Sears Quotes

#1. I was a Knicks fan of the Kenny Sears-Carl Braun-Jim Baechtold vintage. I was even their ball boy when I was a teenager.

Marv Albert

#2. I worked at Sears in the Woodfield Mall as a gift wrapper. I'm actually a great gift wrapper, and the customers were so nice to me. I was only 16, and eventually Sears put me in customer service because I was so friendly.

Sherri Shepherd

#3. I've worked since it was basically legal to work. I was a waitress on and off for eight years. I worked at Sears; I worked at Abercrombie folding clothes. My dad really instilled good money management habits, and I've saved 10 percent of my paycheck, every paycheck, since I was 15.

Rosanna Pansino

#4. It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.

Bobby Jones

#5. Writers get ideas all day every day. The FedEx guy delivers a package from Sears and the writer is thinking how it could actually be a ticking time bomb.

Dan Alatorre

#6. Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

Elizabeth Warren

#7. The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.

Roseanne Barr

#8. I am fascinated to hear of the impact that ESOPs have had on work-force morale in corporations of all sizes such as Sears Roebuck, Potomac Electric Power, Lowe's Companies and the Dow Chemical Company.

Robert S. Strauss

#9. Calvin: Dad where do babies come from?
Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions.
Calvin: I came from Sears?
Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart - almost as good and a lot cheaper!

Bill Watterson

#10. Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.

Sue Grafton

#11. When I was a kid, man, my dad used to buy me the Ted Williams glove at Sears with the Ted Williams shoes with the eight stripes on 'em. I used to play Little League, and I was Ted Williams-ed out.

Tony Gwynn

#12. LYou can get yourself cut and stitched, or you can get a good girdle. The day before my first Emmy show, I went to Sears and bought a really good girdle. And I've worn that thing to every single awards show since!

Jane Kaczmarek

#13. But you do not reject the supernatural out of hand,' Sears said. 'I don't know if I do or do not,' I said. 'Like most people.

Peter Straub

#14. I crave white on white and black, but my thoughts race in glorious technicolour, prodding me awake, whipping away the warm blanket of invisibility every time it sears to smother my mind in nothing.

Sarah Kane

#15. The truth is too harsh to touch, and I shy away from it before it sears itself into my brain and becomes real.

C.J. Redwine

#16. Guilt sears instantly through my brain, but I don't stop walking away.

Donna Cooner

#17. Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.

Billy Bob Thornton

#18. If we put a product into Sears, we don't want to have to pull it out in a year, or two years, or three years. We don't want to do that only to have it yanked away.

Edward Lampert

#19. To operate a company of the size of Sears Holdings or Wal-Mart or Target or Home Depot or Lowe's, you need a combination of skills, and each of those skills needs to be sufficiently strong.

Edward Lampert

#20. Rick and Scotty, who had heard Australian slang before from Digger Sears, one-time mate of the Tarpon, broke into chuckles.

"I'd better translate," Scotty said, "'Lord stone the crows' is just an expression. Oscar Ashe is hard cash. Yakka is hard work. And dinkum oil is gospel truth.

John Blaine

#21. Used to Sears, JC Penney, and Woolworth's, Birmingham's stores sounded foreign: Gucci, Jacobson's, and Dittrich Furs. Underground parking kept the shoppers flawlessly coifed and dry - a scene from a Hollywood movie.

Claudia Whitsitt

#22. Jacob looks like a totally normal young man. He's clearly intelligent. But having his day disrupted probably makes him feel the same way I would if I was suddenly told to bungee off the top of the Sears Tower.

Jodi Picoult

#23. I worked at Sears as a salesperson when I was in college. Makes me nicer to folks to have to stand all day and be nice to picky people.

Sharon Draper

#24. ...there is beauty that hits the eye like a bolt of lightning, that burns and sears and blinds. It is more disaster than pleasure. But yours, yours is a beauty that lulls one into comfort, into not protecting one's eyes from the light, then one night you realise that the moon, too, has its beauty.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#25. Blood fills my mouth. Fire sears my veins. I choke back a howl. The silver knife slips
the
choice is mine.
I am death or life. I am salvation or destruction. Angel or demon.
I am grace.
I plunge in the knife.
This is my sacrifice
I am the monster.

Bree Despain

#26. You are the kind of person that sears into the soul. I have never been able to get you out of my mind.

Kate Jacobs

#27. Removed an inch long section. She almost called Dr. Sears, but

Todd Russell

#28. Fazulr Khan, a Bengali Muslim, designed the Sears Tower in Chicago. It was the world's tallest building when it opened in 1973.

