Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Crowe

I love going shopping. I have a black belt in it.

Martin Amis

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.

Peter Mayle

I have a terrible weakness for collecting snatches of other people's conversations, and occasionally I'm rewarded with unusual fragments of knowledge. My favorite of the day came from a large but shapely woman sitting nearby whom I learned was the owner of a local lingerie shop. 'Beh oui,' she said to her companion, waving her spoon for emphasis, 'il faut du temps pour la corsetterie.' You can't argue with that. I made a mental note not to rush things next time I was shopping for a corset, and leaned back to allow the waiter through with the next course.

Rita Rudner

Buying something on sale is a very special feeling. In fact, the less I pay for something, the more it is worth to me. I have a dress that I paid so little for that I am afraid to wear it. I could spill something on it, and then how would I replace it for that amount of money?

Tori Spelling

Bad shopping habits die hard.

Vincent Canby

The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.

Sophie Kinsella

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

Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.

Sophie Kinsella

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.

Susan Orlean

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.

Susan Faludi

That so-called feminine ardor for clothes shopping had been flagging for some time. Between 1980 and 1986, at the same time that women were buying more houses, cars, restaurant dinners, and health care services, they were buying fewer pieces of clothing-from dresses to underwear.

Philip Green

People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?

Pierre Trudeau

Canada is seen to some as a confederation of shopping centres.

Sophie Kinsella

Honestly, shopping beats therapy, anytime. It costs the same and you get a dress out of it.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I'm a sucker for good black skirts and pretty little shirts and kooky tops. I have to admit that shopping satisfies my craving for immediate gratification.

Tea Leoni

Shopping turns me off.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

Natalie Massenet

Touching clothes is just shopping foreplay, but it's changing. After all, you don't need to try a Mercedes to know that you'd like one.

Stevie Nicks

I'm obsessed with lighting. I'm constantly shopping for different lightbulbs. I love rainbow lightbulbs. And also, one should not live without dimmers. Life is all about lighting.

Tammy Faye Bakker

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.

Tamara Ecclestone

I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

Swoosie Kurtz

When [we]were first married, [Wade] begged me to be practical...thank God I lived by my credo: 'Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I charged it.

Swoosie Kurtz

Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I charged it.

Tom Felton

I'm obsessed with shopping. I'll get these urges to buy, like to shop for stuff on the Internet. I search for all kinds of weird gizmos I could get.

Thomas Merton

In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers.

Tom Scholz

Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall.

Steven Dietz

A people who`s primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any time.

Richard Simmons

I've been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital.

Suze Orman

Ignore the annual percentage rate when shopping for a mortgage.

Susan Sontag

To travel is to shop.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

Theophilus London

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