We're not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which everyone lives like an American. Billions more people living in suburbs and driving SUVs to shopping malls is a recipe for planetary suicide. We can't even afford to continue that way of life ourselves.

- Alex Steffen

I'm paranoid about shopping. I get irritable. I find it tedious and taxing. People say shopping is retail therapy, but I need therapy after shopping.

- Anushka Sharma

I find shopping too stressful. I get hot and flustered and irritated and feel sick after I've bought something.

- Alison Goldfrapp

When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.

- Arabella Weir

Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean.

- Angela Kinsey

My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre generosity with family, friends and even strangers.

- Andy Behrman

I'm not going to go mystery shopping in the NHS because we have a million people every day using it and rating its facilities.

- Andrew Lansley

My idea of hell is a girlfriend ringing up and saying, 'Let's go shopping and have cocktails.' I'd rather play cards.

- Alison Moyet

I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this top. It's very 'Mad Men.'

- Alison Brie

Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping trips to buy stuff that'll spend a few short months in our homes and long centuries in our landfills.

- Alex Steffen

I'm not really into clubbing, I like to go to parties after events, and those do end up at clubs or bars. But in my free time I go grocery shopping or to the gym, or I talk on the phone.

- Amanda Seyfried

Every day is different when I'm home, but mainly I just surf. There's no nightlife or shopping, so it's pretty mellow but really nice to come back to after a trip or an event. If you're traveling, you're all stressed out, then you get to Kauai, and nothing matters anymore.

- Alana Blanchard

You re-watch 'Napoleon Dynamite', and there's a lot of thrift shopping that goes on in that movie; there's a lot of funny stuff. It's definitely amusing, and paying 99 cents for a samurai sword is amazing.

- Al Madrigal

People are saying fashion week is no longer just a press event, it has become a shopping event because of us.

- Aslaug Magnusdottir

I like shopping from the comfort of my bed whilst my husband is asleep beside me.

- Ashley Madekwe

The building in the Bronx where I grew up was filled with mostly Holocaust survivors. My two best friends' parents both survived the camps. Everyone in my grandparents' building had tattoos. I'd go shopping with my grandparents, and the butcher, the baker, everybody in the whole neighborhood had tattoos.

- Amy Heckerling

I make a fair amount of my food choices for environmental-type reasons than nutrition or taste. I'm trying to minimize impact, which is something most people don't necessarily think about when they're shopping.

- Alex Honnold

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

- Annie Lennox

Believe me, I've done my time travelling the world in cramped conditions and carrying my own luggage. Now my leisure is summers in the south of France or the Hamptons, walking in Connemara, and year-round shopping in Manhattan and Paris.

- Anne Robinson

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

- Anita Roddick