Working Retail Quotes

#1. The worst thing about working retail is that your friends get chosen for you by management. It's the scariest thing about working in the service industry: your coworkers reflect your own failure.

Isaac Jourden

#2. His face held a certain impassivity; you see it in all waiters and valets. They might want to jam a knife through your left eye socket, but you'd never know it from their expression. Working retail, I've acquired a similar look myself.

Ann Aguirre

#3. Winning the Rookie of the Year would be nice but making the playoffs would be even nicer for me.

Andrew Bogut

#4. I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.

Anthony Marra

#5. It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Mark Twain

#6. But with art came idolatry; with construction came ostentation and oppression; with commerce came luxury.

James Oscar Boyd

#7. The public schools tend to teach little kids from when they are very young about the whole universe without God and that God cannot be in science. They are indoctrinating children in an atheistic religious view of things.

Ken Ham

#8. A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

Conn Iggulden

#9. Suffering is seeing what Jesus sees, and joy is doing what Jesus does.

Heidi Baker

#10. The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him.

Henrietta Mears

#11. Retail therapy - usually one of my first resorts - wasn't working; I felt like a cat that smelled pit bull.

M.L.N. Hanover

#12. I think those that are holier-than-thou don't make jokes. They take themselves too seriously and Peeta doesn't take himself too seriously. This is what I believe in and I'm comfortable with that and I can make a joke here and there.

Josh Hutcherson

#13. I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.

Irvin D. Yalom

#14. Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.

Richard Rohr

#15. What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.

Alison Gopnik

#16. You need the confidence to fail in order to take risks in your work

Jessica Walsh

#17. As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.

Willard Scott

#18. I remember my first job, when I was working in a retail store down there, growing up in Laurel, Mississippi. I was making, like, $2.15 an hour. And I was taught how to responsibly handle those customer interactions.

Marsha Blackburn