, and then sometimes there are horrible renditions of them that are played to death in malls that make me sad. I try to avoid stores where they're playing bad versions of Christmas songs on repeat.

Gillian Jacobs

#17. Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program.

Howard Schultz

#18. But trust me, if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores.

Julianne Hough

#19. What is worrisome about that is the U.S. standard of living. I think it is very difficult to envision our standard of living being preserved if we are in an economy where all people do is flip hamburgers, wait on people in stores, and sue each other. It's not much of a basis for an economy.

Wilbur Ross

#20. For Steve, less is always more, simpler is always better. Therefore, if you can build a glass box with fewer elements, it's better, it's simpler, and it's at the forefront of technology. That's where Steve likes to be, in both his products and his stores.

Walter Isaacson

#21. Vegetable box schemes, local greengrocers, farmers' markets and organic stores are a great place to source package-free foods.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#22. I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life's gifts in the very places where society mistakenly says life stores its scraps. And I am constantly amazed that in the treasure trove that surrounds me, I stand in the company of so few.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.

Steve Earle

#24. When we first started the company, I didn't have any thoughts of franchising. We just had company-owned stores.

Fred DeLuca

#25. Fit experts envision a future in which you'd carry your body scan in your cell phone or on a thumb drive, using the data to order clothes online or find them in stores. But who's going to pay for all those scanners, which cost about $35,000 each, and the staff to run them?

Virginia Postrel

#26. I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes each as on he goes, And neatly crumbles it, And turns his share of pebbly woes To stores of inner grit.

John Kendrick Bangs

#27. Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for every conceivable recording need.

Graydon Carter

#28. When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?'
when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#29. If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

Regina Brett

#30. I have a shoe habit. If I'm in New York, it's a problem because I'm walking and I have access to more stores. In L.A., it's not as bad.

Kelly Rowan

#31. It is true that there comes a time when I do literally dream about McDonald's. I dream of supermarkets and drug stores, potato chips and the Sunday morning paper.

Dian Fossey

#32. As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores put them into romance, and few have stuck them into horror. I consider all my books a mix of steampunk and urban fantasy.

Gail Carriger

#33. (On one estimate, the adult human brain stores about one billion bits - a couple of orders of magnitude less than a low-end smartphone.

Nick Bostrom

#34. Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.

Ann Patchett

#35. Everything I do is unfabulous. I'm the most normal person. I love walking everywhere and going to hole-in-the-wall places, like nail shops, because they do the best job. And I go to vintage stores rather than high-end boutiques, because I like to dress different from other people.

Ashley Benson

#36. In my world [of fashion] there's more things that kind of affect it. There's the retailers we do business with, our own stores, my merchandising team ... Everybody has opinions, and so you definitely have to filter through a lot.

Paul Weller

#37. I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to give up crisps, or make my boobs shrink for that matter. Alas, I will never fit a size zero.

Marina And The Diamonds

#38. I honestly never dreamed at the time that I would one day own the Starbucks and or be in a position where we would have more than 10,000 stores around the world. It has just been an incredible journey for all of us.

Howard Schultz

#39. I feel like I got my first real taste of Caribbean and Cuban culture while I was there. I have quite a sizeable Cuban vinyl collection from Miami thrift stores.

Ayshay

#40. Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#41. You can find Chobani in every major supermarket, in club stores, convenience stores and airports. But we're not everywhere yet. We have been struggling with keeping up with demand.

Hamdi Ulukaya

#42. I love the grime, the real-life feel of things, the mix of dollar stores and libraries, high school students and prostitutes, little kids and dealers. What I like most about my Parkdale neighbourhood is that I can disappear.

Danila Botha

#43. My dad was a produce man. He worked in grocery stores for 35 years. My mom just babysat kids and raised us. I have four sisters and one brother. I'm the baby.

Brandon Flowers

#44. It was as though the people needed the ugliness of the village, and fed on it. The houses and the stores seemed to have been set up in contemptuous haste to provide shelter for the drab and the unpleasant.

Shirley Jackson

#45. Grocery stores can't afford to pay $80 a square foot. At that rate, we are going out of business.

John Catsimatidis

#46. I never pass up the chance to shop at vintage stores.

Fei Fei Sun

#47. The main strength of the subconscious mind is that it stores all of a person's beliefs

Sunday Adelaja

#48. I know my Leader; that He is just as well as mighty; and while He has chosen a feeble instrument to perform a great task, He will, from the boundless stores of His providence, supply the inadequacy of the means to the end.

Charlotte Bronte

#49. The more books there are on shelves, the more will be sold. Once you get to the level of The Secret and have 40-100 copies in many stores, managers have almost no choice but to put them in prime real estate like front-of-store, end caps, or front window.

Timothy Ferriss

#50. Unless you live in Indonesia, there should be several malls within five miles of your home. It makes no difference whatsoever which one you go to: Under federal law, all malls in the United States must have the same 42 chain stores.

Dave Barry

#51. It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.

Carolyn McCarthy

#52. To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

Phil Collins

#53. Apple Stores produce more sales per square foot than any other retailer in the United States, including luxury stores like Tiffany.

Neel Doshi

#54. Pet stores just sell their animals.

Booboo Stewart

#55. If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.

