Department Stores Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Stores, Found, Chains

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• I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

  Helen Reddy

  Couple, Skills, Week

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• The first job I got when I was in high school was working for a department store in New York. I worked in the stockroom. That's when I learned that I couldn't work for anyone else, because I was spoken to in a way that I wasn't spoken to at home.

  Frankie Knuckles

  Jobs, New York, Home

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• If you want a good handbag and glasses, it's hard to get something without the brand name on it because it's so important to have the charmed inscription. The only way you do it... This handbag was the only one in the shop without a charmed inscription. It's just an ordinary bag. I went into the department store in Sloane Square, because I needed a new bag, because my old one lost its handles. Then I found this one, and I said "Why is it so cheap?" and the seller said, "Because it doesn't have a name!"

  Marina Warner

  Squares, Glasses, Names

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Wonderful, I like cars, too, I like all the great things you can buy in a department store. But when you have to buy them in order to stay unaware, comatose, then the price you pay is too high.

  Gudrun Ensslin

  Order, Car, Pay

  "Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History". Book by Siegfried Zielinski, 1999.

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• I had a lot of jobs, because I wanted to be an actor, and I had this bad habit of wanting to eat regularly. So, I had to make some money somewhere. I was everything from a stock worker in an Alexander's department store to flower delivery person to a messenger to a grocery clerk to a gas station attendant. I even worked in Macy's dusting off fur coats for two weeks.

  Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

  Jobs, Flower, Two

  Source: aalbc.com

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• You folks feeling the economic pinch? Are you a little fed up with the economic news? It's bad. The department stores, this holiday season, no Santa Claus. They're laying off department-store Santa Clauses. So more bad news for John McCain.

  David Letterman

  Holiday, Feelings, News

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• I remember when I took a temp job... so I got a job at a department store. Something temporary to put on my resume, my parents said. Yeah... till I die!

  Drew Carey

  Jobs, Parent, Remember

  "The Drew Carey Show". TV Series, www.imdb.com. September 13, 1995.

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• Curiously, ghosts are rarely if ever seen in the nude. They appear fully clothed, and may even change clothing on subsequent appearances. They may change their form, to appear as they looked at different stages of their lives. Unless someone out there knows of an extoplasmic department store on the spiritual plane, we have to wonder, "Where do the clothes and accessories come from?

  Loyd Auerbach

  Spiritual, Clothes, Accessories

  Loyd Auerbach (2005). “Hauntings and Poltergeists: A Ghost Hunter's Guide”, p.77, Ronin Publishing

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• If - and it can be in a movie or in a department store - I hear someone arguing with their child, I break down and cry. Because it reflects how I was treated when I was little.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Ifs And, Down And

  Source: www.today.com

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• A year after I started college, I had no clue what I wanted to do. My mother said, forget everything else-if it were your birthday today, what would you do? I thought, I would play with makeup at the department store. So she said, do that!

  Bobbi Brown

  Mother, Makeup, College

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• Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windowsthe displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcitymimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Delicacy, Landscape, Affluence

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• I've speculated about what my life might have been like as a musician, but I'm afraid I came to the conclusion that I probably would've either been teaching piano or maybe gotten to play at Nordstrom's department store.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Teaching, Piano, Play

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me.

  Terry Zwigoff

  Mother, Kids, Santa

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• Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry... To buy the latest gadget, the latest model of anything that is on the market, is the dream of everybody, in comparison to which the real pleasure in use is quite secondary. Modern man, if the dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Real, Men

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• I fished upstream coming ever closer and closer to the narrow staircase of the canyon. Then I went up into it as if I were entering a department store. I caught three trout in the lost and found department.

  Richard Brautigan

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The lady across the hall tried to rob a department store . . . with a pricing gun. She said, "Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'm marking down everything in the store."

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Money, Humor

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• Sex is an extremely subtle undertaking, unlike going to the department store on a Sunday to buy a thermos.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sex, Sunday, Subtle

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

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• 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

  Stores, Department, Ifs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Department store Santas are apparently being trained to lower children's expectations about toys because of the recession. Yeah, it's weird when you ask Santa for a train set and he's like, 'Yeah, how 'bout a bus token?

  Jimmy Fallon

  Children, Expectations, Santa

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• If I see a movie star in the department store buying something, I'll kind of sidle up and see what they're saying, what they look like, how they sound. That's an invasion of privacy.

  Tom Lehrer

  Stars, Sound, Buying Something

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2000.

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• The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.

  William Christopher Handy

  Eye, Names, House

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• The person I love would never wear fur. Fur just makes me think of shallow women who have no conscience. The fur industry belongs to a time when people were selfish beyond belief. If you were some ancient tribal cheiftain, and there was not a department store nearby 350 years ago, I'd understand. But now, we have synthetic fibers,and it's not necessary. The elitism of fur makes me wanna puke.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Selfish, Thinking, Years

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• You can set off bells when you walk out of a drugstore or department store with a tagged item.

  Frank Murkowski

  Bells, Stores, Walks

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• When I started, department stores were either very fashion, or very tailored, so the two never mixed. I mixed it, and they said you're too tailored for fashion and too fashion for tailoring. So I had to move the market. So that's what I did.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Fashion, Moving, Two

  "Ozwald Boateng: does my head look big in this?". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 09, 2012.

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