Department Stores Quotes - Page 3

• From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

  Christie Hefner

  Girl, Baby, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.

  Raymond Chandler

  California, States, Stores

  1949 The Little Sister, ch.13.

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• I despise shopping and department stores.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Shopping, Stores, Despise

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• Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.

  Christopher Moore

  Hate, Kids, People

  "A Dirty Job". Book by Christopher Moore, 2006.

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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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• There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Power

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• When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Jobs, Home, College

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• When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.

  Hilary Mantel

  Clothes, Should Have, Size

  Hilary Mantel (2004). “Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir”, p.197, Macmillan

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• No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Mean, Artist, Thinking

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• Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Stupid, Writing, Intelligent

  "Player Piano". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1952.

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• California, the department store state.

  Raymond Chandler

  California, Dignity, States

  1949 The Little Sister, ch.13.

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• I walked inside Macy’s and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for themselves. Without the instant gratification of a self-aimed purchase, everyone walked around in the tactical stupor of the financially obligated.

  Rachel Cohn

  Christmas, Self, Shopping

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.32, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• That whole week, we started to divide things into those two categories: anything or something. A piece of jewelry bougth at a department store: anything. A piece of jewelry made by hand: something. A dollar: anything. A sand dollar: something. A gift certificate: anything. An IOU for two hours of starwatching: something. A drunk kiss at a party: anything. A sober kiss alone in a park: something.

  David Levithan

  Party, Kissing, Hands

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• The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor.

  Lauren Hutton

  Makeup, Lasts, Needs

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• Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks ... all lovely and loose and jingly.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Beautiful, Attitude, Teenager

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• While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape and the skyline of American cities have boasted their hotels, department stores, office buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers. In this grandeur, Americans have expressed their Booster Pride, their hopes for visitors and new settlers, and customers, for thriving commerce and industry.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Pride, Government, Cities

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• As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.

  Ben Katchor

  Book, Kids, World

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2011.

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• Buildings are seldom just buildings in downtown Chicago, they are Examples, and not a city on Earth, I swear, is as knowledgeably preoccupied with architectural meaning. Where else would a department store include in its advertisements the name of the architect who created it, or a newspaper property section throw in a scholarly exposition of theoretical design?

  Jan Morris

  Cities, Names, Design

  Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It's not exactly under the radar, but when I'm in London, I love to visit Liberty. It's my favorite department store, and they have a room entirely dedicated to chocolate and truffles.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Chocolate, Liberty, London

  “Power Shopping: ‘Revenger’s Ashley Madekwe Reveals her Fasion Favorites” by Lyndsay Flans, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 29, 2012.

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• I have fantasy jobs like working in retail at a department store just selling rich housewives outfits and saying 'this looks fabulous on you! Let me find a matching handbag!' Then, the other is being like some sort of Vice or taskforce, law enforcement, undercover [person]. Or possibly someday becoming a guerilla activist - I'm kind of in-training for that now anyways. So, maybe my retirement will be jumping on ships, kidnapping, and [participating in] espionage. I still fantasize.

  Mike Ness

  Retirement, Jobs, Jumping

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