Grocery Stores Quotes - Page 2

• It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart and it's just so startling, because it never occurred to you they existed outside of school.

  Sarah Dessen

  Running, Teacher, School

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.100, Penguin

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• You need me, just whistle," he said as he arranged his ball cap over his eyes against the sun leaking through the frost-emptied branches. "You're not coming?" Lifting the brim of his cap, he eyed me, "You want me to?" he asked blandly. "Not really, no." He dropped the brim and laced his hands over his middle. "Then why are you bitching? It's a crime scene, not a grocery store.

  Kim Harrison

  Eye, Hands, Branches

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• I'm saying your name in the grocery store, I'm saying your name on the bridge at dawn. Your name like an animal covered with frost, your name like a music that's been transposed, a suit of fur, a coat of mud, a kick in the pants, a lungful of glass, the sails in wind and the slap of waves on the hull.

  Richard Siken

  Animal, Glasses, Wind

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• I thought Trent should get over his pixy paranoia and admit he had an eerie attraction to them, like every other pure-blood elf I’d met. So he liked pixies. I liked double-crunch ice cream, but you didn’t see me avoiding it in the grocery store.

  Kim Harrison

  Ice Cream, Blood, Eerie

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• I change clothes at least three times a day. It's the only way I can justify all the shopping I do. Prada to the grocery store? Yes! Gucci to the dry cleaner's? Why not? Dolce & Gabbana to the corner deli? I insist!

  RuPaul

  Shopping, Clothes, Three

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• Do you believe in spirits? Or ghosts?...Yes, I do. I believe in ghosts....They're the ones who haunt us. The ones who have left us behind." "Vivian has come back to the idea that the people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our ordinary moments. They're with us in the grocery store, as we turn the corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles." "The things that matter stay with you, seep into your skin.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Believe, Ideas, People

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• Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.

  Daniel Handler

  Money, Children, Eye

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• And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings.

  Kanye West

  Dream, Self Esteem, Team

  Song: Self Conscious

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• We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making decisions we are not qualified to make almost every time we enter the voting booth, go to the grocery store or step into a car show room. We do not know what is "normal." Because our whole life and in some respects a generation or two before us have only known this era of fossil fuel exploitation and resource grabbing; we call this normal.

  Alfred W. Crosby

  Two, Car, Decision

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• People ask me how I stay thin, and I'm like, 'When you go to the grocery store, buy more bananas than cookies.'

  Elizabeth Banks

  People, Cookies, Bananas

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• I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store.

  Kathleen Robertson

  People, Want, Stores

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I got the name Slash because I used to work in a grocery store and I was in charge of reducing prices for really big sales.

  Slash

  Names, Used, Reducing

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• Growing up, my parents were healthy eaters and starting to run and compete when I was 13, I knew the need to focus on what you need to eat. I remember going to grocery store myself and picking up fresh fruit and knowing early on the right foods to fuel my body.

  Norah O'Donnell

  Running, Growing Up, Knowing

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• But come on, like she hadn't seen every aisle in his grocery store already?

  J.R. Ward

  Stores, Groceries, Aisle

  J.R. Ward (2012). “Leaping Hearts”, p.391, Penguin

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• I just go about my life. I'm a mom, I drive an SUV, I go to the grocery store every day. I'm definitely not a celebrity. I always say that I'm a celebrity-adjacent.

  Diablo Cody

  Mom, Suvs, Stores

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• I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage.

  Angela Kinsey

  Assistants, Normal, Target

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• A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.

  Zosia Mamet

  Thinking, People, Lines

  "The Other 'Girls': Jemima Kirke, Zoisa Mamet and Allison Williams on Their New HBO Show". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 13, 2012.

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• We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of 'Survivor' on a 2-inch television set? I doubt it. But I do think somebody's going to go to a grocery store in the middle of a football game and watch that game.

  Leslie Moonves

  Football, Thinking, Games

  "CBS Chief isn't worried about Youtube or Google — 'as long as we get paid'". Interview with Frank Rose, www.wired.com. May 16, 2007.

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• When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant. And then I got a job in a grocery store deli. And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Jobs, Dad, Dust

  "Palin on DHS employee running a hate site: This is 'stupidity on steroids, Obama administration!'". "On the Record", www.foxnews.com. August 23, 2013.

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• I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it was mortifying. You felt dirty for them. But now it's perfectly acceptable to read something like that. There's absolutely no taboo surrounding that kind of exploitation.

  Rashida Jones

  Dirty, Kids, Naughty

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• When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Endless Time, Hours, Stores

  "Zooey Deschanel Interview NEW GIRL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 7, 2011.

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• I think it all comes down to relationships - how I treat my wife, how I treat my kids, how I treat the guys at the grocery store, all aspects of every day, what I'm involved in.

  Michael W. Smith

  Kids, Thinking, Wife

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• The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.

  Jodi Picoult

  Wine, Water, Lord

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• Simon shook his head."Look,do you know what you want to eat,or do you just want me to keep pushing this cart up and down aisles because it amuses you?" "That and I'm not really familiar with what they sell in mundane grocery stores.Maryse usually cooks or we order in food."said Jace

  Cassandra Clare

  Order, Pushing, Looks

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• A citizen walking through the airport today is bombarded with 1984-style propaganda messages that are designed to make us fear some amorphous threat and also be suspicious of others. The government designs these messages to make us feel dependent and heavily lorded over in every aspect of our lives. These messages are becoming ever more pervasive, hitting us even in grocery stores when we are shopping.

  Ron Paul

  Airports, Government, Shopping

  "Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom". Book by Ron Paul, April 19, 2011.

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