S Quotes
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“Shopping at any level is a bit of therapy for my medulla oblongata.”
“Shopping at the Dandelion Co-op made me feel European. Very Audrey Hepburn as Sabrina in Paris (that movie played a few weeks ago in the park). River picked out goat cheese to spread on crispy-crusted French bread for the picnic, and olives, and a jar of roasted red peppers, and a bar of seventy percent dark chocolate, and a bottle of sparkling water. He bought some things for himself too: organic whole-fat milk, another crunchy baguette, glossy espresso beans (which were roasted by Gianni's family and sold all over town), bananas, Parmigiano-Reggiano, fat brown eggs, extra-virgin olive oil, and some bulk spices.
I watched River as he shopped. Closely. I watched him breathe in deep the gorgeous roasted smell of the espresso beans before he ground them. I watched him open the egg carton and stroke the brown shells before closing it again. I watched him slip his slim fingers into the barrel of bright purple-and-white cranberry beans, unable to resist the urge, just like me. I always had to put my hands in the pretty, speckled beans. Always.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
“shopping for clothes is like masturbation - everyone does it, but it isn't very interesting and therefore should be done alone, in an embarrassed fashion, and never be the topic of party conversation.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore
“Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.”
“Shopping is a wonderful stress reliever, so take your loved ones shopping.
Shop for experience;
Shop for knowledge;
Shop for awe;
Shop for memories that will last you a lifetime.”
“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.”
“Shopping is Not Creating.”
“Shopping is really complicated if you are a girl.”
Source: Does Snogging Count as Exercise?
“Shopping malls are liquid TVs for the end of the twentieth century. A whole micro-circuitry of desire, ideology and expenditure for processed bodies drifting through the cyber-space of ultracapitalism.”
“Shopping: one of my favorite pastimes.”
“Shopping Rage, Air Rage, Trolley Rage, Smokers – I Want a Fag Rage, you name it rage. But there’s something mysterious about the transformation that takes place when ordinary folk get behind the wheel of a vehicle. Ordinary mortals are transformed into godlike creatures with mystical powers that help them see through dense fog, help them know that there isn’t any traffic around that blind bend, and can also make them a better driver than anyone else.”
Source: Crash n Carry: The True Story of Britain's Ramraiders
“Shopping seemed to take an entirely too important place in women's lives. You never saw men milling around in men's departments. They made quick work of it. I used to wonder if shopping was a form of escape for women who had no worthwhile interests.”
“Shopping turns me off.”
“Shopping with friends is a great way of still enjoying the thrill of the chase without having to make a purchase. It can also be a real bonding opportunity. Helping your friend find something nice is just as rewarding as helping yourself.”
“Shopping's absolutely impossible nowadays. You can't get near the counter, and when you do, they haven't got it and you pay twiceas much for it.”
“Shopping, eating, and being with my friends. So, anytime that I am at home chillin', I will find a way to shop online. I'm like, "If I'm not allowed out of the house tonight then I am shopping online!”
“Shopping, true feminine felicity!”
Source: Romance and Reality
“Shops and clubs are very important when you want to change things. And they have a common denominator; the customer.”
“Shore up the mean with reverence and terror. But never banish terror from the gates of the state. The stronger the fear, the stronger the reverence for the just, the stronger your country's wall and the city's safety.”
Source: Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance
“Shores of life are truly the safer way but the deep waters test the faith be it man-made or God-given”
Source: Walking In The Newness Of Christ: Born Again Devotional [Print Replica]
“Shorn of consumeristic
malls and pubs
And parlour-fuelled
vanity rubs
Refurbished senses
Clearer goals
Mall rats transformed
Into inspired souls
QUARANTINE+VE”
“Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.”
“Short accounts make long friends.”
Source: Rachel Ray: A Novel
“Short answers seem like you don't care even if you are trying to answer. I get the same flack for my short texting.”
“Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.”
Source: L.P.
“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.”
“Short attention span is the new avant-garde. Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. It's something that has deep roots in modernism, stretching from the Futurists' use of typography to Pound's use of ideograms to concrete poetry. David Markson feels particularly relevant now. Twitter is the revenge of modernism.”
“Short boughs, long vintage.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Short chaps evolved naturally, but I didn't title and number them till much later. I like short chaps, like short books too, as a rule.”
“Short-cuts are timesavers for a reason: they omit details that can differentiate a profitable decision from one that you regret.”
Source: Unbiased Investor: Reduce Financial Stress and Keep More of Your Money
“Short cuts make long delays.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.”
“Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.”
“Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them. Long fiction feels more like atmosphere: it's a lot smokier and less defined.”
“Short film: you can be poetic and you don't have to answer anything. You can make whatever you want. You have creative freedom with short film.”
“Short films don't go too far.”
“Short form media is reductionist by nature.”
“Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling.”
“Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses.”
“Short is my date, but deathless my renown.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“Short is short and Tall is Tall You are what you are That is All!”
“Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.”
“Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.”
“Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.”
“Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.”
Source: The Works: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author
“Short lives,
bouncing harmlessly as a cloth doll on grandma’s lap.
Small helpless states,
pretentiousness garbed in the unintelligible,
makers of disposable art,
the zeal to make a scoop unstoppable,
pacified by fresh news,
of scrabbling sexy movements.”
“Short naps are good. Given modern workplace demands, this is not possible for many people - but if you have the option, try napping for ten to twenty minutes in the afternoon, preferably lying down in a darkened room.”
“Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are capable. Speech is what characters do to each other.”
Source: The Mulberry Tree
“Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy to recommend faith and not so easy to practise it.”
Source: Great Short Games of the Chess Masters
“Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.”