Dime Stores Quotes & Sayings

It seems to me in retrospect that the department stores and the dime stores did an excellent job of extending the 'sacred space' of Christmas in those days. And I sometimes wonder whether for people of no religion, this might have been the only sacred space they knew. When people rail now against the 'commercial nature of Christmas,' I'm always conflicted an unable to respond. Because I think those who would banish commercialism from the holiday fail to understand how precious and comforting the shop displays and music can be. — Anne Rice

This is what's great about sports. This is what the greatest thing about sports is. You play to win the game. Hello? You play to win the game. You don't play it to just play it. That's the great thing about sports: you play to win, and I don't care if you don't have any wins. You go play to win. When you start tellin' me it doesn't matter, then retire. Get out! 'Cause it matters. — Herman Edwards

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

No," moaned Tom in despair. "School. School straight on ahead! Why, why do dime stores show things like that in windows before summer's even over! Ruin half the vacation! — Ray Bradbury

Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse. — Charles Bukowski

Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish. — Leslie Fiedler

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall. — Bob Dylan

Evening attend two "fandangos." Girls not very pretty but exceedingly graceful. [You] pay a dime for a figure and refreshments foryour doxy, who instead of eating prudently stores her cakes, etc., in a basket to be taken home for the family. — Rutherford B. Hayes

Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled. — George Santayana

Many of us are sundials in the shade. Things aren't working, but we are not broken. We are just in the wrong spot. We need to move out of the shade and into the sun, or we need to start chopping down trees. — David J. Rendall

Maybe
we feel
empty
because we
leave
pieces of
ourselves
in all the
things
we used to
love. — Robert M. Drake

Both [Satan and Melkor/Morgoth] are loud in their defiance, claiming that they would "rather rule in hell than serve in heaven". One might have admired these rebel angels if one believed their defiance was in the name of liberty- however, both lied. Their rebellions were only provoked by envy and the usurpers' wishes to take the perceived tyrants' place. Never were two more natural tyrants than Morgoth and Satan. — David Day

I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions. — Ha Jin

I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience. — Jane Elliot