Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work.
It's a lot like the Wild West out here... just with tea shops instead of saloons. Wild West Sahara, that is.
a guitar store is the only place in the known universe where a guy will allow himself to shop like a woman
Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.
She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks.
A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I think of Susan Sarandon, Cameron Diaz and Isabelle Huppert.
I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
A bathroom that doubles as an elevator would be a great place to open a coffee shop—but only if it’s a Starbucks.
If you’re not able to laugh inside a sex shop, then you probably shouldn’t be there. I mean, they don’t call it fooling around for nothing.
Josh is the company tech expert, which means we all think he’s a little bit shaman, a little bit magician, and mostly a nerd.
Roger’s wand made a crackling noise as he traced it around Winston’s arms, down his waist, and everywhere else.
A coffin with wheels would make a great shopping cart. I’ll bet a hollowed-out body would hold a lot of soup.
I’ll carry Carrie like my hands are empty and my heart is full. I should probably get a shopping cart, to make it easier to haul it all around.
My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.
I never go to Vancouver without stopping by Thomas Haas' shop for the best chocolate in North America. A former chef patissier at Daniel, he returned to his hometown and created a top quality brand by sticking to his passion.
There wasn't a human being for several kilometers around, not a news-stand, not a shop, not a café, not a school. Not a cat, not a skinhead. Nothing.
I also grew up building theatrical scenery. I spent many years building scenery as a large part of my income and that allowed me to really develop my shop skills.
I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.
As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.
When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed.
