Shopping Mall Quotes

#1. Once a teen has been identified as part of the 'target market,' he knows he's done for. The object of the game is to confound the marketers, and keep one's own, authentic culture from showing up at the shopping mall as a prepackaged corporate product.

Douglas Rushkoff

#2. It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.

John Doerr

#3. My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

Yanis Varoufakis

#4. I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.

Fran Drescher

#5. Someone dropped her off in a shopping mall food court just before her third birthday. Pinned to her dress was a note with the name Anna, a date of birth, and the words, This child is possessed.

Rysa Walker

#6. God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.

Florence King

#7. It's fun to go to a supermarket or a park or a shopping mall where human beings convene. They're so caught up in their own personal reality as to not see life, except in terms that add to or detract from their movie.

Frederick Lenz

#8. I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic.

Charles Bukowski

#9. I was in the shopping mall because that's where I go lately. For the last couple of weeks, I've been going there every day, trying to figure out why people go there. It's kind of a personal project.

Stephen Chbosky

#10. If you stay half-alert, you can pick the spectacular performers right from your place of business or out of the neighborhood shopping mall, and long before Wall Street discovers them.

Thomas Rowe Price Jr.

#11. I don't know what I'm supposed to do now. I know other people have it a lot worse. I do know that, but it's crashing in anyway, and I just can't stop thinking that the little kid eating french fries with his mom in the shopping mall is going to grow up and my sister.

Stephen Chbosky

#12. She was in the middle of a city [Nominally a city. It was the size of an English county town, or, translated into American terms, a shopping mall.] at the time.

Terry Pratchett

#13. Sheets of flowing raven-black hair ... all wrapped up in that saccharin sweetness you only find in church-ladies and Girl Scout moms. It was enough to make a girl sprint to the nearest shopping mall for a free makeover.

Cecily White

#14. If you spend fifteen minutes in a shopping mall, you will pass more people than our ancestors saw during their entire lifetimes.

Rolf Dobelli

#15. There are screens at the gas station, there are screens at the shopping mall. And they all need content.

Mark Burnett

#16. It seemed that after he was killed, Gadhafi's body was stored at a commercial freezer at a shopping mall. It's one thing to hunt a guy down and shoot him twice in the head, but then to drag him to the mall? Come on, guys hate that.

Jay Leno

#17. Welcome to Tippington Fountains Shopping Center!" The doors opened to reveal the shopping mall before them. The store doors sparkled with shiny chrome handles, glass elevators rose smoothly between

Daisy Meadows

#18. I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for 36 hours straight. I slept in shopping mall parking lots. A stand-up gig paid $35; then I could eat for another few days until the next gig. Literally, I was performing to live.

Dat Phan

#19. You walk into any supermarket or any shopping mall and ask the public what they are worried about. Not one of them will tell you they are worried about 12 years of Mitt Romney's tax returns.

John Sununu

#20. This isn't just a shopping mall. It's more like ... "
"A religious experience?"
"Exactly! It's like going to church ...

J.G. Ballard

#21. Walk around any shopping mall, and you will see stores and restaurants opened six months ago and are - that are now closing. In the life of a company, eight years is an eternity.

Ronald Kessler

#22. Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport - every single time, something could happen. That's how terrorism works.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#23. If you've ever walked a mile into a virgin forest - you know, like a deep forest where trees have been uncut - the energy is totally different from the shopping mall.

James Redfield

#24. In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.

Henry Rollins

#25. He liked to mingle with shopping mall crowds. "I'm counting on you to tell me, Jack." "Tell you what?" "You're the only person I know that's educated enough to give me the answer." "The answer to what?" "Were people this dumb before television?" One

Don DeLillo

#26. And he would take a roadside attraction, no matter how cheap, how crooked, or how sad, over a shopping mall, any day. M

Neil Gaiman

#27. When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part, it really gives pause to wonder what and who we are within a larger framework than linear adventures at the shopping mall and taxes.

Vanna Bonta

#28. The most outragous thing that I could imagine ever doing is putting on a pair of jeans and going to the shopping mall for my lunch

Marilyn Manson

#29. The "cumulative effects" of unbridled commercialism, however difficult to assess, constitute one key to the impact of growing up in the core of the world's marketing system. Minimally, it suggests unpreparedness for, and lack of interest in, the world that exists outside the shopping mall.

Herbert Schiller

#30. I love shopping! I'm impatient though. I'll go to the mall and in 30 minutes be ready to go.

Ciara

#31. I love chocolate, and I love to shop - just give me a good boutique. I like mall scenarios, too, because there's more right there at hand. I think Nashville could use some better shopping!

Carrie Underwood

#32. Once when I was at Newark Mall, me, my friends, my cousin, and my bodyguard were shopping and looking for suitcases cuz we had all these clothes. On our way out, two girls started whispering. The next thing we know, we had at least 200-300 people walking behind us, like the whole mall!

Lil' Romeo

#33. Wandering around the mall and giggling at magazines doesn't interest me. I've never enjoyed shopping. I detest shoes.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#34. I was shopping at my local mall in Dallas that I've gone to for like three years now. And everyone was like "Oh my God, who's that? Who's that?" And I was like whatever, because you know, there are like 20 people traveling with me. It's like I have an entourage following me
which is so funny.

Cheyenne Kimball

#35. Between my hatred of mall shopping and my mother's firm ideas about how a girl should dress, my style choices were pretty unenthusiastic: plaid skirts or whatever empire-waisted thingamabob was on sale at Sears.

Mary Gaitskill

#36. A new lover. Fresh knowledge and a virgin body to paw. Shopping together for wicker furniture in the mall. Visiting the lingerie store. Picking out matching shotguns.

Kenneth J. Harvey

#37. I been to many malls from state to state,But I've never been in, say, one this great.I hate to say, about the other shopping centers that's left,But the Albee Square Mall is the doo-doo-def!

Biz Markie

#38. If you can't find an answer at the mall or the library, what does that say about the world?

Joan Bauer

#39. I usually go into a store with a mission. My idea of a fun thing to do would not be to go to a mall and shopping.

Isla Fisher

#40. Are we genuinely prepared to say that working in an office building or shopping in a mall is real, while reading Tolstoy is not?

Sarah Arthur

#41. Children are perceptive, and if they see leaders and parents talk with boredom and apathy about faith yet become overtly passionate about sports teams or shopping malls, they will think the sport or the mall is more attractive than Jesus.

Matt Chandler