Shopping Quotes - Page 3

• The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Flirting, Synthesis, Malls

  Jean Baudrillard, Francesco Proto, Keith Broadfoot (2006). “Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard”, Academy Press

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• Some things look better inside of the store.

  Drake

  Humble, Rapper, Hip Hop

  Song: Let's Call It Off, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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• A woman is a creature that's always shopping.

  Ovid

  Women, Creatures

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• Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.

  Ernest Becker

  Drinking, Men, Awareness

  Ernest Becker (1985). “The Denial of Death”, New York : Free Press

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• I love going shopping.

  Serena Williams

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• Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!

  Kate Moss

  Clothes, Yeah

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.

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• Shopping at any level is a bit of therapy for my medulla oblongata.

  Theophilus London

  Levels, Therapy, Bits

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• We won't let ourselves feel our anger, rage, and pain. We push it down or anesthetize it through drugs, alcohol, shopping, or whatever we do in order not to feel it. When that memory and the associated feelings get lodged down there in our soul, the feelings are still there. They don't just magically go away. We have to give ourselves the opportunity to feel them.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Pain, Memories, Opportunity

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• I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.

  Fran Drescher

  Malls

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• She looked around. They had drifted far away from the bank of the canal. "Are we stealing this boat?" "Stealing' is such an ugly word," he mused. "What do you want to call it?" He picked her up and swung her around before putting her down. "An extreme case of window-shopping.

  Cassandra Clare

  Window Shopping, Ugly, Want

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping.

  Gloria Steinem

  Wall, Style, Female

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• And so really, you have given me no choice but to take you shopping by force.” She sighed, then reached up, dropping her sunglasses down from their perch on her head to cover her eyes. “Do you even realize how happy the average teenage girl would be in your shoes? I have a credit card. We’re at the mall. I want to buy you things. It’s like adolescent nirvana.” - Cora

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Teenage, Eye

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• Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.

  James Frey

  Novelists, Bags, Social

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• Halloween is the beginning of the holiday shopping season. That's for women. The beginning of the holiday shopping season for men is Christmas Eve.

  David Letterman

  Halloween, Holiday, Men

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• Spend less time shopping, more time traveling.

  Amy Chan

  Time Travel, More Time

  "Forget Resolutions — This Year I’m Making a Daily Contract With Myself" by Amy Chan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2013.

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• Shopping seemed to take an entirely too important place in women's lives. You never saw men milling around in men's departments. They made quick work of it. I used to wonder if shopping was a form of escape for women who had no worthwhile interests.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Men, Important, Saws

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• Normal adult shopping is something I will never actually do, because it's no more possible for me to go shopping like normal adults do than it is for a man with no legs to wake up one day and walk. I can't miss shopping like you'd miss things you once had. I miss it in a different way. I miss it like you would miss a train.

  John Darnielle

  Men, Missing, One Day

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• My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to visit New York and I don't want to go shopping.

  Amanda Donohoe

  New York, Sea, Cities

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• I just have some restaurants to just go and eat there. Do mean places to watch people? I like to go shopping look for guitars and stuff with my friends. Look at Meyer, great old instruments, talk about pedals and stuff

  Jason Schwartzman

  Mean, Guitar, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some people go shopping - I cut myself.

  Angelina Jolie

  Self Harm, Cutting, People

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• I love summer. Because it means I can wear a bikini top and shorts, even just to go shopping.

  David Wain

  Summer, Mean, Bikinis

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• Happiness is not in money, but in shopping.

  Marilyn Monroe

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• Boredom forces you to ring people you haven’t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long. Boredom means you start to read not only mail-order catalogues but also the advertising inserts that fall on the floor. Boredom gives you half a mind to get a gun and go berserk in the local shopping centre, and you know where this is going. Eventually, boredom means you will take up golf.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Fall, Mean, Golf

  Jeremy Clarkson (2004). “The world according to Clarkson”

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• Christmas shopping! I can do all my Christmas shopping here! I know March is a bit early, but why not be organized? And then when Christmas arrives I won't have to go near the horrible Christmas crowds.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Why Not, Crowds, March

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