Stores Quotes - Page 11

• I love being able to go to a store, let's say... a store like Topshop or Zara or maybe even Macy's, depends on what department, and not have to look at the price tag.

  Tyra Banks

  Price Tag, Zara, Topshop

  "Tale of Two Tyras: Ex-Model Explains Split TV Persona". “Nightline” with Cynthia McFadden, abcnews.go.com. September 8, 2009.

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• Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

  P. T. Barnum

  Men, Kind, Truth Is

  P. T. Barnum (2005). “Making Money”, p.77

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• I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you.

  Drew Barrymore

  Reality, Manuals, Knows

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• We need to figure out a 'harvest system' to collect the produce that stores don't put out for customers to buy because it's not perfect looking. Frankly, the stuff left to rot in the storeroom is more beautiful to me than the perfect carrot. I'm a gnarly carrot kind of guy.

  Mario Batali

  Beautiful, Gnarly, Perfect

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• An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Home, Mean, Self

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

  Jeff Bezos

  Online, Obvious, Selection

  "Book Learning". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 2, 2009.

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• I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.

  Jello Biafra

  Thinking, Mtv, Shopping

  Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. April 9, 1997.

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• While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Facts, Needs

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• I think the only reason you visit an Apple store is because you wonder what life is like on another planet.

  Lewis Black

  Thinking, Apples, Life Is Like

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• It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.

  Tom Bodett

  School, Alaska, Mountain

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• Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mom, Mother, Years

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• I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.

  Brandon Boyd

  Smile, Kids, Thinking

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• The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Years, Spotlight, Singers

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• I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

  Robert Burns

  Struggle, Mind, Offensive

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1844). “The Works of Robert Burns: With Dr. Currie's Memoir of the Poet, and an Essay on His Genius and Character”, p.276

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• Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

  Robert Burton

  Real, Moon, Mind

  Robert Burton (1824). “The Anatomy of Melancholy,: In which the Kinds, Causes, Consequences, and Cures of this English Malady, ... are -- "traced from Within Its Inmost Centre to Its Outmost Skin."”, p.178

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• Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

  John Calvin

  Believe, Men, Idols

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• In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

  Julia Child

  Food, Men, People

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• If I have an hour in a city, I go to vintage stores first because it's so much cooler to find a piece that is unique. I love the thought of some girl having worn it before and living her life in it.

  Helena Christensen

  Girl, Unique, Worn It

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

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• We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Vitality, Madness

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• I just go about my life. I'm a mom, I drive an SUV, I go to the grocery store every day. I'm definitely not a celebrity. I always say that I'm a celebrity-adjacent.

  Diablo Cody

  Mom, Suvs, Groceries

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• To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that’s a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

  Phil Collins

  Firsts, Labels, Records

  "Phil Collins goes "Back" to Motown favorites". Interview with Craig McLean, www.reuters.com. September 10, 2010.

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• I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.

  Dane Cook

  Giving, Toasters, Today

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• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Wisdom, Hard Work, Maturity

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• I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Looks, Vietnam, Littles

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• Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Motivational, Health

  Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations p. 139 Fred Metcalf. Penguin Books, London (2001)

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