I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they’ll say, ‚Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?‘ And they’ll start tailing me. And I don’t mind.

I went to a general store but they wouldn’t let me buy anything specific.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

I don’t feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you’ve got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don’t buy too much.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you’re just going to keep buying and selling things until there’s nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

Don’t judge. I used to buy underwear because I didn’t do my laundry.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

I went to a general store. They wouldn’t let me buy anything specifically.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

What I’m always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

I want my wardrobe to be full of good clothes, so that when I’m deciding what to wear, I don’t run out of options. I love shopping!

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no ‚y‘ in it.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

I cap myself when I shop; I don’t like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it’s scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.

Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that ‚shining city on a hill.‘ And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can’t do it on the cheap.

Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

I met this wonderful girl at Macy’s. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community – and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.

Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

I bought some batteries, but they weren’t included.

You don’t want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

I don’t feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don’t have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you’ve got the money to be able to afford it, then it’s really good to buy something from me, but don’t buy too much.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

We are not spending the Federal Government’s money, we are spending the taxpayer’s money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money’s worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

I look at other people’s lives, and some people feel like they’re too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, ‚cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn’t have. So I still get them.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There’s another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.