A Quote by Marlene Dietrich

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera. — © Marlene Dietrich
H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.
Most of my colleagues go on backpacking trips when they have to do some thinking. I go to a good hardware store and head for the oiliest, dustiest corners... If they're really good, they don't hassle me. They let me wander around and think. Young hardware clerks have a lot of hubris. They think they can help you find anything... Old hardware clerks have learned the hard way that nothing in a hardware store ever gets bought for its nominal purpose. You buy something that was designed to do one thing, and you use it for another.
When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.
I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly.
We're not in hardware for hardware's sake. We're in hardware to be able to express all our platform and productivity software in a way that's unique.
I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Canterbury. But I worked part-time all the way through high school: first with a paper round, then at a fast-food outlet, a video store and a hardware store.
I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house.
I didn't just work at a hardware store. I went to college for a second, and I worked there on breaks or during the summer.
In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
I have a very difficult time describing my music. Because I run into people in the hardware store and they go, 'Oh, you're a musician. So what kind of music do you play?' And I go, 'Uh, I've been doin' this for many years - I don't know what to call it.'
At a certain point, the services that you build around the hardware become more important than the hardware itself.
I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.
I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were
In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm .
My father's an opera nut, and my stepmother used to work at the Metropolitan Opera, so I had a lot of opera immersion. I like the grandness and pretention of it.
That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.
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