Customers Quotes - Page 12

• Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Mean, Hands

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• She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Names, Hated, Implied

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “The Guy Not Taken”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer, the onion rings soggy. Looking around the place, though, I failed to spot a single customer banging on a tray or complaining to a waitress. So I shut up and finished my food. Expect nothing, get nothing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beer, Complaining, Shrimp

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.

  Ann Brashares

  Honesty, Fighting, Ivy

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.163, Penguin

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• ...the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended.

  Julia Child

  Joy, Quiet, Missions

  Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme (2006). “My Life in France”, p.17, Anchor

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• Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.

  Margaret Atwood

  Selfish, Princess, Want

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• the shop owner did not try to push the book on any of her customers. She knew that in the wrong hands such a book could easily be dismissed, or, worse, go unread. Instead she let it sit where it was in the hope that the right reader might discover it.

  Nicole Krauss

  Book, Hands, Trying

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.74, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it." -

  Seth Godin

  Leadership, Business, Winning

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• Maybe they’re customers. (Simone) For a doll store? Yes, I can just see them now…I’ll take the frilly pink baby doll. (Liza)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Yes I Can, Dolls

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• For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things he didn't want, things indeed which nobody in their right mind would want to buy.

  Margaret Mahy

  Buying Things, Shopping, Mind

  Margaret Mahy (2002). “The Catalogue of the Universe”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Most of the Peacekeepers turn a blind eye to the few of us who hunt because they're as hungry as we are for fresh meat as anyone. In fact, they're among our best customers.

  Suzanne Collins

  Eye, Meat, Facts

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• I’m busy sorting through our new collection of rhinestone jewelry. Should anyone be in the market for sparkly accessories the size of a hubcap, this is the place to get them. Earlier today, a customer picked up one of the enormous chandelier-style offerings and asked, 'Do those be genuine rhimestones?' I couldn’t even begin to explain everything that was wrong with her sentence, so I simply replied, 'Yes. They do be genuine.

  Jen Lancaster

  Offering, Style, Accessories

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• …he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men [...] In the hush his entrance creates, the excessive courtesy the weary woman behind the counter shows him amplifies his strangeness. He orders coffee quietly and studies the rim of the cup to steady the sliding in his stomach. He had thought, he had read, that from shore to shore all America was the same. He wonders, Is it just these people I’m outside or is it all America?

  John Updike

  Coffee, Eye, Men

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• Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Business, Loyal Customers

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• After the fire, when I'd tried to express my gratitude for their kindness to our customers, they'd been awkward, uncomfortable. My father had had to explain to me that giving thanks is not a common practice in India. 'Then how do you know if people appreciated what you did?' I'd asked. 'Do you really need to know?' my father had asked back.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Gratitude, Kindness, Father

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2007). “Queen of Dreams”, p.295, Anchor

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• Where's your instruction manual?" I asked him. "What's the baby customer-service number?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Baby, Numbers, Instruction

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.223, St. Martin's Press

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• Thank you,” Simon said. “It’s a joke, Isabelle. He’s the Count. He likes counting. You know. ‘What did the Count eat today, children? One chocolate chip cookie, two chocolate chip cookies, three chocolate chip cookies . . .’” There was a rush of cold air as the door of the restaurant opened, letting in another customer. Isabelle shivered and reached for her black silk scarf. “It’s not realistic.” “What would you prefer? ‘What did the Count eat today, children? One helpless villager, two helpless villagers, three helpless villagers . . .

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Air, Doors

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• In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only the product is credit, not crack or heroin. It concentrates the money of the population in just a few hands with brutal efficiency, just like narco-business, and just as in narco-business the product itself, debt, steadily demoralizes the customer to the point where he’s unable to prevent himself from being continually dominated.

  Matt Taibbi

  Ghetto, Dope, Hands

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• A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread being the bored and slightly effete way he normally acts with customers, the middle being the crazed and abnormal way he feels around this famous nineteen-year-old girl, and the top bread being his attempt to contain and conceal this alien middle layer with some mode of behavior that at least approximates the bottom layer of boredom and effeteness that is his norm.

  Jennifer Egan

  Girl, Years, Lunch

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.128, Anchor

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• They said I was a valued customer. Now they send me hate mail.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Hate, Mail, Said

  "Confessions of a Shopaholic". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• You're a pretty cool customer, huh?" says Agent Hunt. "I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage." Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.

  Holly Black

  Pain, Agents, Fists

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Miracle, Communicate

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 03, 2017

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• I don’t have the time to devote to circles or covens. I have to fit things in when and where I can, in stolen moments and cups of coffee. Stirring clockwise to conjure. Widdershins to banish. There’s never enough time, and rarely enough caffeine, but I make do with what I have. Besides, cauldrons and pointy hats are overrated. Sometimes I see other customers practicing. Pouring their cream and sugar with studied intent. Stirring with purpose. I add an extra spoonful of sugar to my own coffee for them, to make all of our enchantments sweeter.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Coffee, Circles, Enough Time

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• Shouldn’t you be working instead of fraternizing with customers?” I choked. He smiled. “What are you doing Sunday night?” I snorted. By accident. “Are you asking me out?” “You’re getting cocky. I like that, Angel.” “I don’t care what you like. I’m not going out with you. Not on a date. Not alone.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Cocky, Angel, Sunday

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Educational

  Twitter post from Apr 06, 2015

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