Quotes About Shopping

When they got back in the Corvette, Gretel fished around in her shopping bad. What is this? She had chosen a black tank suit, but somehow a pink bikini had wound up among her purchases. Don't be mad, Margot pleaded. I'm not wearing this. Gretel tossed the bikini back in the bag. All the same, she couldn't help but notice the fabric was the same exact shade as the palest climbing roses. The tint of seashells on a deserted beach, or the mouth of someone you might want to kiss.

Under pressure, men drink alcohol and invade other countries; women eat chocolate and go shopping.

When Men and Women Are Both Stressed Uptight men drink alcohol and invade another country. Uptight women eat chocolate and invade shopping centers.

Teddy Shoes, where you could buy patent-leather pumps with a kitten heel in men's thirteen.

What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?

He remembered buying them for her. The two of them together at the farmers' market, wandering from stall to stall, buying bread rounds still warm from baking and bags of vegetables still thick with dirt and leaves. The way she managed to look at every display, ferreted out everything interesting, made people smile as she talked to them.

Toda la lógica de nuestra cultura conspira para que se quede en la rueda consumista, que salga a comprar cuando se sienta mal, que persiga valores de usar y tirar.

Big Pharma was offering the solution that an isolated, materialistic culture thought it needed—one you can buy. We had lost the ability to understand that there are some problems that can't be solved by shopping.

I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.

You think Tide is better, or All?' 'Which has a prettier box?' I ask. 'I don't want a pretty box. I want a dude box.' Uh-huh,' I deadpan. 'You want a dude box of laundry detergent.' 'Yes, I do.' 'Good luck with that.

The jolt of a new purchase makes Mummy feel powerful, if only for a moment.

I already have a toothbrush. I don't know why she would buy me another. That woman buys things just to buy things. It's disgusting.

Rose shifted her shopping bag off her lap and with a grunt levered her ponderous body upright; she smiled broadly at me, and with a cheery "Ta Gert, ta girls," she waddled towards the exit while I eased my shoulders in relief from the confining pressure of her body. God, what a huge woman.

Only one shopping day left 'til tomorrow.

I shop like a bull - I charge everything!

Shopping tip: You can get shoes for 85 cents at the bowling alley.

I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.

I will only purchase what fits me. If I want to lose weight, I do that first and then go shopping.

I have never had the money to make too many large purchases.

We women make the lion's share of household purchases in this country. We ourselves drive billions of dollars a year in sales.

Part of the budget should be used to purchase the items that you really need, such as a new coat or boots. Part of the budget should then be set aside to buy things you fall in love with and can't live without.

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

L.A. has a lot of good flea markets - the Rose Bowl is always a good one. I have taken to eBay, too. Some of my favorite things - especially chairs, for some reason - I got on eBay.

When I shop, I only do it when I really have to do it for something. I don't like to try on clothing like that - as much I love looking fly.