Drugstore Quotes

Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised.

Jackie was speaking at a drugstore, and I said, ‘I’m not going to get this opportunity again, so I better take my chances and listen to Jackie Robinson now.’ Little did I know, I got front row seats, and next to me was my father.

Every modern woman shops everywhere for beauty, but for me it’s mostly the airport or the drugstore.

I mask every single day. I mask every morning – since I was 27 years old. I don’t care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it’s my routine that I commit to every single day.

In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope.

I treat myself to facials now, but even when I couldn’t afford to do that, I’d get scrubs and masks from the drugstore.

I need to make sure that when I’m running out to the drugstore I’m not wearing a Biore strip or something. Not that I expect anyone to recognize me, but on the off chance they do, I just don’t want to embarrass myself.

If you’re impatient while waiting for the bus, tell yourself you’re doing ‘Bus waiting meditation.’ If you’re standing in a slow line at the drugstore, you’re doing ‘Waiting in line meditation.’ Just saying these words makes me feel very spiritual and high-minded and wise.

The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.

What I find is that you don’t need to go for fancy mascara – I always get the L’Oreal ones from the drugstore. I get the gold tube, Voluminous Million Lashes in black.

You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it’s all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.

I’m a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.

One of my favorite drugstore brands is NYX.

The point of that is, if you look at Walgreen’s history, they’ve always been pioneers in the application of technology. They’re the only drugstore chain that I know to have their own satellite.

Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.

That’s where I got my start and where I’ll continue to work, but I can’t tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn’t choose me.

My mother taught me to appreciate a good drugstore beauty aisle. I regularly use Aquaphor, Chap Stick, Purpose Face Soap, and Aveeno body moisturizer.

For makeup, I swear by a base of Embryolisse, Nars concealer, that Bobbie Brown foundation stick, Pat’s highlighter, a brow fill-in with dark brown eyeshadow and angle brush, a groom with Anastasia brow gel, an eyelash curl, and two swipes of drugstore mascara.

I’ve been there a thousand years, and I never felt comfortable. Beverly Hills – when I first saw it, I thought they put it up this morning. You got to pack water to get to the drugstore.

I’ve never dyed my hair or even gotten highlights. All the products I need for my hair are at the drugstore!

I only use one mascara and it’s actually a drugstore one: the L’Oreal Paris Double Extend Beauty Tubes mascara.

I usually put on a lip and some mascara before I head out of the house. It makes me feel good. I started experimenting with makeup back in high school. One of my friends, who shall remain nameless, shoplifted a bunch of drugstore cosmetics for me, and I would just play with it in my room at night.

It is sad that the more ‘successful’ a neighborhood becomes, the more it gradually takes on a recognizable, common look, as the same banks, drugstore chains and national brands move in.

My routine definitely starts with brows. I do add a little bit of mascara – even to the gym. I have to! I love Maybelline and Covergirl, just drugstore brands. I’m telling you, they’re the best.

I’ve been a regular customer at CVS Pharmacy, the country’s second-largest drugstore chain, for 20 years. I’ve spent a small fortune there over that span, visiting several times a week to pick up everything from milk to toothpaste to prescriptions.

My favorite drugstore product is Clean and Clear makeup removing cleanser. It gets the makeup off in one wash – not three or four.

I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That’s how it started.

I’ve never been able to keep track of an umbrella, but then my dad gave me this fancy umbrella. It was in his car, and I had again lost some awful Duane Reade disaster umbrella. It was my first adult umbrella that wasn’t from a drugstore, and I have left it all over New York, and every time, I went back to get it.

‘The Outsiders’ died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.

As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents’ empathy – they encouraged constant trips to the local drugstore for chocolate milk shakes to fatten me up. The shakes made me happy, but still, all through grammar school, other kids shoved me around.