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Quotes About Staples

consumer staples include food, beverages, and household products that consumers need to buy in good times and bad.
~ John J. Murphy
leadership by consumer staples is usually associated with a market top. That would also have suggested rotating out of stocks and into bonds or gold.
~ John J. Murphy
Consumer staples usually underperform the S&P 500 during bull markets and outperform it during bear markets.
~ John J. Murphy
I used to work for the Clippers - I sold tickets - so I was in the Staples Center all the time. I'm a big Clippers fan.
~ Charles Michael Davis
Certain things work on paper held together with staples. Comics use bright colors to make things leap off the page, but movies are a different medium.
~ Rob Liefeld
At Glossier, we're creating an edited collection of the best essential products. These are the ones that you reach for every day and will always have a place on your top shelf.
~ Emily Weiss
On the way here, I stopped in the office of a block captain who wanted to tell me about an inmate who was caught with two boxes of staples, a pencil sharpener, sharpener blades, and three jumbo binder rings in his rectum. He became known as "OD," for Office Depot. They never found out what he intended to do with the stuff.
~ Mary Roach
It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.
~ L'Wren Scott
I've been on the other side where I know that a bad day at WWE beats the best day at Staples.
~ Kofi Kingston
What are Americans still buying? Big Macs,Campbell's soup,Hershey's chocolate and Spam--the four food groups of the apocalypse.
~ Frank Rich
I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even, I suddenly remembered, contained no staples. Well, strike that line of defense.
~ Charlaine Harris
Getting away from a white or light colored tuxedo shirt is always a little dangerous. Certain staples shouldn't be mixed with. Light pink or blue is not bad, but again, you're just breaking from a classic.
~ Paul Feig
Farming may have been prompted by social competition, as rival groups competed to host the most lavish feasts; this might explain why, in some parts of the world, luxury foods appear to have been domesticated before staples.
~ Tom Standage
She shut the door and moved on to the floor-to-ceiling cabinets. "There is nothing here. Nothing. What do you eat?" "Ah…" Assail found himself looking at the cousins for aid. "usually we take our meals in town." The scoffing sound certainly appeared like the old-lady equivalent of Fuck that . "I need the staples.
~ J. R. Ward
He opened all the drawers in his desk. All were empty, except that a box of staples lay in one. He pocketed the staples. "I already took the polygraph.
~ Tracy Kidder
In old stapled problems, you can see the TB vaccine marks in the upper left corner where the staples have been removed and replaced, as the problem - even the staple holes of the problem - was copied and sent on to other departments for further action, copying, and stapling.
~ Nicholson Baker
Thank you paper clips, for being like staples that can't commit.
~ Jimmy Fallon
There is no intrinsic reason African countries should be importing, rather than exporting, basic staples like rice or higher value products like frozen chicken, cooking oil, or instant noodles.
~ Arancha Gonzalez
Turmeric or cinnamon? Nuts or raisins? The players may change, but the fundamentals of fluffy, fragrant pilaf are always the same.
~ Claire Saffitz
I don't think people have made staples by hand since the fifteenth century.
~ Lemony Snicket
The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and drugs. The one great difference is that by now the revolution has deprived the mass of consumers of any independent access to the staples of life: clothing, shelter, food, even water. Air remains the only necessity that the average user can still get for himself, and the revolution has imposed a heavy tax on that by way of pollution.
~ Wendell Berry
Sweetcorn, mushy peas, beans, lentils, are all basic staples that can be thrown together into a variety of surprising meals.
~ Jack Monroe
account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca (also called tapioca or cassava), sorghum, millet, beans, barley, and rye.
~ Daniel J. Levitin
Throughout civilization and around the world, six foods have provided our primary fuel: barley, corn, millet, potatoes, rice, and wheat.
~ John A. McDougall