Department Store Quotes
On counters, holiday jobs, and the pull of wanting something.
These department store quotes trace early jobs, like wrapping gifts one holiday season among experienced staff, and interviews for retail positions after college that paid less than expected in the Job market.
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...
I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me.
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I had 13 job offers out of college. I went to Bullock's department store and had a fantastic interview, but was skeptical. I knew retail didn't pay much.
There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.
America Quotes
The department store was a product of the 19th century and became a very important institution as America went into the 20th century. It provided show places in developing towns like Terre Haute, Sacramento, and Dallas.
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
I remember walking into a department store and you would hear an instrumental version of a Beatles song and it was usually kinda cheesy and very un-rock. Kenny G, for example, is a musician that I certainly dont want to...
I'd go into a department store now and buy everything. It's who I am. I just love cosmetics.
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The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor.
Back when I was 15 or 16, in Dallas there was a department store called Sanger-Harris. One holiday season, I got a job as a gift wrapper there. The others were all experts who did that job every year, and...
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...
As you get older, your skin tone will change, and that means the colours that suit you best change, too. Take a trip to a department store and ask for advice, or simply hold colours close to your face in...
After leaving school, I got a job in a department store not dissimilar to Grace Bros in 'Are You Being Served?'
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The wonderful police officers who spend time with me I don't think appreciate that, but I do still drive. I do still cook: not often, but just last week, I really felt like making one of my mum's old recipes...
I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.
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,...
Saks is one of the temples of good-quality products in America. The Saks shop in New York, for me, is the most interesting department store in America.
I think having worked in a department store setting, if my life had not taken a drastically different turn when I became an actor, there's a very high probability I would have continued to work at the department store.
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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.
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One quote recalls counting out small coins to finally satisfy a childhood longing at the counter. Another remembers never seeing a store Santa at all growing up in America.
