Jon Anderson Quotes

Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult.

I love buying things. I could be one of those crazy hoarders.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

I actually hate shopping.

I'm the kind of person who buys a new thing, wears it so much and then is totally sick of it.

I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.

I shop more than most women.

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.

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.

In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.

Because I love shopping, my house is overflowing with clothes. Most of them were bought by myself.

I look about my house and see there are lots of lovely things in it, but I constantly buy more.

I have to confess that I've never been a great fan of Christmas or, as it's known in our house, The Monster That Ate the Last Third of the Year. It's mostly the rampant consumerism I object to, but I'm also a little wary of the annual crop of new Christmas stories and sometimes wonder why anyone bothers.

I am a shopaholic, like to wear make-up, and believe in vanity.

I walked inside Macy’s and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for themselves. Without the instant gratification of a self-aimed purchase, everyone walked around in the tactical stupor of the financially obligated.

Consider Christmas - could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system whereby several hundred million people get a billion or so gifts for which they have no use, and some thousands of shop clerks die of exhaustion while selling them, and every other child in the Western world is made ill from overeating - all in the name of the lowly Jesus?

I'm a bit of a clothes hoarder, admittedly.

I live in Selfridges because it has everything under one roof. Liberty's is great for the same reason - I'm so lazy, I hate walking from shop to shop. Powder in Crouch End always has great designer labels in, so when I walk past I have to put my blinkers on because every time I nip in I come out with too much stuff; it's dangerous.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

The problem with me is, anything that's easy I will just overdo it. Especially with clothes. But I'm 14 - my mom is super-strict about that.

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.

I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.

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

Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.

I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.