Saturday Shopping Quotes

#1. To me, marriage is really important and what we build families on. That's why gay marriage is really important.

Margaret Cho

#2. By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.

Abe Ajay

#3. She considered the familiar conundrum inherent in complimenting a child for doing something well in the course of what ought not to have been done at all, and kept her peace.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#4. I was born for better things.

Barry Unsworth

#5. No one comes into our house and pushes us around.

Dan Devine

#6. I saw that on Small Business Saturday, the president went shopping at a bookstore and bought 17 books, including "The Laughing Monsters," "Being Mortal," and "Heart of Darkness." Or as the cashier put it, "You OK, man? Maybe a little 'Chicken Soup for the Presidential Soul?'

Jimmy Fallon

#7. If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

Lincoln Steffens

#8. I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did 'Reno 911!' for six seasons while writing huge movies and directing and also doing other pilots; he did that FX pilot, the 'Star Trek' thing.

Scott Aukerman

#9. I grew up in Kolkata in a traditional family. We had friends who lived in mansions just like the one in 'Oleander Girl.' Growing up, I was fascinated by the old house and the old Bengal lifestyle.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#10. Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work.

Luke Harding

#11. It's great to have all this stuff at home. But when you want to make it for real, there's still nothing like making music with a bunch of other great musicians in the same room. That's one thing that'll never change.

Ronnie Milsap

#12. Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

George Balanchine

#13. For a suburban man aged 30 to 40, hell is going clothing shopping on a Saturday afternoon. There are about 5,000 other things they would put on the list ahead of clothes shopping.

Richard Hayne

#14. The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe in the raw greed which hangs in the air like vapour. As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights look tacky and sinister.

Irvine Welsh

#15. You're only responsible for your own actions. You can't control how someone else reacts to what you do. You made a choice. Stand by it.

Kekla Magoon

#16. Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with, it is such an amazing feeling to see all those people around me, knowing they are actually watching and enjoying something I have written.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#17. Every breath is a sacred life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. Be thankful for quality competitors who push you to your limit.

Michael Josephson