Circuit City Quotes & Sayings

There is an advantage to be found in most everything that happens to you, even if it is not immediately apparent. — Jennifer Donnelly

In the end it's all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don't. — Adyashanti

I actually saw a kid and went home and drew him. I don't even know who he was. I was buying a TV set in Circuit City. I was looking at this kid and he was kind of standing there, staring off into space. Kids are pretty chubby nowadays because of all the fast-food places. I grew up eating fast food but now everything is double beef and double cheese. So there are a lot of these chubby boys with long, baggy shorts. — Mike Judge

In my city of Maracay, there is a go kart circuit about five minutes from my home. When I was about three or four years old, I said I wanted to race, but I was too young; then, when I reached the age of seven, my father gave me a kart and we started from there. — Pastor Maldonado

London has a quarter of the whole world's supply of closed circuit cameras, all in one city. — Lee Child

I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little. — Lauryn Hill

In photographs taken from the sky, cities resembled circuit boards. It was no surprise, really, that there were sparky misfirings, dangerous connections. Even traffic, Alice concluded, set up a kind of static in the air, let loose vibrations and uncontainable agitation. Freighted with more than they could absorb, with city intentions, citizens moved in designs of inexplicable purpose. — Gail Jones

It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn how to spot a stereotype, isolate a social cliche, and distinguish facts from propaganda, analysis from banter and important news from coverage. — Ernest L. Boyer

Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where you are. — Chris Prentiss

I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. — Anonymous

It gave me a little plastic book with four fold-outs, maps of the city's transit system. When I wanted to go somewhere, I touched the silver-printed name - street, level, square - and instantly on the map a circuit of all the necessary connections lit up. I could also travel by gleeder. Or by rast. Or - finally - on foot; therefore, four maps — Stanislaw Lem

I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one's work. — Bernard Hinault

What this means is that the entire business model for something like Chase's credit card business is not much more than a gigantic welfare fraud scheme. These companies borrow hundreds of billions of dollars from the Fed at rock-bottom rates, then turn around and lend it out to the world at 5, 10, 15, 20 percent, as credit cards and mortgages, boat loans and aircraft loans, and so on. If you pay it back, great, it's a 500 percent or 1,000 percent or 4,000 percent profit for the bank. If you don't pay it back, the company can put your name in the hopper to be sued. A $5,000 debt on a credit card for the now-defunct Circuit City, which was actually a Chase card, became a $13,000 or $14,000 debt by the time the bank finished applying fees and penalties. Just like a welfare application, you have to read the fine print. "They make more on lawsuits than they make on credit interest," says Linda. — Matt Taibbi

I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood why people would shop there. I always thought Best Buy had a better selection and cheaper prices. — Kerry King

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it. — Sarah Caldwell

A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give. — Mignon McLaughlin

Sanity is not statistical. — George Orwell

New York. The world's most dramatic city. Like a permanent short circuit, sputtering and sparking up into the night sky all night long. No place like it for living. And probably no place like it for dying.
("New York Blues") — Cornell Woolrich

He spoke as a disappointed man, for whom perfection existed only as something remembered - and then regretted, because it was lost. — Eleanor Catton