Firas Alkhateeb

#29. But Henry was pretty irritating himself, with his steadfast way of remaining naive, as though life were just what a Sears catalogue told you it was: everyone standing around smiling.

Elizabeth Strout

#30. This was not Mr. Sears talking, not really; this was the voice of what the flask flayed raw and bloody inside his soul, what it stomped and kicked and tortured until the voice had to scream for release.

Robert McCammon

#31. In 1972, about 10 cents out of every retail dollar was spent with Sears.

Alan Wurtzel

#32. George Sears, called Nessmuk, whose "Woodcraft," published in 1884, was the first American book on forest camping, and is written with so much wisdom, wit, and insight that it makes Henry David Thoreau seem alien, humorless, and French.

John McPhee

#33. You all got only three friends in this world: The Lord God Almighty, the Sears Roebuck catalog and Eugene Talmadge. And you can only vote for one of them

Eugene Talmadge

#34. You have only three real friends: Jesus Christ, Sears Roebuck, and Gene Talmadge.

Eugene Talmadge

#35. A Polish man had his vasectomy done at Sears. Now when he makes love, the garage door goes up.

Henny Youngman

#36. I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the years. Usually, I come up with a situation or a character, and it rattles around in my head until the story or the plot emerges.

Brian Helgeland

#37. Stability of heart - commitment to the life of the soul, faithfulness to the community, perseverance in the search for God - is the mooring that holds us fast when the night of the soul is at its deepest dark, and the noontime sun sears the spirit. When

Joan D. Chittister

#38. In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.

R. Kelly

#39. I hate Billings, Montana. They have a fashion show at Sears Roebuck

Joan Rivers

#40. Politics is motion." John Sears

Rick Perlstein

#41. I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up.

Charlotte Arnold

#42. Between my hatred of mall shopping and my mother's firm ideas about how a girl should dress, my style choices were pretty unenthusiastic: plaid skirts or whatever empire-waisted thingamabob was on sale at Sears.

Mary Gaitskill

#43. When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears.

Leslie Mann

#44. Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.

Richard Condon

#45. SOUTH RICHMOND was a neighborhood of mouse holes, lace curtains, Sears catalogs, measles epidemics, baloney sandwiches - and men who knew more about the carburetor than they knew about the clitoris.

Tom Robbins

#46. (talking about his father) 230 pounds of nickels in Sears slacks.

Bruce Springsteen

#47. My dad's idea of a good time is to go to Sears and walk around.

Jay Leno

#48. It was no mystery why Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold had singled me out as a prime prospect for their heinous crime. My grandfather, Julius Rosenwald, was the chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck and Co. His prominence made me an ideal choice.

Armand Deutsch

#49. At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.

Steve Almond

#50. There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Sears' basement. Despite all the Indians on the escalator, Columbus' visit came to be known as a discovery.

Tom Robbins

#51. Disruption is in my genes. My father owned one of the first discount toy stores, Duane's Toyland, in Albany and Schenectady, near where I grew up. Discount was always a huge disruptor - it disrupted Sears Roebuck.

Craig Hatkoff

#52. I was very clear why we put these companies together and what our goals were. It was really to allow both Sears and Kmart to compete in what I thought was going to be a more challenging but evolving industry.

Edward Lampert

#53. Garcia had traded his Sears electric guitar for an acoustic model shortly after arriving in Palo Alto, and late that spring Barbara bought him a better guitar, and shortly after that, a lovely sounding Stella twelve-string.

Blair Jackson

#54. There are certain times of the day when you need a balance - that is, your protein and your carbs. I'm a Barry Sears man. I believe that anything green is a carb, and I need 2:1. Two of the carbs to one of the protein.

Bill Cosby

#55. Devon had been so lonely, so terribly lonely, for so long. The kind of lonely that sears, that burrows its way deep inside a heart and throbs. Like a gnawing hunger.

Amy Efaw

#56. Men aren't men until they can get to Sears by themselves.

Tim Allen

#57. It flamed like a star that leaping from the firmament sears the dark air with intolerable light.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#58. I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

Roseanne Barr

#59. When she awakes, she knows where she is. This place, this ancient place sears one's soul with recognition. 'Heaven' seems an inadequate word for it, but that is what it is known as.

Victoria Kahler

#60. Sears is offering free $10 gift cards to the first few hundred shoppers. So that may have something to do with the early crowd.

Dan Jones

#61. When Franklin D. Roosevelt was asked what book he could give the Soviets to teach them about the advantages of American society, he pointed to the Sears catalogue.

