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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 (2004). “Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir”, p.197, Macmillan
  • Department store Santas are apparently being trained to lower children's expectations about toys because of the recession. Yeah, it's weird when you ask Santa for a train set and he's like, 'Yeah, how 'bout a bus token?

  • I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.

  • The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.

    Eye   Names   House  
  • You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.

  • The person I love would never wear fur. Fur just makes me think of shallow women who have no conscience. The fur industry belongs to a time when people were selfish beyond belief. If you were some ancient tribal cheiftain, and there was not a department store nearby 350 years ago, I'd understand. But now, we have synthetic fibers,and it's not necessary. The elitism of fur makes me wanna puke.

  • If - and it can be in a movie or in a department store - I hear someone arguing with their child, I break down and cry. Because it reflects how I was treated when I was little.

    Source: www.today.com
  • Wonderful, I like cars, too, I like all the great things you can buy in a department store. But when you have to buy them in order to stay unaware, comatose, then the price you pay is too high.

    Order   Car   Pay  
    "Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History". Book by Siegfried Zielinski, 1999.
  • Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white, how can I walk through a department store and still have people scared that I'm going to rob them? Which, that can still happen.

    White   People   Mind  
  • 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.

    Jobs   Home   College  
  • If I see a movie star in the department store buying something, I'll kind of sidle up and see what they're saying, what they look like, how they sound. That's an invasion of privacy.

    Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2000.
  • I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

    Art   Thinking   People  
  • The lady across the hall tried to rob a department store . . . with a pricing gun. She said, "Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'm marking down everything in the store."

    Funny   Money   Humor  
  • 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.

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

    Funny   Humor   Power  
  • 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.

    Hate   Kids   People  
    "A Dirty Job". Book by Christopher Moore, 2006.
  • I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well.

  • If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes-the most beautiful, the more expensive, the more eccentric. I would take risks. The worst thing would be to buy only the little black dress. You know why? Because everyone has it already. I would go with a purple dress, something different

    Beautiful   Purple   Risk  
  • Curiously, ghosts are rarely if ever seen in the nude. They appear fully clothed, and may even change clothing on subsequent appearances. They may change their form, to appear as they looked at different stages of their lives. Unless someone out there knows of an extoplasmic department store on the spiritual plane, we have to wonder, "Where do the clothes and accessories come from?

    Loyd Auerbach (2005). “Hauntings and Poltergeists: A Ghost Hunter's Guide”, p.77, Ronin Publishing
  • 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.

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

    Funny   Nature   Humor  
  • When I started, department stores were either very fashion, or very tailored, so the two never mixed. I mixed it, and they said you're too tailored for fashion and too fashion for tailoring. So I had to move the market. So that's what I did.

    Fashion   Moving   Two  
    "Ozwald Boateng: does my head look big in this?". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 09, 2012.
  • 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, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.32, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • Sex is an extremely subtle undertaking, unlike going to the department store on a Sunday to buy a thermos.

    Sex   Sunday   Subtle  
    Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage
  • California, the department store state.

    1949 The Little Sister, ch.13.
  • 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?

    Cities   Names   Design  
    Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.

    Stores   Found   Chains  
  • 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.

    Girl   Baby   Years  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • I despise shopping and department stores.

  • The first job I got when I was in high school was working for a department store in New York. I worked in the stockroom. That's when I learned that I couldn't work for anyone else, because I was spoken to in a way that I wasn't spoken to at home.

    Jobs   New York   Home  
    Source: www.ebony.com
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