Groceries Quotes - Page 4

• We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of 'Survivor' on a 2-inch television set? I doubt it. But I do think somebody's going to go to a grocery store in the middle of a football game and watch that game.

  Leslie Moonves

  Football, Thinking, Games

  "CBS Chief isn't worried about Youtube or Google — 'as long as we get paid'". Interview with Frank Rose, www.wired.com. May 16, 2007.

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• Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Hurt, Long Ago

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• If entertainment ran grocery stores, we'd NEVER get oil cured olives or blue cheese, it would be JUST Coke.

  Penn Jillette

  Blue, Oil, Would Be

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, asitecalledfred.com. September 2003.

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• The masses are brainwashed to the point that they believe if an American grocery store or restaurant offers a particular food, it must be good and safe.

  Andreas Moritz

  Believe, Safe, Restaurants

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• Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Hands, Retail

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• Purchase items that can be made into several meals, like a whole roasted chicken, or bag of sweet potatoes, and shop the periphery of the grocery store, avoiding the middle aisles full of processed and higher-priced foods.

  Cat Cora

  Sweet, Meals, Bags

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• Nowadays, it's good to eat the booty like groceries, but back then, going down on a woman was sort of "Ew."

  Jensen Karp

  Booty

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't look at myself as a celebrity. People recognize me, but it's all about my music, my songs. It's not like I'm a greater being. I take my kids to school, pick them up, go to the grocery store. I'm a mother, and my kids mean more to me than even being an artist.

  Faith Evans

  Mother, Song, Mean

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• A citizen walking through the airport today is bombarded with 1984-style propaganda messages that are designed to make us fear some amorphous threat and also be suspicious of others. The government designs these messages to make us feel dependent and heavily lorded over in every aspect of our lives. These messages are becoming ever more pervasive, hitting us even in grocery stores when we are shopping.

  Ron Paul

  Airports, Government, Shopping

  "Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom". Book by Ron Paul, April 19, 2011.

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• There's a game called Checkout where there's grocery items and it's how much you think the manufacturer's suggested retail price is and we add up your total, then your total has to be within $2 of the regular total. I don't think I could ever win that game.

  Drew Carey

  Winning, Thinking, Games

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• I just go about my life. I'm a mom, I drive an SUV, I go to the grocery store every day. I'm definitely not a celebrity. I always say that I'm a celebrity-adjacent.

  Diablo Cody

  Mom, Suvs, Stores

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• Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.

  Elizabeth Moon

  People, Normal, Sometimes

  Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.66, Ballantine Books

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• I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.

  Chris Evans

  Lifestyle, Grocery Shopping, Stores

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• Sometimes magazines will take artist's creative choices too literally; they assume that I actually live the way I do in music videos. For example: the whole "Dirty" thing. Do you think I wear chaps to the grocery store?

  Christina Aguilera

  Dirty, Artist, Thinking

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• Although the cooking of food presents some unsolved problems, the quick warming of cooked food and the thawing of frozen food both open up some attractive uses. ... There is no important reason why the the housewife of the future should not purchase completely frozen meals at the grocery store just as she buys quick frozen vegetables. With a quick heating, high-frequency unit in her kitchen, food preparation from a pre-cooked, frozen meal becomes a simple matter.

  Chauncey Guy Suits

  Science, Simple, Vegetables

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• Getting straight with your money is as complicated as a trip to the grocery store:
  You need a comparison shop, add and subtract, stick with a plan, and ask questions- nothing more.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Add, Needs, Sticks

  Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi (2006). “All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

  Connie Willis

  Lists, Heard, Written

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• Whether I'm a Super Bowl Champion or a regular guy stocking groceries at the Hy-Vee, sharing my faith and glorifying Jesus is the central focus of my time on this earth.

  Kurt Warner

  Jesus, Focus, Guy

  "From Supermarket to Super Bowl" by Milton Berle, www.crosswalk.com. October 30, 2002.

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• I think it all comes down to relationships - how I treat my wife, how I treat my kids, how I treat the guys at the grocery store, all aspects of every day, what I'm involved in.

  Michael W. Smith

  Kids, Thinking, Wife

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• There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.

  Lusia Strus

  Success, Shopping, Ideas

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• All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

  Steven Saylor

  Writing, Self, Doe

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• It was a very hard life. As I got older, the family was depending very much on me. My two older brothers got married, so they had their own families depending on them. I had seven people relying on me, so I worked in a grocery store.

  Martin Lel

  Brother, Two, People

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• Don’t complain about being unable to afford high-quality local food when your grocery cart is full of beer, cigarettes, and People magazine.

  Joel Salatin

  Beer, People, Quality

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• The most important fact about our shopping malls, as distinct from the ordinary shopping centers where we go for our groceries, is that we do not need most of what they sell, not even for our pleasure or entertainment, not really even for a sensation of luxury. Little in them is essential to our survival, our work, or our play, and the same is true of the boutiques that multiply on our streets.

  Henry Fairlie

  Play, Shopping, Luxury

  Henry Fairlie (1979). “The Seven Deadly Sins Today”

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• By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.

  Sidney Altman

  Father, School, College

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