Quotes About Shopping

Like many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts—census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.

People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.

dragged me to NikeTown to get his free trainers, he told me that he was flying to Australia the next day to teach

The few other shoppers were women like herself. Widows, perhaps, but grandmothers surely, out hunting for birthday gifts or bargains to store away for next winter. They shuffled in a daze from bin to bin, and Margaret read in every face some suffering or disappointment, their hopes and dreams marked down, 40 percent off.

We bought Candy Twirls and Bull's-Eyes and Licorice & Blackcurrant. We weren't going to lower ourselves and score at the supermarket, were we?

Rarely in the realm of the flesh have I been as prepared as I am in almost all video games: I obsessively check drawers, pilfer medicine cabinets, steal supplies, craft items and load up at the shop.

Magnificent phrases like 'inductive reactance' flow effortlessly from the lips of guys who can't cook hot dogs or find the flashing blue light in a K-Mart store.

A new lover. Fresh knowledge and a virgin body to paw. Shopping together for wicker furniture in the mall. Visiting the lingerie store. Picking out matching shotguns.

What would six dollars and fifty cents buy? Not a tape deck for Marla. Maybe a Christmas flower arrangement special for Mom. But she loved roses. He'd buy her one long-stemmed rose and get Dad a cactus plant. Something with prickers that you better not touch should suit him.

I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually.

Great. Some women cruise Beverly and go home with a pair of Jimmy Choos. I go home with a broken leg.

People stared. Maybe because they were giants compared to everyone else, both in height and muscle mass. Maybe because of the telltale bulge of weapons at their waist. Or maybe because William opened a bag of Doritos and ate while he shopped. Hard to tell.

Her hand fluttered over her heart. "Did you just say the word shopping without flinching?" "I did. So?" "So, that's gotta be a record. It's a worldwide fact men hate shopping." "How can I hate it when I've never done it?" Her lips curled into a slow, beautiful smile. "If you weren't already an angel, I'd dub you a saint. Poor guy. You have no idea what you're in for.

Go brush your teeth, comb your hair, put on dry clothes, and get the guns. We're going to Wal-Mart

I can browse indefinitely in a stationer's shop, indeed there is hardly anything in a good stationer's which I do not like and want.

The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe in the raw greed which hangs in the air like vapour. As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights look tacky and sinister.

She had shopped all on her own along the Flowered Path, fashion center of the gayest world in space.

I was actually in New Zealand studying, and I just got discovered. I was with my friend shopping, and this woman came up to me and was like, 'Would you like to come in? I own an agency.'

With 'Dawn,' I wanted the slick look; I wanted to bring out the nature of the shopping center, the retail displays, the mannequins. There are times when maybe you reflect that the mannequins are more attractive but less real - less sympathetic, even - than the zombies. Put those kinds of images side by side, and you raise all sorts of questions.

When someone comes in with a product they want in Bed Bath & Beyond, that's way out of my comfort zone.

Boredom turns a man to sex, a woman to shopping, and it drives newscasters berserk.

An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.

When you buy, use your eyes and your mind, not your ears.

When you are in love with someone you want to be near him all the time, except when you are out buying things and charging them to him.