#store

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#books #bookstore #branch #chain #city

Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#coming #everyone #hand #out #perfume

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be "gotcha" journalism, but it's also good journalism. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#been #finds #good #investigative #journalism

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#am #bookstore #card #clerks #credit

I like loud music. I like music that fills my ears. I'm just going to pull out my iPod and see what we got here. We're always interested in new bands because we have a retail store in northern California. I think it's got to be happy. ↗

— Tyler Florence

#bands #be happy #because #california #ears

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store. ↗

— George Foreman

#day #dream #get #grocery #grocery store

I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings. ↗

— Vera Wang

#girl #go #i #likes #lunch

Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers. ↗

— Jim Woodring

#book #cartoonists #comic #comic book #get

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#before #began #bookstore #came #composing

I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#i #instruments #into #kids #little