quotations about shopping
In some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things he didn't want, things indeed which nobody in their right mind would want to buy.
MARGARET MAHY
The Catalogue of the Universe
I've got a good mind to give up living, and go shopping instead
To pick up me a tombstone, and be pronounced dead
B. B. KING
"All Over Again"
Living in the sprawl,
Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains,
And there's no end in sight,
I need the darkness someone please cut the lights.
ARCADE FIRE
"Sprawl II"
Grocery shopping was intimidating ... the aisles were filled with everything from jumbo to miniature travel-sized rations. Who could I call to ask, "Does the size even matter?" I dare not ask my ex-wife.
TEZ BROOKS
The Single Dad Detour: Directions for Fathering After Divorce
I love to go shopping. I love to freak out salespeople. They ask me if they can help me, and I say, 'Have you got anything I'd like?' Then they ask me what size I need, and I say, 'Extra medium.'
STEVEN WRIGHT
attributed, The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Business Quotations
My idea of shopping is asking the lovely yet formidable Marcia to pick something up for me while she's out. It never works. "I am not picking out underwear again for you," is her usual response, which is why I have underwear older than my kids.
ANDY HELLER
"Anything but shopping", Daily Press, August 10, 2017
We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.
HENNY YOUNGMAN
attributed, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Health Fair
Attention all shoppers
It's Cancellation Day
Yes the Big Adios
Is just a few hours away
It's last call
To do your shopping
At the last mall
STEELY DAN
"The Last Mall"
Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country, its prosperity and limitless bounty. They have shops the way that lesser countries have statues.
SIMON HOGGART
America: A User's Guide
Just let me shop and no one gets hurt.
ANONYMOUS
I do not "shop." I "buy." It's one of my best traits, I think.
ANDY HELLER
"Anything but shopping", Daily Press, August 10, 2017
But with each step she took, Mythili realized why most people don't go shopping alone. It's because this mind of ours gets pretty damn busy. It starts analyzing every little stimulus you receive. And because you don't have another human being walking next to you distracting you from all the little stuff you should be ignoring, your mind takes it upon itself to provide you with companionship and talk you through your life.
SHWETA GANESH KUMAR
A Newlywed's Adventures in Married Land
Work hard so you can shop harder.
ANONYMOUS
I've definitely seen a lot of women go in and get really excited and you overspend. When you go home, that's never a good feeling. And when you wear the dress, it's not a good feeling. That guilt sort of takes all the fun and reward of that shopping high.
ROX HAULDREN
"10 Secrets Personal Shoppers Know About Shopping", Bravo, September 4, 2017
Is there more to life than shopping?
AMANDA FORD
Retail Therapy
My mother has agreed to take me shoe shopping at the mall. We enter the shopping center in a suburb of Washington, D.C., and pass by the Orange Julius and the arcade without stopping. I am like a hound on the hunt. My mom is just trying to keep up. As I approach one shoe store I glance in and don't see anything I am interested in and we keep going. We pass Spencer's, but that is a place to go with friends, not my mother, so I don't even slow down. We stop at another shoe store. I hold up a shoe and ask the sales clerk if they have a size 5. He shakes his head and says the smallest they have in that style is a 6. A little exasperated sigh escapes me. It is not easy to find shoes that I like in my size. I really hate shoe shopping.
KERRY COHEN
Spent: Exposing Our Complicated Relationship with Shopping
We'll go shopping, babe
It's something we can stand
Down in the mall
We will abide
Up on the escalator
Darling, we will ride
Down in the mall
WARREN ZEVON
"Down In the Mall"
When buyers don't fall for prices, prices must fall for buyers.
ANONYMOUS
Only 364 more shopping days 'til Christmas
The kids have already started making out their wish list
All of those brand new toys they opened up this morning
Should come with a warning:
Soon becomes old and boring.
Back to the malls there's not one second to waste
Use Grandma's car and get a handicapped parking space
There's only 364 more shopping days 'til Christmas
CLEDUS T. JUDD
"Only 364 Shopping Days 'Til Christmas"
At the sales counter, the human race's greatest confrontation with existence, there were no yesterdays, no history to be relived, only an intense transactional present.
J. G. BALLARD
Kingdom Come