“There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.”

“California, the department store state.”

Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) Novelist, screenwriter

“Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.”

Christopher Moore book A Dirty Job

“If I'm president, you're going to see 'Merry Christmas' in department stores, believe me.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

“History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.”

Howard Zinn (1922–2010) author and historian

“You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

“To me, America used to be a place that made steel, and cars, and had giant department stores. Now, basically, we produce amateur talent and people [who] judge amateur talent.”

Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor

“You can't please all the people all the time. And yesterday, all those people were at my show.”

Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005) American stand-up comedian

“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

“Tcl long ago fell into the Forth trap, and is now trying desperately to extricate itself (with some help from Sun's marketing department).”

Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl