Merchandise Quotes - Page 2

• I started touring in 2006, and there was an agreement made for merchandise between my mom and myself.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Mom, Agreement, Touring

  "Dweezil Zappa plays... whatever he wants". Interview with Allison Stewart, www.chicagotribune.com. October 6, 2016.

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• Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.

  Jessica Lange

  Successful, Years, Editors

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• The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Thinking, Cereal, Election Process

  Speech at the Democratic National Convention, August 18, 1956.

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• It is a strange anomaly that men could be careful to insure their houses, their ships, their merchandise, and yet neglect to insure their lives - surely the most important of all to their families, and more subject to loss.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Loss, Men, House

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• One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern nerd - the nerd is out and proud, and while she may love 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' merchandise more than is strictly warranted, she is in every way to be cherished as an exemplar of cosmopolitanism and tolerance.

  Will Self

  Diversity, Tolerance, Nerd

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• The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Sacrifice, Self, Shrines

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• Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may.

  Sally Stanford

  Fall, Men, Romance

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• Law is not a trade, not briefs, not merchandise, and so the heaven of commercial competition should not vulgarize the legal profession.

  V. R. Krishna Iyer

  Law, Heaven, Competition

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• Storehouses filled with merchandise will prove a better guarantee than arsenals bulging with ammunition.

  Elisabeth Marbury

  Peace, Guarantees, Filled

  Elisabeth Marbury (1924). “My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences”, New York : Boni and Liveright

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• The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shopper aloft, as though afraid he might change his mind. It takes us up to merchandise we might not have bothered to climb an ordinary flight of steps for.

  Joseph Roth

  Climbing, Mind, Might

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• My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.

  Billy Corgan

  World, Lines, Championship

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• They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.

  Frank McCourt

  Business, Mistake, Bars

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• Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Opposites, People, Pay

  "The joy of simply faffing around" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2008.

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• Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Thinking, Video, Bottles

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• I'm the one person who wears the words 'hustle, loyalty, respect' on my T-shirts and merchandise. My audience is children. It's very flattering to see a kid wear your T-shirt; it's even more flattering to have a dad come up to you and say, 'I watch you with my kid. Keep doing what you're doing. You're a role model for my son.'

  John Cena

  Loyalty, Dad, Children

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho' not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull; He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family in that Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call ourselves, and write our Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call'd me.

  Daniel Defoe

  Mother, Country, Father

  Daniel Defoe (1998). “The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque, Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished But Himself with an Account how He was at Last as Strangely Deliver'd by Pyrates, Written by Himself”, p.3, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Character, Heart, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.90

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• These are the lords
  That have bought titles: men may merchandise
  Wares, ay and traffic in all commodities
  From sea to sea, and from shore to shore:
  But in my thought, of all things that are sold,
  'Tis pity honor should be bought for gold:
  It cuts off all desert.

  Eliza Haywood

  Cutting, Men, Sea

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• Arms cannot be regarded as merchandise in our world. They should be delivered to the peoples asking for them for use against the common enemy without any charge at all, and in quantities determined by the need and their availability.

  Che Guevara

  Our World, Availability, Enemy

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• I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor; do not try the law; do not think of the ministry; let alone all ships and merchandise; abhor politics; don't practice medicine; be not a farmer or a soldier or a sailor; don't study, don't think. None of these are easy. O, my son, you have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Jobs, Son, Thinking

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• Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must always have the most money.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Money, Gold, Silver

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.361

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• I'm open to the gifts of the Spirit. The real healings are so beautiful I hate to see it blasphemed by fakes who merchandise the gifts.

  Richard Rossi

  Beautiful, Hate, Real

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and cast anchor. The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise. Odors of distant countries and times steal from the red leaves, the swelling ridges of vellum, and the titles in tarnished gold.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Country, Anchors, Curiosity

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• [Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise and, [in the age of photography] the world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that have been encountered before in some other museum and to say that the camera cannot lie is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practiced in its name.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Photography, Lying, Museums

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• Thousands of salespeople are pounding the pavements today, tired, discouraged and underpaid. Why? Because they are always thinking only of what they want. They don't realize that neither you nor I want to buy anything. If we did, we would go out and buy it. But both of us are eternally interested in solving our problems. And if salespeople can show us how their services or merchandise will help us solve our problems, they won't need to sell us. We'll buy. And customers like to feel that they are buying - not being sold.

  Dale Carnegie

  Tired, Thinking, Want

  Dale Carnegie, General Press (2016). “How to Win Friends and Influence People”, p.47, GENERAL PRESS

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