Checkout Quotes
27 quotes by 24 authors
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I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'
— Erma Bombeck
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There's a game called Checkout where there's grocery items and it's how much you think the manufacturer's suggested retail price is and we add up…
— Drew Carey
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The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles…
— David Foster Wallace
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Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket's checkout line is just as bored and frustrated…
— David Foster Wallace
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If you are demanding registration before checkout, you need to cease this practice immediately. It is costing you a fortune.
— Bruce Tognazzini
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Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of…
— Stephen King
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That's like buying asparagus and then leaving it at the checkout. Why would you do that?
— Deborah King
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These days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie theater, at a…
— Sherry Turkle
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Self-Checkout Line – The place where customers of an establishment become unpaid employees of the establishment.
— Richard Turner
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Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john.
— Stephen King
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I think, on a personal level, everybody, when you go through the checkout line after you get your groceries and they say, 'Paper or plastic?'…
— Woody Harrelson
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Self-checkout is negative because more and more retailers are losing the personal touch. People want to do business where people know their name and communicate…
— Debbie Allen
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I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it was…
— Rashida Jones
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Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with…
— Julian Baggini
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Here are some passing thoughts. Imagine looking up at the moon and seeing it burning. Imagine seeing the grocery store’s checkout girl grow horns. Imagine…
— Douglas Coupland
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...when the armed robber of unhappiness knocks over the Keebler cookie display of our complacency, and bangs the samurai sword of negativity on the checkout…
— Dave Barry
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Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing…
— Jodi Picoult
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Don't believe everything you read. It's very difficult to be accepting of our own bodies. This topic deserves it's own book, but since I'm not…
— Ally Carter
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Once she'd loved my filet mignon, my carnivore inklings, but now she was a vegan princess, living off of beans. She'd given up the cheese…
— Sarah Dessen
Who Wrote These Checkout Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 27 Checkout Quotes as follows: