Shopping Quotes - page 7

Xmas Trivia: Before it became a major shopping holiday, Christmas is believed to have had a "religious" meaning. (Andy Borowitz)
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? View quote
Miuccia Prada
After assessing what's in your closet, make a list of what you need. Not want, but need. Write down the basics missing from your wardrobe. It could be a classic white shirt, a trenchcoat, or the perfect little black dress. Whatever the blank spots, write them down. This will be your reference for shopping. View quote
Nina Garcia
I love shopping for guys! A watch is a fantastic gift idea - an oversized, stainless steel version with links is classic and cool. View quote
Nina Garcia
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
If you spend fifteen minutes in a shopping mall, you will pass more people than our ancestors saw during their entire lifetimes. View quote
Rolf Dobelli
The hardest part of cooking is shopping, and if you organize yourself and shop once a week, you're halfway there. View quote
Ruth Reichl
If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment. View quote
Simon Van Booy
I love shopping! I'm impatient though. I'll go to the mall and in 30 minutes be ready to go. View quote
Ciara
I am not a label snob and have learned that the thrill of shopping can be just as great, if not more so, when you find a bargain. View quote
Sophie Kinsella
I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway. (Sophie Kinsella)
Ignore the annual percentage rate when shopping for a mortgage. View quote
Suze Orman
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. View quote
Susan Orlean
The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not. View quote
Philip Seymour Hoffman
For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.' View quote
Philip Yancey
The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture. View quote
Gus Van Sant
I know what Claire is. You know I know it. I told you the first minute I met you. But did you ever stop to think it's all worth it to me? Every time she makes a pass at another man, I know she's comparing. She's out on the open market, shopping. And being shopped for. I don't have any collar around her neck She's not tame. I'm not a habit to her. I'm not something she's tied to by any law. And every time she winds up coming back to me, you know what that proves. It proves I'm still the toughest man in the pack. Because she wouldn't stay if I wasn't. View quote
Algis Budrys
I make a fair amount of my food choices for environmental-type reasons than nutrition or taste. I'm trying to minimize impact, which is something most people don't necessarily think about when they're shopping. View quote
Alex Honnold
Men are like shoes. Some fit better than others. And sometimes you go out shopping and there's nothing you like. And then, as luck would have it, the next week you find two that are perfect, but you don't have the money to buy both." View quote
Janet Evanovich
I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book. View quote
Janet Evanovich
Companies have long gathered data to break down their customer base into specific segments. Now political parties have become adept at micro-targeting, too, using data on shopping habits, leisure activities, voting histories, charity donations, and so on, in order to pinpoint likely supporters and the type of appeal most likely to win them over. (James Surowiecki)
We start eating, watch television, surf the Internet, or go shopping and buy something. That gives us a rush of feeling, some adrenaline and excitement. View quote
Geneen Roth
I go shopping maybe three times a year in an intense way. I'm like a man. Can't spend too much time in a shop. View quote
Eva Green
I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first. View quote
Zara Phillips
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. View quote
Carol Vorderman