#stores

I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there were other people who devoted their lives to making those words into books. It was lovely. Like standing in the middle of civilization. ↗

— Jerry Pinto

#bookstores #reading #love

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#bookstores #history #literature #philosophy #reading

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#back #box #boxes #business #cardboard

Every year we close 300-400 stores anyway, just relocations. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

#close #every #just #stores #year

There were around 1,000 stores when I was made president. ↗

— Fred L. Turner

#i #made #president #stores #were

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

At several such places we landed, but always found the ascent to the interior so covered with large loose rocks that it would have been impossible to have disembarked stores or stock on any. ↗

— George Grey

#any #ascent #been #covered #found

Most companies that are great at something - like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores - do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#aol #because #become #bookstores #borders

I generally sell my records online or at the show. You can undersell the distributor and the stores, and people know what they're getting cause they've just seen you live. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#distributor #generally #getting #i #just

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#almost #chain #i #i think #malls