#stores

His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members of the Graf Zeppelin Club or shopped at the Chinese department stores, for their mastery of an exotic foreign ritual. Besides, those who worked hardest for others, like Mrs. Philips and Mrs. Gilmour and Dr. Ransome, often held beliefs that turned out to be correct. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#chinese-department-stores #christianity #the-graf-zeppelin-club #respect

On Mallrats, a lot of times they'd have to come find me. I'd be off hanging around. Looking around the stores, hanging out with people. So, he'd have to come find me. ↗

— Jason Mewes

#come #find #hanging #i #looking

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

#called #clothes #college #damaged #department

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#department stores #die #go #i #just

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#be nice #books #briefcase #computer #design

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

#department #department stores #designers #did #different

I don't get to go to the super fancy stores unless I am in L.A. so you stay pretty real and normal that way. ↗

— Kelly Preston

#fancy #get #go #i #i am

We want to set a tone going into our fiscal year that starts Feb. 1, that Wal-Mart Stores is going to be aggressive in taking care of customers, taking care of our associates, communications and merchandising. ↗

— Lee Scott

#associates #care #communications #customers #fiscal

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#album cover #anything #around #attention #band

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#book-stores #books #london #reading #life