Shopping Quotes - Page 20

• For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It’s what’s cast in bronze, or framed in sepia tones, or acted out with wax dummies and period furniture. It takes place in glass bubbles filled with water and chunks of plastic snow; it’s stamped on souvenir pencils and summarized in reprint newspapers. History nowadays is recorded in memorabilia. If you can’t purchase a shopping bag that alludes to something, people won’t believe it ever happened.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Believe, Glasses, Snow

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• There are television sets in every home, every restaurant, every hotel room, every shopping mall-now they’re even small enough to carry in your pocket like electronic rosaries. It is an unquestioned part of everyday life. Kneeling before the cathode ray God, with our TV Guide concordance in hand, we maintain the illusion of choice by flipping channels (chapters and verses). It doesn’t matter what is flashing on the screen-all that’s important is that the TV stays on.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Home, Hands, Choices

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• We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping period of the year. Knowing that a strong economic withdrawal program would be the by-product of direct action.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Easter, Strong

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.88, Beacon Press

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• I'm a sucker for good black skirts and pretty little shirts and kooky tops. I have to admit that shopping satisfies my craving for immediate gratification.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Black, Littles, Skirts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Luck, Wheels, Squeaky Wheel

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• Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact.... In Indianapolis they have come up with a most sensible, affordable approach to the problem. Policemen are assigned their police patrol cars for personal use after hours. They are encouraged to use the police car while taking the family shopping, to the movies, and everywhere one takes one's family. As a result, says the Police Chief's assistant, we may have as many as 400 cars on the street instead of 100 or so per shift. [And] the presence of the police car obviously indicates the proximity of policemen.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Issues, Cities, Evil

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• On occasion I have observed parents shopping to clothe a son about to enter missionary service. The new suits are fitted, the new shoes are laced, and shirts, socks, and ties are bought in quantity. I met one father who said to me, 'Brother Monson, I want you to meet my son.' Pride popped his buttons; the cost of the clothing emptied his wallet; love filled his heart. Tears filled my eyes when I noticed that his [the father's] suit was old, his shoes well worn; but he felt no deprivation. The glow on his face was a memory to cherish.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Brother, Memories, Father

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• If you want to understand the effect of weight on a horse, try running for a bus with nothing in your hands. Then try doing it with your hands full of shopping. Then think about doing that for four and a half miles.

  Jenny Pitman

  Running, Horse, Thinking

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• My relationship with brick-and-mortar shopping is, in general, unpleasant. I can't remember a time in my life when I could go to a physical store and find a variety of things in my size that excited me and fit my personal style. As a plus-size shopper at a typical mall, you're limited to at most five stores out of maybe 50 clothing retailers. That leaves us with very few options and, for people on a tight budget, pretty much no chance of comparison shopping. You take what you can get.

  Lindy West

  Bricks And Mortar, People, Style

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.

  Janet Street-Porter

  Sex, Book, Sleep

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• Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am all about money. I mean, just look how well my line of zodiac-inspired toe rings and homeopathic children's medications are selling on Home Shopping Network.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Children, Home

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not?

  Miuccia Prada

  Light, Bored, Why Not

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do love to shop. But I'm a social shopper. I like to do it while hanging out with my friends. Some of them hate shopping because they treat it like something you have to plan, like a grocery list. But if I'm out and I pass a store, I just pop in.

  Nicole Richie

  Hate, Lists, Social

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.

  John Berger

  Wall, Shadow, East

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.896, Vintage

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• I've been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital.

  Richard Simmons

  Hospitality, Malls, General Hospital

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• Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.

  Erma Bombeck

  Years, Two Year Olds, Literature

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• On the very same day that I ordered an iPad 2, I went shopping to buy myself a letter opener. I like to cover all my bases.

  Susan Orlean

  Ipads, Letters, Bases

  "The Wayward Letter Opener" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2011.

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• I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes.

  Graham Norton

  Clothes, Pleasure, Inconsequential

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• We are seeing pioneers moving out to the Internet, banks that are taking transactions, retail shopping on the Internet, and although it's going to take most of a decade before most adults are turning to the Internet for a high percentage of their act

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Adults, Pioneers

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• Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport - every single time, something could happen. That's how terrorism works.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Airports, Car, Steps

  "Ayaan Hirsi Ali on why Christians should try to convert Muslims". Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. May 21, 2010.

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• I know well the delectable thrill of moving into a new house somewhere altogether else, in somebody else’s county, where the climate is different, the food is different, the light is different, where the mundane preoccupations of life at home don’t seem to apply and it is even fun to go shopping.

  Jan Morris

  Fun, Moving, Home

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• It sounds cheesy but I think my life's kinda like a fairy tale. I worked really hard, but I'm very, very lucky too. I'm just 16 and I've done so many amazing things. I travel the world, I have fans who support me, and I get to do what I love - make movies, sing and really be myself. I have a beautiful family, a great support system, and wonderful friends - and I go shopping every week! I'm so lucky, but it's not necessarily like "A Cinderella Story."

  Hilary Duff

  Beautiful, Thinking, Support Systems

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There was a time in L.A. when I drove to 7-Eleven to go grocery shopping, and I locked my keys in my car, which wasn't insured. My wallet was in there, and I couldn't call AAA, because I only had $7 in my bank account. It was one of those moments where I was like, 'O.K., I literally have nothing right now.

  Whitney Cummings

  Keys, Car, Moments

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• Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time.

  James Iha

  Dog, Normal, Groceries

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• The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.

  Cathy Guisewite

  People, Stories, Lines

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