Stores Quotes

• Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

  Joan Rivers

  Thank You, Country, Fashion

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• I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Nature, Humor

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• Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.

  Helen Fisher

  Clothes, Sheep, Dinner

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• But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm gripped by a cherishing so deep for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I'm speechless: I am living. I remember you.

  Marie Howe

  Glasses, Hair, Remember You

  "What The Living Do". Book by Marie Howe, November 17, 1997.

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• The store of wisdom does not consist
  of hard coins which keep their shape
  as they pass from hand to hand;
  it consists of ideas and doctrines
  whose meanings change
  with the minds that entertain them.

  John Plamenatz

  Knowledge, Hands, Ideas

  John Petrov Plamenatz (1963). “Man and Society: A Critical Examination of Some Important Social and Political Theories from Machiavelli to Marx... John Plamenatz....”

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• Selfishness is when we pursue gain at the expense of others. But God doesn’t have a limited number of treasures to distribute. When you store up treasures for yourself in heaven, it doesn’t reduce the treasures available to others. In fact, it is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses.

  Randy Alcorn

  Numbers, Heaven, Selfishness

  Randy Alcorn (2012). “The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving”, p.19, Multnomah

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• Buy real records in real shops, or I'll come round your house and scream at your mother.

  Ian Gillan

  Funny, Mother, Real

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

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• It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.

  Randall Munroe

  Beach, Writing, Twenties

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• I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.

  Don McLean

  Different, Albums, Records

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• I do happen to love Honey Nut Cheerios. I don't know if I want to walk down to the store in my pajamas for them. But I do love them.

  Michael K. Williams

  Nuts, Want, Honey

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• I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.

  Peter Welch

  Mom, Coffee, Together

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• The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely noticeable... The dull and ignorant physician day and night, and all the days and all the nights, drenched his patient with vast and hideous doses of the most repulsive drugs to be found in the store´s stock. He kept him religion sick for eighteen centuries, and allowed him not a well day during all that time.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Night, Practice

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• I don't look at myself as a celebrity. People recognize me, but it's all about my music, my songs. It's not like I'm a greater being. I take my kids to school, pick them up, go to the grocery store. I'm a mother, and my kids mean more to me than even being an artist.

  Faith Evans

  Mother, Song, Mean

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• Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Cows, Consumption, Genetically Modified Food

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson Tells GMO Critics to 'Chill Out'" by Chris Mooney, www.motherjones.com. July 30, 2014.

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• I bargained with Life for a penny,
  And Life would pay no more,
  However I begged at evening
  When I counted my scanty store.

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

  Life, Pay, Pennies

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1918). “The Door of Dreams”

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• I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Shopping, Teens, Thrift

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• If you don't have a well-thought out dream, you can start by figuring out where you want to go. If you cannot see yourself fairly or accurately represented in the community you live (from restaurants to department stores to clothing choices to conversations at the dinner table) and nothing there makes you feel awake or alive, I suggest you start doing some research on some other communities.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Dream, Choices, Community

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• Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.

  Helen Keller

  Beauty, Art, Inspiration

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• The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Should Have, Practice, Racist

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", 1992.

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• If I weren't in Radiohead I'd be working at a grocery store, I'd be that creepy guy who lives in an efficiency apartment and collects salted, cured meats.

  Thom Yorke

  Guy, Creepy, Meat

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• Sometimes I stand in store windows and pretend to be a mannequin. People are like 'hey, that mannequin looks alot like thom yorke' Then I start to sing The Gloaming and lurch toward them and they run off horrified.

  Thom Yorke

  Running, People, Looks

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• Better to me the poor mans crust,
  Better the blessing of the poor,
  Though I turn me empty from his door;
  That is no true alms which the hand can hold;
  He gives nothing but worthless gold
  Who gives from a sense of duty;
  But he who gives a slender mite,
  And gives to that which is out of sight,
  That thread of the all-sustaining Beauty
  Which runs through all and doth all unite, -
  The hand cannot clasp the whole of his alms,
  The heart outstretches its eager palms,
  For a god goes with it and makes it store
  To the soul that was starving in darkness before.

  James Russell Lowell

  Running, Heart, Blessing

  James Russell Lowell, “The Vision Of Sir Launfal”

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• Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but dangerous on the other. The result is that we have developed a kind of false security where language is concerned, and our sensitivity to language has deteriorated. And we have become in proportion insensitive to silence.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Attitude, Writing, Hands

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• I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

  Len Deighton

  Writing, Lenses, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

  John Cotton

  Art, Museums, Hours

  "Don't Think of Them as Mausoleums" by Tara Mulholland, www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2010.

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