Warehouse Quotes

• Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.

  C. J. Cherryh

  Moving, Information, Trade

  C. J. Cherryh (1993). “Chanur's Legacy”, p.140, Penguin

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• My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions.
  I lock away the things that do not serve me.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Mind, Locks, Emotion

  Tahereh Mafi (2012). “Destroy Me”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness

  Rowan Williams

  Humanity, Selfishness, Used

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• If I don't have room for an item, I put it in warehouses.

  Ursula Andress

  Rooms, Items, Ifs

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• I used to always work in, like, warehouses, because if my boss gave me a rough time, I could just get on a forklift and just, like, drive away from him.

  Bill Burr

  Boss, Rough Times, Used

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• Auschwitz was one of the wealthiest places in the world. Everyone who was deported there had been in such a hurry that they were only able to take along the things they loved the most. Well, of course, a musician would take along her instrument. But then they would take these precious possessions away from the prisoners once they arrived. All these things were kept in a part of the camp the prisoners called "Canada." It was like a giant warehouse.

  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

  Musician, Giants, Precious Possessions

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills

  Amiri Baraka

  People, Social, Cures

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• The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.

  Karl Marx

  Raw Materials, May, Stores

  Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Bibbins Aveling, Friedrich Engels (1961). “Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production”

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• Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

  Val Kilmer

  People, Interesting, Creative

  Interview With Piotr Uklanski, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 24, 2011.

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• Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

  H. G. Wells

  Book, Reading, Ideas

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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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• Firemen don't talk about whether a burning warehouse is worth saving.

  Sebastian Junger

  Burning, Saving, Fireman

  "Oscar Nominee Sebastian Junger Speaks About His Year in Deadliest Place on Earth". Interview With Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 18, 2011.

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• News reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense that, at this moment, people are working, organising - not just at an executive level, but on the floor, in the warehouse. A man is packing a box of oral rehydration tablets; maternity kits are being prepared; education kits are being packed. And somewhere, tomorrow, those boxes will be unpacked and a child with life-threatening diarrhoea will be saved, a baby will be born in more hygienic circumstances, a girl will receive her first exercise book and her first pencil.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Sympathy, Girl, Baby

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• IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Liars, Science, Imagination

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.96, 谷月社

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• The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.

  Camille Paglia

  Accomplishment, Males, Retail

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.56, Yale University Press

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• Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!

  Tennessee Williams

  Men, Play, Hunters

  Tennessee Williams (1999). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.34, New Directions Publishing

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• The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Cities, Shops, Commerce

  Katharine Lee Bates (1907). “From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in England”

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• A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of a free spirit put under restraint.

  Joseph Conrad

  Wall, Sadness, Free Spirit

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.475, e-artnow

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• I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses.

  Saul Bellow

  Clever, Thinking, Age

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• There ought to be only one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is one must be half a tradesman.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Art, Half, World

  Ludwig Van Beethoven (2004). “Beethoven: The Man and the Artist”, p.56, 1st World Publishing

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• In a corporate context, companies have to try very hard to oppose the enticements of conventional wisdom. They must aim for the leaps, which means that companies have to do more than simply manage their knowledge, which is composed of the insights and understandings they already know. They also have to manage the knowledge-generation process. It's not just about, "Oh, we're going to create a data warehouse and we are going to invent a computerized filing system to get at all the stuff we know."

  John Kao

  Mean, Data, Understanding

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• What are you" -Mac "I don't follow" -Jericho "You dropped 30 feet in that warehouse. You should have broken something. What are you?" -Mac "A man with a rope." -Jericho

  Karen Marie Moning

  Men, Should Have, Feet

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• Lavina led me to an abandoned warehouse. I think that at some point someone decreed that all clandestine meetings must be held in one. Woe to the criminal overlord who lives in a city thriving with commerce, with no empty warehouses to be found. He probably needs to build one, just to have a place to arrange late-night meetings. (Bewitched)

  Kelley Armstrong

  Night, Thinking, Cities

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “Tales of the Otherworld”, p.49, Bantam

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• I volunteered on a farming community in Israel for two years when I was a teenager. One of the jobs involved clearing out a massive warehouse full of chickens ready for the abattoir. The smell of 40,000 chickens in 45C is awful.

  Nick Frost

  Jobs, Teenager, Israel

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• Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Brain, World

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.17, Melville House

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