John Turturro

#56. Wal-Mart's relationship to place has become so abstracted that the company views even its own stores through the conquistador's eyeglass. Like temporary forts built solely for purposes of territorial conquest, any one of them can be abandoned at any time.

Douglas Rushkoff

#57. My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.

Abraham A. Ribicoff

#58. Opening new stores outside of Japan is important, but training our employees is even more important.

Tadashi Yanai

#59. They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

Russel Honore

#60. I'm really trying to respond to the foods that are in the stores and just pulling the things that are the very best and cook what looks beautiful and is seasonal. That's the way to go. I love going to the grocery store and the market. None of it's drudgery for me. Washing dishes is the drudgery.

Ted Allen

#61. During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and big-box stores selling cheap goods from China, the line between national and international began to blur.

Noah Feldman

#62. It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP that you offer online, here's a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here's your live stuff streaming.

Liz Phair

#63. If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.

Howard Schultz

#64. She stores so many of his words in her head that she feels as if she has become nothing more than a book he has written.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#65. Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.

Michael Bergdahl

#66. We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health. And in the inner city, people don't have grocery stores. They have to get on a bus and take a long ride to get to a source of fresh produce.

Michael Pollan

#67. It's better for us to be in six states and have all of our stores concentrated than spread out over half the United States. We

Howard Stoeckel

#68. They buy things in ready-made stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#69. John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

Dale Carnegie

#70. Jonah Pickett was like snow days, field trips, candy stores, and Christmas Eve all blended into one big swoosh of a feeling -Felicity Pickle

Natalie Lloyd

#71. 'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music.

John Lydon

#72. I find books in used-book stores, chain and independent stores, on friends' shelves and being read by some woman sitting opposite me on the subway. I find books the way a cow finds a new pasture, by looking to see where the other cows are headed.

Walter Mosley

#73. Evening attend two "fandangos." Girls not very pretty but exceedingly graceful. [You] pay a dime for a figure and refreshments foryour doxy, who instead of eating prudently stores her cakes, etc., in a basket to be taken home for the family.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#74. Stores can be indifferent to something new.

Greg Ginn

#75. The more we build these networks and enrich our stores of memory and experience, the easier it is to learn, because what we already know serves as a foundation for forming increasingly complex thoughts.

John J. Ratey

#76. Stores don't order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don't produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they believe it's permanent.

Janet Yellen

#77. I do remember my first purchase: the Partridge Family's 'Greatest Hits.' I got it for $3.99 at a failed chain of pre-Wal-Mart-type stores called Jamesway. God, I'm old.

Trent Reznor

#78. ...all of the effort creates beauty, something so powerful that it combines all senses, all emotions, encouraging the mind and body to experience it simultaneously. Then the mind stores it all together like treasures to reopen throughout life, sometimes when you least expect it.

J.M. Miller

#79. You know, we opened a record number of stores last year.

Lee Scott

#80. Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

Ingrid Newkirk

#81. Our subconscious mind stores all our negative beliefs, complexes and behavioral patterns

Sunday Adelaja

#82. I started getting orders from some of the leading stores Fred Segal, Bergdorf Goodman. I realized then that my bags were being noticed by the fashion world.

Kate Spade

#83. It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores.

Katie Holmes

#84. The real legacy of the Internet is not the birth of thousands of new online companies but the transformation of existing businesses. We can see its signature on everything from mom-and-pop stores to large multinational agglomerates.

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

#85. What's the point of being old if you can't beleaguer the young with your vast stores of wisdom?

And what's the point of being young if you can't ignore all advice?

Laini Taylor

#86. But Noodynaady's actual ingrate tootle is of come into the garner mauve and thy nice are stores of morning and buy me a bunch of iodines.

James Joyce

#87. If women dressed for men, the stores wouldn't sell much - just an occasional sun visor.

Groucho Marx

#88. Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.

P. J. O'Rourke

#89. I collect stuffed animals, and toy stores make me happy.

Grace Slick

#90. Should alcoholics go to liquor stores?

Ally Carter

#91. Author tours used to have a sense of excitement and pleasure, a sense of occasion. I remember stores having a table with wine and food. It was just a real evening.

Jane Hamilton

#92. All things take time. A lot of my films still run on cable and are in video stores, and there's a whole generation that doesn't know who I am. So, it's a dichotomy. In some people's minds I may never grow up.

Robby Benson

#93. I wish happiness was some edible food easily available in stores... Oh wait, it is.

Hk

#94. A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with clean underwear -instead of being allowed to pursue "something higher"- stores up great reserves of vitality, a vitality never dreamed of by university students yawning over their books.

Milan Kundera

#95. It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.

Jackie Kennedy

#96. I've never dated (casually). Ever. It's kind of weird. I did have a boyfriend in junior high who was a kleptomaniac. We'd leave stores and he'd come out with something for me.

Claire Danes

#97. So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.

Ed Smith

#98. Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.

Tony Benn

#99. I grew up with a single mother, and although we didn't have a lot of money, she cared a great deal about what we ate. We were the original health-food family. We shopped at what were called health-food stores before Whole Foods - everything came from bins.

Mona Simpson

#100. Every year we close 300-400 stores anyway, just relocations.

Jim Cantalupo