Shop Quotes

“Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?”
― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it again.
(Confessions of a Shopaholic-the movie)”
― Sophie Kinsella

“Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.”
― Marc Bekoff, Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

“People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.”
― Kathy Lette

“I'd never seen a man who could outshop me, but Jenks was a master.”
― Kim Harrison, A Fistful of Charms

“It is a traveler’s fallacy that one should shop for clothing while abroad. Those white linen tunics, so elegant in Greece, emerge from the suitcase as mere hippie rags; the beautiful striped shirts of Rome are confined to the closet; and the delicate hand batiks of Bali are first cruise wear, then curtains, then signs of impending madness.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“Nothing belongs to itself anymore.
These trees are yours because you once looked at them.
These streets are yours because you once traversed them.
These coffee shops and bookshops, these cafés and bars, their sole owner is you.
They gave themselves so willingly, surrendering to your perfume.
You sang with the birds and they stopped to listen to you.
You smiled at the sheepish stars and they fell into your hair.
The sun and moon, the sea and mountain, they have all left from heartbreak.
Nothing belongs to itself anymore.
You once spoke to Him, and then God became yours.
He sits with us in darkness now
to plot how to make you ours.” K.K.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Out of the current confusion of ideals and and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.”
― Matthew B. Crawford

“When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“When not duck farming, I'm busy being mysterious. I'm like The Hardy Boys. Both of them. That's why I exclusively shop Buy One, Get One FREE.”
― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“I've purged myself of worldly goods; half my stuff is either being sold or going to charity. I need to go shopping.”
― Christy Leigh Stewart

“I can almost see it now, in red and yellow lettering; as if the events of the past eight years have been neatly and prettily folded away, leaving no rough edges, no blanks, just the gloss of recovered time.
And it smells of the Americas; the court of Montezuma; spiced, in golden goblets and mixed with wine and pomegranate juice. And it smells of cream and cardamom; of sacrificial bonfires; of temples and of palaces; of vanilla and tonka and mocha and rose. The scent is overwhelming; it rushes through me like the wind; it sweeps me off my feet like love-
Will you stay, Vianne? Will you stay?”
― Joanne Harris, Peaches for Father Francis

“The walls behind the counter had deep floor-to-ceiling shelves for vases and jam jars and scented candles, and there was an old wrought-iron revolving stand for cards. But most of the space in the long, narrow shop was taken up with flowers and plants.
Today there were fifty-two kinds of cut blooms, from the tiny cobalt-blue violets that were smaller than Lara's little fingernail to a purple-and-green-frilled brassica that was bigger than her head.
The flowers were set out in gleaming metal buckets and containers of every shape and size. They were lined up on the floor three deep and stacked on the tall three-tier stand in the middle of the shop.
The plants, huge leafy ferns and tiny fleshy succulents, lemon trees and jasmine bushes and freckled orchids, were displayed on floating shelves that were built at various heights all the way up to the ceiling.
Lara had spent weeks getting the lighting right. There were a few soft spotlights above the flower displays, and an antique crystal chandelier hung low above the counter. There were strings of fairy lights and dozens of jewel-colored tea lights and tall, slender lanterns dotted between the buckets. When they were lit, they cast star and crescent moon shapes along the walls and the shop resembled the courtyard of a Moroccan riad- a tiny walled garden right in the middle of the city.”
― Ella Griffin, The Flower Arrangement

“It would be heaven to spend your days working in a place that smelled of roses and trees and damp clay, like a garden after the rain.”
― Ella Griffin, The Flower Arrangement

“You may use a shopping cart to get your groceries, but I just use regular clothes. That way all my items are FREE.”
― Jarod Kintz, I design saxophone music in blocks, like Stonehenge

“Nothing leaves the shop unless it's the best I can do.”
― Cormac McCarthy

“After shopping the online Black Friday sales, I found that my computer was infested with junk that was making it run really slow.”
― Steven Magee

“The barber’s shop and the beauty salon are social media where everyone receives news alert.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“He sold smoked bluefish pâté and cocktail sauce, lemons, asparagus, corn on the cob, sun-dried tomato pesto, and fresh pasta. He sold Ben & Jerry's, Nantucket Nectars, frozen loaves of French bread. It was a veritable grocery store; before, it had just been fish. Marguerite inspected the specimens in the refrigerated display case; even the fish had changed. There were soft-shell crabs and swordfish chunks ("great for kebabs"); there was unshelled lobster meat selling for $35.99 a pound; there were large shrimp, extra-large shrimp, and jumbo shrimp available with shell or without, cooked or uncooked. But then there were the Dusty staples- the plump, white, day-boat scallops, the fillets of red-purple tuna cut as thick as a paperback novel, the Arctic char and halibut and a whole striped bass that, if Marguerite had to guess, Dusty had caught himself off of Great Point that very morning.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Love Season

“Keep calm and shop the internet.”
― Steven Magee

“Shopping: one of my favorite pastimes.”
― Adrienne Posey

“By offering cheaper prices online, the retailer educated me to never purchase in their physical store. By offering unconditional returns, they taught me to return poor products. By blocking my ability to return poor products because I made too many returns, they conditioned me to always shop at their competitors.”
― Steven Magee

“In the tiny shops of quiet streets, there is a huge world: If there is sincerity, sweetness and naturalness in a place, then there is a huge world there!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Your sensuality is your currency. Pay attention to how you spend or invest it.”
― Lebo Grand

“Alice always had loved flowers.
There was something about the blend of colors, the hidden roots, the twisting petals as they unfurled in the sun one by one. A symbol of femininity---how that which is delicate can also be strong. Whiskey in a teacup, as her aunt always said. Well, her aunt and Reese Witherspoon, but honestly, Aunt Charlotte had been saying that way back when Reese was still filming Sweet Home Alabama.
Alice swept petals from the floor, beautiful yet fragmented evidence of the fullness the day had brought. She'd been running the Prickly Rose, a customizable bouquet shop on Magazine Street, alongside her aunt for several years now, and Valentine's Day always left plenty of cast-off remnants.”
― Ashley Clark, Where the Last Rose Blooms

“Is that—is that the Enchanted Forest?”
The airy, beautiful shop on the edge of the magical village looks like a forest that’s growing within four wood walls. The opened display window is as charming as a scene out of Bambi, with birds twittering as they flutter in and out and vines winding glass bottles filled with jewel-tone liquids.”
― Julie Abe, The Charmed List

“Shop the fruit, vegetable and refrigerator section only for good health.”
― Steven Magee

“Meanwhile, the must-haves we're encouraged to lust over bombard us from every direction.
Jewellery. Clothes. Technology. Cars.
In pursuit of them, the reasons for which we are enticed to buy slip from view.
To make life happier, to have more downtime and fewer complications.”
― Gabriella Bennett, The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way

“Meanwhile, the must-haves we're encouraged to lust over bombard us from every direction.
Jewellery. Clothes. Technology. Cars.
In pursuit of them, the reasons for which we are enticed to buy slip from view.
To make life happier, to have more downtime and fewer complications.
Folk practising the coorie commandments are working to cast aside fast consumerism and usher in meaningful products.
One school of thought argues that handing the population the information they need to make decisions on how to live a more mindful existence is half the battle won.”
― Gabriella Bennett, The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way

“[Shopping is a] Mardi Gras of consumerism.”
― Russell Brand, Revolution