Shopping Quotes - Page 24

• And I encourage you all to go shopping more

  George W. Bush

  Consumerism, Overconsumption

  News Conference, www.nytimes.com. December 20, 2006.

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• In the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the arranging of presents under your tree this Christmas, may you not forget the gifts you cannot yet hold in your hands.

  T. D. Jakes

  Gratitude, Hands, Tree

  T. D. Jakes (2004). “Follow the Star: Christmas Stories That Changed My Life”, p.56, Penguin

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• Just recently I was in Target with my mom shopping, and out of the blue, I see this father and his two daughters and he says, 'Can they get a picture with you?' And I'm thinking to myself, 'Am I the one millionth customer or something?'

  Atticus Shaffer

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• I'll be out shopping, and all it takes is for one person to recognise me and it can get scary.

  Bonnie Wright

  Scary, Recognise, Persons

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• I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Selfish, Mind, My Own

  "My life in shopping". Interview with Sophie Kinsella, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2007.

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• An enlightened person is not in touch with all the ten thousand states of mind simultaneously always. It would be very hard to go shopping let alone drive the car.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Car, Mind

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• You get funky things in Goa, so I like shopping there. Paris and Milan are also my preferred shopping destinations.

  Karisma Kapoor

  Paris, Destination, Milan

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• I'm a pretty big clothes horse. I shop for clothes constantly. I do so much shopping. I should go to Shoppers Anonymous.

  Tiffani Thiessen

  Horse, Clothes, Should

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

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• The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.

  Carol Vorderman

  Running, Real, Kids

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• I like vintage shopping, but I also like to mix in high-end.

  Theophilus London

  Vintage, Ends, Vintage Shopping

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• Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is good for nothing in purse and person for a month afterwards, done up physically, and broken down financially.

  Fanny Kemble

  Christmas, Broken, Done

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”

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• Excellence is THE trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as Garfield Gets Spayed, and you'll see a half-dozen books telling you how to be excellent: In Search of Excellence, Finding Excellence, Grasping Hold of Excellence, Where to Hide Your Excellence at Night So the Cleaning Personnel Don't Steal It, etc.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Humorous, Night

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• ... Once you're safely in the mall, you should tie your children to you with ropes so the other shoppers won't try to buy them. Holiday shoppers have been whipped into a frenzy by months of holiday advertisements, and they will buy anything small enough to stuff into a shopping bag. If your children object to being tied, threaten to take them to see Santa Claus; that ought to shut them up.

  Dave Barry

  Children, Humorous, Holiday

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• I can go shopping and pick up some Bounty Towels, the three pack, I can go home and open those up and look at them and see more infinity than in the Buddha's best meditation. If I can't do that, that means I'm wrapped by the Buddha's best meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Home, Mean

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• I love shopping! I'm impatient though. I'll go to the mall and in 30 minutes be ready to go.

  Ciara

  Impatient, Minutes, Malls

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If there is one thing that is foreign to me it is shopping for pleasure. On the other hand, I believe that it is right to honor all those who create beautiful things and give satisfaction to those who see me wearing them.

  Grace Kelly

  Beautiful, Believe, Hands

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you're successful, it's important to enjoy it! I love shopping for clothes, branded clothes. I love shopping in England, Dubai. I like to travel whenever I can.

  Suresh Raina

  Successful, Dubai, Clothes

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• Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice.

  Martin Amis

  Family And Friends, Novelists, Doe

  Martin Amis (2017). “The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016”, p.16, Random House

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• If you're a nice person and you work hard, you get to go shopping at Barneys. It's the decadent reward.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Nice, Hard Work, Rewards

  "Barneys Orders Cancelled, Online Shoppers Informed Three Days Before Christmas" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2011.

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• Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved. And we willingly take the veil, thinking ourselves freed by it. Make-up is no more optional for us than the veil is for Arab women: it is our Western version of the chador.

  Erica Jong

  Thinking, America, Veils

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• Shopping with friends is a great way of still enjoying the thrill of the chase without having to make a purchase. It can also be a real bonding opportunity. Helping your friend find something nice is just as rewarding as helping yourself.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Real, Nice, Opportunity

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• I think life is about falling in love with the right person, shopping, eating our favorite desserts and traveling a lot.

  Olivia Palermo

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Life Is

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• I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids splurges. I like to think I've inherited both sides.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Dad, Thinking, Likes

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• I spend all day thinking of shopping. I love the thrill of finding that wonderful, perfect thing, the feeling of your heart racing because it's so right.

  Mindy Grossman

  Heart, Thinking, Perfect

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• You know, it was important for me to do something like that, because nobody ever really thought I could do anything except look sexy on a poster and go shopping.

  Pia Zadora

  Sexy, Important, Looks

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