Quotes about Department Store

I worked at the cosmetic counter at a fine department store. Votes: 2

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators. Votes: 2

I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Chinese people, young people, they don't go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business. Votes: 2

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established. Votes: 2

It's not exactly under the radar, but when I'm in London, I love to visit Liberty. It's my favorite department store, and they have a room entirely dedicated to chocolate and truffles. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I worked for a big department store, and strangely, on my first day, they put me in charge of Christmas wrapping. I didn't know how to wrap a present and make it not look like it fell off a truck. Votes: 2

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 them? Which, that can still happen. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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 up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household. Votes: 2

When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like. Votes: 2

I worked in fashion, but I worked more in the sales side of fashion than in design. I was an assistant buyer for a department store back in the '70s and the early years of Saint Laurent. And I used to have a lot of private clients that I bought for. Votes: 2

I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don't know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in a bank. Votes: 2

There's a lot of movies that aren't all about Christmas, or where Christmas isn't the focus, but have that spirit of Christmas in them. I love that sequence in 'Auntie Mame,' where she's in the department store, sewing at Macy's, and she doesn't know how to do anything but fill out a form as 'cash on delivery!' Votes: 2

California, the department store state. Votes: 0

I worked at the cosmetic counter at a fine department store Votes: 0

California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing. Votes: 0

You can set off bells when you walk out of a drugstore or department store with a tagged item. Votes: 0

Sex is an extremely subtle undertaking, unlike going to the department store on a Sunday to buy a thermos. Votes: 0

Our local department store had two Santas - one for regular kids and one for kids who wanted ten toys or less. Votes: 0

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well. Votes: 0

Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established. Votes: 0

I remember when I took a temp job... so I got a job at a department store. Something temporary to put on my resume, my parents said. Yeah... till I die! Votes: 0

I was in a department store and I saw a weird-looking gadget. I asked the young saleslady what it was. She answered, "It doesn't do anything. It's just a Christmas gift." Votes: 0

The lady across the hall tried to rob a department store . . . with a pricing gun. She said, "Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'm marking down everything in the store." Votes: 0

If I see a movie star in the department store buying something, I'll kind of sidle up and see what they're saying, what they look like, how they sound. That's an invasion of privacy. Votes: 0

I felt as if I were sitting in the window of an enormous department store. The figures around me weren't people, but shop dummies, painted to resemble people and propped up in attitudes counterfeiting life. Votes: 0