Store Quotes

“The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“Even if we have bad feelings about our past and it causes a sense of alienation, it belongs to our history. Its benchmarks are stored in the granary of our mind and crucial evaluations for the future cannot be made without consulting the archive of our memory. ( “Not without the past”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“Nothing belongs to itself anymore.
These trees are yours because you once looked at them.
These streets are yours because you once traversed them.
These coffee shops and bookshops, these cafés and bars, their sole owner is you.
They gave themselves so willingly, surrendering to your perfume.
You sang with the birds and they stopped to listen to you.
You smiled at the sheepish stars and they fell into your hair.
The sun and moon, the sea and mountain, they have all left from heartbreak.
Nothing belongs to itself anymore.
You once spoke to Him, and then God became yours.
He sits with us in darkness now
to plot how to make you ours.” K.K.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“One of Francie's favorite stores was the one which sold nothing but tea, coffee, and spices. It was an exciting place of rows of lacquered bins and strange, romantic, exotics odors. There were a dozen scarlet coffee bins with adventurous words written across the front in black China ink: Brazil! Argentine! Turkish! Java! Mixed Blend! The tea was in smaller bins: beautiful bins with sloping covers. They read: Oolong! Formosa! Orange Pekoe! Black China! Flowering Almond! Jasmine! Irish Tea! The spices were in miniature bins behind the counter. Their names marches in a row across the shelves: cinnamon-- cloves-- ginger-- all-spice-- ball nutmeg--curry-- peppercorns-- sage-- thyme-- marjoram.”
― Betty Smith

“And suddenly, not a soul's at the store as for other & similar & just as blank reasons, they've gone to the silence, the suppers of their own mystery.”
― Jack Kerouac, Book of Sketches

“I took her dress over to the closet and hung it up. It was funny. It made me feel sort of sad when I hung it up. I thought of her going in a store and buying it, and nobody in the store knowing she was a prostitute and all. The salesman probably just thought she was a regular girl when she bought it. It made me feel sad as hell- I don't know why exactly.”
― J.D. Salinger

“I left the bank
because they wouldn’t deposit
my cheque of poems.
So I went to the store,
but they didn’t accept
my currency of words.
So I boxed all my stories
and took them to charity.
But they refused my donation
and asked me to give blood instead.
I opened the notebooks
and made them look, 'What do you think
I wrote these in?”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Magic?" What did magic have to do with breaking into someone's store and stealing their stuff?
"Don't you get it?" Peter said. "You're free now. You don't have to live by their rules anymore." Peter pointed into the inky blackness of the basement. "The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race, listen to it. That's the sound of being alive. It's your time, Nick. Your one chance to have fun before it's all stolen by them, the adults, with their cruelty and endless rules, their can't-do-this, and can't-do-that's, their have-tos, and better-dos, their little boxes and cages all designed to break your spirit, to kill your magic.”
― Brom

“The Dalai Lama walks into a pizza store... and says, "Can you make me one with everything?”
― Santosh Kalwar, Gags and Extracts

“If you do writing, people will store your gigawords.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“The appetite of my ego always exceeds the grocery store of my soul.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A convenience store is not merely a place where customers come to buy practical necessities, it has to be somewhere they can enjoy and take pleasure in discovering things they like.”
― Sayaka Murata

“I couldn't stop hearing the store telling me the way it wanted to be, what it needed. It was all flowing into me. It wasn't me speaking. It was the store. I was just channeling its revelations from on high.”
― Sayaka Murata, コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]

“The difference between time and money is that money can be stored for future use. Most people make the mistake of saving money by wasting their time.”
― J.R. Rim

“Also, he always stopped before the music and piano store. It was a splendid store. And in the window was a small white dog upon his haunches, with head cocked gravely to one side, a small white dog that never moved, that never barked, that listened attentively at the flaring funnel of a horn to hear "His Master's Voice" -a horn forever silent, and a voice that never spoke.”
― Thomas Wolfe, The Lost Boy

“I caught sight of myself reflected in the window of the convenience store I'd just come out of. My hands, my feet—they existed only for the store! For the first time, I could think of the me in the window as a being with meaning.

"Irasshaimasé!”
― Sayaka Murata, コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]

“I am easy to spot in the store, as I am the one wearing the COVID-19 preventive hazmat suit.”
― Steven Magee

“When people ask me why I wear a hazmat suit to the store, my response is always ‘COVID-19 is a killer virus and I do not want to die’.”
― Steven Magee

“Ideas aren’t meant to be stored in the mind. They are to be nurtured, unleashed, and enjoyed.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom

“Resonating the first half of the highest quality material known to man.
Previously worked out, I embraced the back story never told but retold as practical reality. All I ask and bleed, there's nothing more to be felt as a man anymore. Most rebuild to be included, invoking the awakening stages of beautiful death; resonating with frozen lakes, dirty films we made and seven million pounds of sorrow disguised as drifting smoke that showed me the path out the final frame of reference.”
― Brandon Villasenor, Prima Materia

“Demeter's Grove was a "new age" kind of store, as they were calling them these days, and Autumn sold everything from incense and candles to especially elemental stones to clothing to books. She was used to inviting all kinds of strangers and friends into her kitchen; demonstrations- cooking, baking, tincture or poultice-making- were another dimension of her business.”
― Amy S. Foster, When Autumn Leaves

“The smartest person in the store is wearing a hazmat suit, gas mask, googles and rubber gloves.”
― Steven Magee

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― Awake Graphics Boutique Art Store

“By offering cheaper prices online, the retailer educated me to never purchase in their physical store. By offering unconditional returns, they taught me to return poor products. By blocking my ability to return poor products because I made too many returns, they conditioned me to always shop at their competitors.”
― Steven Magee

“Christmas doesn’t come from the store to sit under the tree;
It’s comes from the heart and is spread for free.”
― Nadine Sadaka Boulos

“In America, if the wrong party gets in you just go to the store, buy a gun and a ton of ammo! Some elections are known to cause a spike in gun sales.”
― Steven Magee

“Isabella Janke , As a Store Manager you have to keep eye on all products and their available stock must be on your finger tips.”
― Isabella Janke

“Store your dreams in your memory’s travel bag, for one day, they will be needed in the course of your life’s journey.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“I always look for the vitamin or electrolyte water when I buy a drink at the store. It is the same price as a bottle of water!”
― Steven Magee