Thrift Quotations

As a kid, I loved going to lots of thrift stores with my parents. There was a period where I thought it was embarrassing, and then I started to get older - I realized they were really cool.

You re-watch 'Napoleon Dynamite', and there's a lot of thrift shopping that goes on in that movie; there's a lot of funny stuff. It's definitely amusing, and paying 99 cents for a samurai sword is amazing.

Some of my favorite pieces are from thrift shops. When I find something I really love, I live, work and sleep in it.

Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.

I'm on tour all the time, so I stop at thrift shops. The minute we hit a town, I'll have my assistant Googling thrift stores. I have him go check beforehand; then we go there.

I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.

I'm not too big on accessories, but I love my basic black quartz watch from American Apparel. It's a simple piece that goes with my vintage, thrift store chic style.

I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out.

Old is unwanted. You don't find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone.

Most people have a perception that comes from five years ago of that dinky little thrift store on the corner. The reality is once people walk into the new stores, it changes their perceptions almost immediately.

Mr. President, economy is an old-fashioned thing. It savors of horse and buggy days. I am only too glad, however, to say a few words in behalf of economy, for in economy, in frugality, and in the thrift of our Government I think we shall ultimately find ourselves and our salvation.

Ms. Lau has an outstanding record of achievement at American and is successfully transforming the bank from a retail thrift to a full-service community bank.

My heart starts to palpitate when I see an open sign at a thrift store. Especially, an uncharted one I've never seen before.

Fundamentally, the basis of all modern progress is the efficiency of labor. And the only sure road to restored prosperity is through the thrift and hard work of our people as a whole.

I get my clothes from three sources: Target, thrift shops, and friends. It's simple and it's cheap.

Humans are creatures of waste, so it is our duty to minimize our consumption and to ensure that we, as individuals are worthy of the waste that is created. A dull whining paranoiac who is a model of thrift but of little else is more symbolic of waste than an interesting and creative materialist.

People are learning that they can decorate their homes well using items from a thrift store or consignment shop. They can find a lot of things. Used furniture doesn't have the negative connotation it once did.

Our big project is the Golden Goose Thrift shop. It has truly been the golden goose that has laid the golden egg for us.

July was a tough month for us, and the remainder of the year looks like it will be just as challenging. But we believe that we have the right plans and the best people in our industry to build sales in every market, reduce spending, consider thrift as a way of life and continue to provide the best service and value to our customers.

That was it. Suddenly you hit puberty, and it's like, you know, thrift stores! I just started deconstructing everything from thrift stores.

Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

The reason the recovery was so feeble was you still had these hangover effects from the real estate and banking sectors, ... Real estate was still reeling from excess capacity and the whole thrift industry had been decimated by bad loans.

We see what happens to this money when it gets to the fourth and fifth generation of the same family: thrift is gone, the work ethic is gone.

was about admitting my guilt of promoting new clothes each season. There was something that didn't feel morally exactly right about it. Enough money is squandered on fashion - I wanted to make a statement that clothes from the past are still valid. We chose Oxfam because it's where so many stylists get thrift from, and it felt circular for the money to go back to Oxfam.

Fashion is such a weird thing. Growing up, I just made do with whatever I had access to - a lot of hand-me-downs and thrift store shopping.

There's still a very great need for that. Monroe is an affluent town, but there are people here who depend on thrift shops.

The toy industry, in cooperation with the CPSC, does a good job of getting items off the store shelves in the event of a recall. But you'll still find a lot of recalled items at thrift stores.

I've always enjoyed searching for clothes. I like thrift stores and vintage stuff, and not so much going to Urban Outfitters. What got me interested is having to choose dresses for the carpet, and doing a lot of shoots with really cool clothes. I've gotten to try on a lot of things that I've liked, and some things that I haven't.

RAPACITY, n. Providence without industry. The thrift of power.

Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.

All of our clothing came from thrift stores or Wal-Mart, and we did our own stunts.

A lot of people think we take items and give them to people in need. Most often, we sell them in the thrift store. And all those proceeds go to a very specific service: drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers.

It's the largest thrift in the country. It has had an excellent track record in both operations and acquisitions. It is growing at about 12-15 percent and trading at about 6 1/2 times earnings.

The Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers program and a variation of the Thrift Savings Plan, the Military Savings Plan, being opened up to active-duty military personnel were the result of AFAP initiatives.

That's a marvelous accomplishment, ... The Thrift Shop is an amazing support mechanism for teachers and students." ()

In late October we were informed that our local St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store would be closing.

If you have an item you think is OK, but are unsure, you can contact your local thrift store and they can let you know if they have the capability to repair items.

Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

Thrift is of great revenue.

Thrift is a great revenue.

Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.

The magnitude for trying to create an administrative system and make it functional for 140 million people (in Social Security) could be done, but it will take years. The federal thrift program is having problems and that's a lot fewer people.

The group that does costumes for the Tennessee Repertory Theater is doing our costumes. We have access to their stuff and we have the ability to have stuff made. It's wonderful to have our own costumer instead of having to go to thrift stores all the time. That's actually where most of our budget went.

The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.

A penny saved is a penny to squander.

You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law.