Shopping List Quotes

Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.

When I go shopping, I try to specify certain things for certain events, but most of the time, I have so much stuff to pull from at home in the closet.

I love grocery shopping. It's one of my favorite things. I don't want to become an ordering-food-online person.

I'm a terrible grocery shopper. I hardly ever do it. And if I do, there's never more than three things in the bag.

I'm a very fast shopper. I'm very quick; whether it's big money or small money, it really doesn't matter to me. I just get all my things that I need together and get out as quickly as possible.

Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.

Organize yourself so you aren't struggling to shop at the last minute. When you have real food, it's very easy to cook.

I am the worst at the grocery store. It turns into three carts. It turns into, 'Oh did you see the truffle cheese? We've got to get the truffle cheese!'

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.

One beautiful day, a radiant day, Mr Roman Abramovich introduced himself to me and said I should put a shopping list together.

If I go to the store, I'm not trying to slip in the middle of the aisle so I can talk about it onstage. I'm at the store because I need food or medicine.

My wife says I can't remember if she has milk in coffee.

After assessing what's in your closet, make a list of what you need. Not want, but need. Write down the basics missing from your wardrobe. It could be a classic white shirt, a trenchcoat, or the perfect little black dress. Whatever the blank spots, write them down. This will be your reference for shopping.

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?

I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. I would come home from friends's houses with a list of demands. 'OK, We have all the wrong cereals. You guys are asleep on the job.'

One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.

I organize everything. The kids' lunch to the finances to the spending to the house, groceries, everything.

I am a compulsive and concise shopper.

Don't shop when you're hungry or in a grumpy mood. You need to feel happy and confident to make the best decisions.

I go with my wife Gill to the supermarket, but not often.

I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'

If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.

I shop at the market, and that informs what I make.

It's important to go into the grocery store with a plan and a list. But it's a skeleton - you need to know how to deviate from it and adapt it to what ingredients are available and fresh.