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Quotes About Shopping

I totally deserved this, I realized. I deserved to get captured in this shirt. I was roped in like a calf. Stupid. So stupid. Just because it was on sale, I had to try on a baby shirt. This was so completely my fault. Maybe I should go to Baby Gap tomorrow and try to get into some Onesies or a romper. What was I thinking? Really?
~ Laurie Notaro
La gente, aveva concluso Dusty, può fare a meno di tante cose; il problema è che non riesce a non andare a comprarle.
~ Alan Bennett
She bought cleaning supplies and groceries at the Piggly Wiggly supermarket, itself a revelation to her: so many kinds of food, so many different brands!
~ Alan Brennert
Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I'm also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I'm majoring in childhood education.
~ Diana Lopez
However, inflation and unemployment have affected the shopping centers at least as much as the rest of the economy, so that here and there among the brave enticements stood a storefront dark, silent, its windows black, its forehead nameless, its prospects bleak. The survivors seemed to beam the more brightly in their efforts to distract attention from their fallen comrades, but Dortmunder could see them. Dortmunder and a failed enterprise could always recognize one another.
~ Donald E. Westlake
Tomorrow, or when you feel better, we'll go to the store and buy you all the things you need.
~ Jennings Michael Burch
People buy things in the hope that it will make them feel better," said Blair. "It gives you a momentary boost, just buying it, but not for long. It's just a stupid dopamine hit
~ Jenny Colgan
Email was great, but she did miss being excited by the post. That was probably why people did so much Internet shopping, she reckoned. So they had a parcel to look forward to.
~ Jenny Colgan
People buy things in the hope that it will make them feel better," said Blair. "It gives you a momentary boost, just buying it, but not for long.
~ Jenny Colgan
But for now my daughter and I stand shivering in front of the meat case. "I'm cold," she says. "Why can't we go? Why do we have to stand here?" There is some kind of meat I am supposed to buy. A kind of meat to go in a meat recipe. "We can go soon," I say. "Just wait. Let me think for a minute. You're not letting me think.
~ Jenny Offill
At this time of year many people decide that they should go on a Christmas-shopping trip to New York.
~ Jeremy Clarkson
I can't tell you how great it is to get away with a girlfriend for four days shopping in Paris. Now that's what I call a vacation.
~ Jessica Alba
Five years later, during the final assault on Berlin, a Russian shell scored a direct hit on a stable at the western end of the Tiergarten. The adjacent Kurfürstendamm, once one of Berlin's prime shopping and entertainment streets, now became a stage for the utterly macabre—horses, those happiest creatures of Nazi Germany, tearing wildly down the street with manes and tails aflame.
~ Erik Larson
My game is the Goodwill and Big Lots!, but the compulsion is the same; I have often used thrift shopping as a distraction from life. I could easily have frittered our family's fortune away $20 at a time.
~ Erika Schickel
Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.
~ Erma Bombeck
The president can say we're a country at war all he wants. We're not. The military is at war. And the military families are at war. Everybody else is shopping….
~ Ethan Brown
Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the sixties. It was when Britain went girlie. And what do girls do? Girls shop.
~ Andrew Marr
Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life – an unabashed soppiness, if you will – really marks the sixties. It was when Britain went girlie. And what do girls do? Girls shop.
~ Andrew Marr
When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.
~ Andrew Mason
You don't have to dress up or anything, not like when you go to Wal-Mart or something.
~ Ann B. Ross
I've always enjoyed shopping and loved fashion, but my interest as an entrepreneur was definitely more about the opportunities I saw to change the future of retail. My sister was a buyer in New York, and she knew my body and my style, and she could find me things I loved. I thought, 'What if everybody had access to this kind of experience?'
~ Katrina Lake
My shopping habits... I am not very brand-conscious about clothes. I buy whatever looks good on me. Likewise, I don't just shop only in malls or high-end stores.
~ Virat Kohli
Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
~ Rachel Nichols
I am a shopaholic, I hit the malls and shops whenever I feel low or bored.
~ Madhura Naik