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Shopping Quotes (page 7)

Edward Gibbon quote: "To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present..."
To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations. Edward Gibbon
The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here twelve hours and already they loved me. Bill Bryson
They're bored with their boring husbands who are workaholics like my dad. They're bored with their boring lives, sick of us kids and all this puberty and rebelling, so they pop pills all day long and shop and watch the soaps, and then when it all starts to fall apart they realize they just want to be happy again, so they go to rehab to clean up their act and then start fresh. Can you relate? Terry McMillan
...most guys have about 73 calories of shopping energy, and once these calories are gone, they're gone for the day - if not the week - and can't be regenerated simply by having an Orange Julius at the Food Fair. Doug Coupland
Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively than he loves me (having realized that nobody will ever love me in that overabundant, overexpressive, overthoughtful, overhuman way I love people), and so I will wait for him. So I ask taxi driver to drop me at the Galeries Lafayette, where I begin to look for a new hat and to shop for Christmas. Pride? I don't know. A kind of wise retreat. I need people too much. So I bury my gigantic... Anais Nin
I began to make some money, but I could never bring myself to leave someone else in charge of the shop; the crystals are delicate things. Paulo Coelho
They make a fuss about Hogsmeade, but I assure you, Harry, it's not all it's cracked up to be. All right, the sweetshop's rather good, and Zonko's Joke Shop's frankly dangerous, and yes, the Shrieking Shack is always worth a visit, but really, Harry, apart from that, you're not missing anything. J. K. Rowling
Neil Gaiman quote: "he would take a roadside attraction, no matter how cheap, how..."
...he would take a roadside attraction, no matter how cheap, how crooked, or how sad, over a shopping mall, any day. Neil Gaiman
When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look like a quartered cow hanging in a butcher shop as well as disturbingly appealing. Isabella Rossellini
Shirley Hazzard quote: "I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal."
I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal. Shirley Hazzard
Dodie Smith quote: "I could look at stationers' shops forever and ever."
I could look at stationers' shops forever and ever. Dodie Smith
all white with snow as if under dustsheets, as if laid away eternally as soon as brought back from the shop, never to be seen or touched Angela Carter
i want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. "it's just that there is nowhere else to start," she said gently. "niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know. Louise Erdrich
Terry Prachett quote: "There would be a price... But if you were worried about the..."
There would be a price... But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop? Terry Prachett
The clangor of the body shop comes up softly. It's noise comforts him, tells him he is hidden and safe, that while he hides men are busy nailing the world down, and toward the disembodied sounds his heart makes in darkness a motion of love. John Updike

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