{"quotes":[{"text":"Remember what I used to tel you when you were a little girl? ‘A fool and her money soon part.’ Current-day translation? Stop pissing away your assets at Bloomingdale’s.","author":"Sophie Kinsella","tags":["addict","addiction","bloomingdales","confession","money","shop","shopaholic","shopping"],"id":12416,"author_id":"Sophie+Kinsella"},{"text":"The front desk man is a spy for a famous French chef, hoping to stealing the pastry recipes of the shop down the street. And the lovely shop girl who just delivered a box of-- what is most certainly-- pastries is his secret accomplice. The note she passed him while blushing has a recipe for the perfect croissant.","author":"jessic lawson","tags":["box-of","croissant","french-chef","front-desk","girl","man","pastries","recipe","shop","spy"],"id":55759,"author_id":"jessic+lawson"},{"text":"Visiting any shop for the first time is exciting. There's always that buzz as you push open the door; that hope; that belief - that this is going to be the shop of all shops, which will bring you everything you ever wanted, at magically low prices.","author":"Sophie Kinsella","tags":["book","love","shop","shopaholic"],"id":113266,"author_id":"Sophie+Kinsella"},{"text":"Out of the current confusion of ideals and and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.","author":"Matthew B. Crawford","tags":["career","craftmanship","crawford","shop"],"id":120223,"author_id":"Matthew+B.+Crawford"},{"text":"Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.","author":"Marc Bekoff","tags":["animal-rights","ethics","law","shop","vegan"],"id":120674,"author_id":"Marc+Bekoff"},{"text":"If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["21st-century","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","business","clever","earning","economist","economy","expenditure","fool","inspirational","modern","money","motivational","philosophy","poor","poverty","reserve","rich","richness","save-money","saving","shop","shopping","social-media","social-networking","spending","wealth","wisdom"],"id":148180,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?","author":"Virginia Woolf","tags":["book","books","face","faces","pages","search","shop","shops","window","windows"],"id":150541,"author_id":"Virginia+Woolf"},{"text":"Nothing belongs to itself anymore. These trees are yours because you once looked at them. These streets are yours because you once traversed them. These coffee shops and bookshops, these cafés and bars, their sole owner is you. They gave themselves so willingly, surrendering to your perfume. You sang with the birds and they stopped to listen to you. You smiled at the sheepish stars and they fell into your hair. The sun and moon, the sea and mountain, they have all left from heartbreak. Nothing belongs to itself anymore. You once spoke to Him, and then God became yours. He sits with us in darkness now to plot how to make you ours.” K.K.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["anymore","bar","belong","belonging","belongs","beloved","birds","bookshop","bookstore","boyfriend","cafe","coffee-shop","dark","darkness","girlfriend","god","hair","heartbreak","husband","in-love","itself","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","listen","love","love-poems","love","lover","loving","moon","mountain","nature","nothing","owner","partner","perfume","plot","restaurant","roads","romantic-poems","sang","sea","sheepish","shop","short-love-poems","sit","smile","stars","store","streets","sun","traversed","trees","valentine","wife"],"id":237855,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it again.(Confessions of a Shopaholic-the movie).","author":"Sophie Kinsella","tags":["again","better","clothes","money","shop","shopping","spend","world"],"id":238113,"author_id":"Sophie+Kinsella"},{"text":"When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["adage","advertisement","agency","alliterations","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","blog","blogging","book-writing","building-company","bureau","business","catch-lines","catchphrases","characters","combine","commercial-undertaking","company","concern","conglomerate","consortium","cooperative","corporate","corporation","creative-writing","dollar","employees","enterprise","entrepreneur","entrepreneurship","essay","establishment","excuses","firm","franchise","group","house","industry","inspirational","investment","knowledge","money","motivational","movie","movie-dialogue","novel-writing","office","operation","organization","partnership","philosophy","practice","proverbs","public-speaking","punchline","quotes","reasons","rhetoric","script","script-writing","scriptwriting","share-market","shop","social-networking","speech","speechwriting","startup","startups","stocks","story","syndicate","tag-lines","venture","wisdom","writing"],"id":243694,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}