Alain De Botton

#62. It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#63. The image sears my brain too, and I wonder if I will ever be able to forget it. Although I realize that I am in trouble here, there is still a part of me that wants to giggle. The situation has moved so out of control, I half-expect him to pull out a pair of furry handcuffs.

Julie Buxbaum

#64. 'A Tuna Christmas' is the second in a series of plays created by Joe Sears and Jaston Williams featuring the fictional town of Greater Tuna, the third-smallest town in Texas. What makes these plays so hysterically funny is the accurate portrayal of small-town life in the Lone Star State.

Lori Wilde

#65. One of their most famous coups was underwriting a $10 million loan for a growing mail-order house called Sears, Roebuck, headed by Goldman's distant relative. It was the first time a mail-order security had ever been on the market-a calculated risk, but one that paid off.

Kenneth L. Fisher

#66. Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!'

Teddy Sears

#67. I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant.

Leah Ward Sears

#68. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life. I try to keep that as much in balance with work as I can.

Teddy Sears

#69. The Glycemic Index is one the best tools for fat loss. It measures how quickly foods breakdown into sugar in your bloodstream.

Al Sears

#70. If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.

Sears, Roebuck And Co.

#71. I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do things effectively. And when I dress, I dress for me. I don't dress to make other people think that I'm this way or that way.

Teddy Sears

#72. I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.

Teddy Sears

#73. For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.

Teddy Sears

#74. I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'

Teddy Sears

#75. These daughters of Zeus and Themis were: Eirene: The personification of peace Eunomia: The personification of law and order Dike: The personification of justice

Kathleen Sears

#76. A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.

Leah Ward Sears

#77. I'm a really big surfer, and I have also been playing a ton of volleyball on the beach on the weekends.

Teddy Sears

#78. Oftentimes I felt ridiculous giving my seal of approval to what was in reality such a natural thing to do, sort of like reinventing the wheel and extolling its virtues. Had parents' intuition sunk so low that some strange man had to tell modern women that it was okay to sleep with their babies?

William Sears

#79. Potatoes have such a high GI rating; it's almost the same as eating table sugar.

Al Sears

#80. My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.

Teddy Sears

#81. Only the English created a new England, settled not by subjects of the Crown resolved to live beyond the seas, but by pioneers and builders in a land of new promise.

Stephen W. Sears

#82. Have you had a 'relationship discussion' with God lately? Do you need to?

Lesley Sears

#83. Our vote for the safest and most nutritious seafood is Alaskan sockeye or king salmon.

Martha Sears

#84. I walked out of 'Harry and the Hendersons.' Harry bugged me; I don't know. Yeah, it's weird because I think Sasquatches are great, but not then. Maybe not that weekend - I don't know. I don't know what it was.

Teddy Sears

#85. How you approach birth is intimately connected with how you approach life

William Sears

#86. That's why the recent popularity of juicing (the removal of fiber from fruits to make easy-to-drink juices) has been a disaster. Juicing simply removes a primary control rod (i.e., fiber) from the carbohydrate, meaning that the carbohydrate enters the bloodstream too fast.

Barry Sears

#87. It's a strange thing we do as actors. I'm walking out the door, and I'll say, 'O.K., honey, I'm off to take my clothes off.'

Teddy Sears

#88. I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

Leah Ward Sears

#89. My siblings and I, we were raised on TV and films. Not a day went by that we weren't watching one of three movies - 'Caddyshack,' 'Animal House,' 'Beverly Hills Cop' - on rotation. Our comedy, our personalities were set watching 'Sesame Street': these really sort of wacky, Jim Henson-y characters.

Teddy Sears

#90. To control your hormones is to control your life.

Barry Sears

#91. Trapped in history. History trapped in me.

Djanet Sears

#92. I love improving, I love being creative and I love being my own boss.

Teddy Sears

#93. Always drink at least 8 ounces of water or a sugar-free decaffeinated beverage with every meal or snack. If you are a heavy caffeine user, gradually reduce caffeine intake to zero whenever possible.

Barry Sears

#94. Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.

Edmund Sears

#95. Eating a slice of white bread is like eating pure sugar.

Barry Sears

#96. I think people need to commit to one another before they commit to bringing children into the world because that's the optimum arrangement for children, not to take anything at all away from women who have to rear their children by themselves.

Leah Ward Sears

#97. We are all foolish sinners saved only by grace & we can all use a little guidance sometimes.

Lesley Sears

#98. The course of a life can be changed with some well timed, lovingly asked, honestly answered questions.

Lesley Sears

#99. Calm on the listening ear of night Come Heaven's melodious strains, Where wild Judea stretches far Her silver-mantled plains.

Edmund Sears

#100. We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances.

Leah Ward Sears