“Excellence is THE trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as Garfield Gets Spayed, and you'll see a half-dozen books telling you how to be excellent: In Search of Excellence, Finding Excellence, Grasping Hold of Excellence, Where to Hide Your Excellence at Night So the Cleaning Personnel Don't Steal It, etc.” BookNightWalksHalfFindingsHumorousExcellenceStealingExcellentEtcTrendsShoppingDozenCleaning80sBookstoresMallsGraspingSellersRacksPersonnelBest SellersGarfield Author:Dave Barry
“Over analyse, paralyse, you mustn't over analyse... Do you wake up at four in the morning and wonder who should be playing left-back? Four? I would love to sleep that long. If you want a really long career you have to find a way of switching off. I do it when I'm out walking my dog, Alex Ferguson got into horses, others get into wine. Some players like going shopping, which is not my scene. A lot of them turn to golf. I tried it, didn't like it. I have to walk. If I couldn't I'd be in a padded cell by now.” IfsWayWantShouldLongTurnsLeftSleepWalksWonderCareersMorningFourPlayerDogFootballWalkingSceneHorseWake UpWineGolfCellsManagersSoccerShoppingMy DogChairmanAlexReally LongSwitchingFergusonLong CareersSwitching Off Author:Roy Keane
“The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers.” WalksFlowerMastersGardenShoppingTrafficZen Master Author:Frederick Lenz
“Normal adult shopping is something I will never actually do, because it's no more possible for me to go shopping like normal adults do than it is for a man with no legs to wake up one day and walk. I can't miss shopping like you'd miss things you once had. I miss it in a different way. I miss it like you would miss a train.” MenWayI CanDifferentWalksMissingLike YouOne DayNormalAdultsWake UpTrainLegsDifferent WaysShopping Author:John Darnielle
“It was common practice for me to take my children with me whenever I went shopping, out for a walk in a white neighborhood, or just felt like going about in a white world. The reason was simple enough: if a black man is alone or with other black men, he is a threat to whites. But if he is with children, then he is harmless, adorable.” IfsMenWorldChildrenReasonEnoughFeltBlackSimpleWhiteWalksCommonPracticeThreatMy ChildrenNeighborhoodShoppingAdorable Author:Gerald Early
“I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.” WholeDifficultWalksClothesStoresShoppingBoresShopping For Clothes Author:Paul Auster
“I just moved onto Queen West, after 20 years in Cabbagetown. The whole area around Trinity-Bellwoods is one of the juiciest in Toronto - all kinds of people to watch, dogs to pat, food to eat, galleries to check out. And the walk home from CBC delivers some of the most interesting window-shopping in town.” PeopleYearsKindWholeHomeWalksInterestingWatchesDogAreasWindowTownsMovedWestChecksAll KindsQueensShoppingMost InterestingGalleryTrinityTorontoWindow ShoppingCbc Author:Andy Barrie
“Get ready for a smaller world. Soon, your food is going to come from a field much closer to home, and the things you buy will probably come from a factory down the road rather than one on the other side of the world. You will almost certainly drive less and walk more, and that means you will be shopping and working closer to home. Your neighbours and your neighbourhood are about to get a lot more important in the smaller tworld of the none-too-distant-future.” WorldMeanImportantHomeSidesWalksFieldsReadyShoppingFactoriesNeighbourDown The RoadNeighbourhoods Book:Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller Source: Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller