Supermarkets Quotes

• It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

  Christopher Dodd

  Food, Forget The Past, Easy

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• There is space in the supermarket shelf for all of us.

  Hugh Grant

  Space, Shelves

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• A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Ordinary, Buying, Emotion

  "The psychology of impulsive shopping" by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2015.

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• Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

  Douglas Coupland

  Doors, World, Forget

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• Supermarket automatic doors open for me; therefore, I am.

  Craig Reucassel

  Doors

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• I got you open like supermarkets!

  Busta Rhymes

  Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Everything Remains Raw, Album: The Coming, 1996

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• I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

  Wallis Simpson

  Fashion, Travel, Pregnancy

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• The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Food, Shopping, Cooking

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.49, BookBaby

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• You notice how they always put the fruit and veg at the entrance to the supermarket? You go in thinking 'this is a fresh shop, everything in here is FRESH! I will do well to shop here'. You never go straight to the bit with the toilet paper, loo brushes and such do you? You'd think 'this is a POO shop! Everything in here is themed on POO!

  Eddie Izzard

  Thinking, Paper, Toilets

  "Eddie Izzard: Definite Article ", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal supermarkets for the sacraments.

  Penny Lernoux

  Numbers, People, Catholic

  "The Fundamentalist Surge in Latin America" by Penny Lernoux in "The Christian Century" (p. 51), January 20, 1988.

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• Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Women, Believe, Bears

  Pornography: Men Possessing Women ch. 5 (1981)

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• I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.

  Barack Obama

  Girl, Morning, Car

  "Barack Obama misses stubble since becoming US president". www.mirror.co.uk. April 12, 2011.

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• So I went down the local supermarket, I said "I want to make a complaint, this vinegar's got lumps in it", he said "Those are pickled onions".

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Want

  Tim Vine (2012). “The (Not Quite) Biggest Ever Tim Vine Joke Book: Children's Edition”, p.110, Random House

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• Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.

  Ann Landers

  Believe, Shopping, America

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• At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.

  Bill Vaughan

  Moving, Humor, Law

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• Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can't make a healthy choice.

  Michelle Obama

  School, Healthy Choices, Giving

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• For one thing, there are many "inventions" that are not patentable. The "inventor" of the supermarket, for example, conferred great benefits on his fellowmen for which he could not charge them. Insofar as the same kind of ability is required for the one kind of invention as for the other, the existence of patents tends to divert activity to patentable inventions.

  Milton Friedman

  Patents, Example, Benefits

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.127, University of Chicago Press

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• I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Dream, Book, Odyssey

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.30, City Lights Publishers

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• Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Celebrity Gossip, Greed, Apathy

  The New York Times, March 25, 2007.

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• Everything has such order and everyone is so focused on doing what they're doing that no one ever pays attention to you spinning and dancing around supermarkets. It's something you find in places like supermarkets and airports, where everything is really ordered. There's something about those places that makes you feel really anonymous.

  Florence Welch

  Airports, Order, Dancing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.

  Molly Haskell

  Weekend, Night, Airports

  Molly Haskell (2000). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, p.34, iUniverse

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• I'm not going to stop going to the supermarket just because the paparazzi follow me. I love to cook and a cook needs her ingredients!

  Eva Longoria

  Needs, Ingredients, Follow Me

  "The Sentinel - Eva Longoria interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  School, Medicine, Choices

  "Every Week There is More Reason to Feel Empathy for Animals" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2009.

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• I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There's no need for that; it doesn't cost anything to be polite.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Hate, People, Guy

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

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• A Martian would think that the English worship at supermarkets, not in churches.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Thinking, Church, Worship

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