Stores Quotes
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High-end boutiques aren't putting small staple stores out of business. What's putting small staple stores out of business is formula retail.
Chicken John
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Vegetable box schemes, local greengrocers, farmers' markets and organic stores are a great place to source package-free foods.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
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I noticed that I used to go to second hand shops and flea markets and find funny, cute things, but now I go into those stores, and I think, This is dead people's stuff. This is all, like, somebody cleaned out their parents' house, and I don't want any of it. If I didn't want it from my parents, I don't want it from your parents.
Roz Chast
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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
Thomas More
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What is worrisome about that is the U.S. standard of living. I think it is very difficult to envision our standard of living being preserved if we are in an economy where all people do is flip hamburgers, wait on people in stores, and sue each other. It’s not much of a basis for an economy.
Wilbur Ross
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She stores so many of his words in her head that she feels as if she has become nothing more than a book he has written.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.
Virgil Thomson
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I love shopping. It's one of my favorite things to do with friends! My favorite stores are H&M, J.Crew, Gap, and Nordstrom.
Amy Rodriguez
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You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.
Merle Travis
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In Paris now, when I walk into stores and the shopgirls literally say to me every time, "We don't have anything in your size".
Nan Goldin
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The lights of the little highway town ahead spread with their approach and then scattered like flushed prey as they entered its limits. Under the filling-station sheds, swirling insects clouded the naked bulbs. The stores were closed; the depot dark.
Edward Anderson
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Now the twenty large department stores alone of New York City spend, so it is estimated, $4,000,000 a year for advertising, while one Chicago house is said to appropriate $500,000 a year for publicity...
Hamilton Holt
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I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I collect antiques, so there are a lot of old rocking chairs... My friends call my home the vortex because nobody wants to leave.
Monica Potter
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Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.
Michael Symon
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I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me.
Terry Zwigoff
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In March I had a minor heart attack while I was vacationing in Australia. it scared me, but it was nothing compared to what someone had in store for me down the road.
Richard Pryor
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
Seneca the Younger
