Quotes About Convenience

The remarkable rise of 'convenience' or processed foods—heralded by slogans 'instant,' 'ready to cook' and 'heat and serve'—has set off a revolution in U.S. eating habits, brought a bit of magic into the U.S. kitchen.

If she [Mrs. Homemaker] didn't know how much she needed convenience, it was up to inventors like Clausi to show her the way.

Carl Sagan caught the attention of college audiences on his lecture tours by pointing out that, if aliens are watching us from outer space, they must be assuming that automobiles are the dominant life-form; we service them, maintain them, fuel them, house them, and build roads for their convenience rather than our own.

every single lawyer who had worked on Trump's first impeachment was conveniently unavailable.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

I can't believe you won't get Lasik already. You can afford it. I know you read someone went blind from it, but that was like twenty years ago. Not getting Lasik at this point is like being that girl in 2006 who didn't have a cell phone.

A meal that can be packed and frozen and thawed is nothing you should desire--much less teach your kids to want.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

What a pure blessing it was to have a bath in a tub alone in a room where all you had to do was pump the water, not tote buckets. Then all you had to do was pull out the cork, not tote more buckets to the back porch--that kind of thing is easy to take lightly until you don't have it.

The automatic rice cooker was launched in 1955 in Japan, revolutionizing housewives' daily routines. Before that, people cooked rice in a heavy pot over a stove.

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

THE TROUBLE with automation is that it often gives us what we don't need at the cost of what we do.

That same year, the futurist Edward Bellamy suggested, in a Harper's article, that people would come to read "with the eyes shut." They would carry around a tiny audio player, called an "indispensable," which would contain all their books, newspapers, and magazines.

The internet, as its proponents rightly remind us, makes for variety and convenience; it does not force anything on you. Only it turns out it doesn't feel like that at all. We don't feel as if we had freely chosen our online practices. We feel instead that they are habits we have helplessly picked up or that history has enforced, that we are not distributing our attention as we intend or even like to."1

The internet, as its proponents rightly remind us, makes for variety and convenience; it does not force anything upon you. Only it turns out it doesn't feel like that at all. We don't feel as if we had freely chosen our online practices. We feel instead that they are habits we have helplessly picked up or that history has enforced, that we are not distributing our attention as we intend or even like to

The whole point of straws, I had thought, was that you did not have to set down the slice of pizza to suck a dose of Coke while reading a paperback.

What is easier for us isn't necessarily what is better for us.

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.

The two worst things ever invented was air-conditioning and television. First, the air-conditioning made it so folks didn't want to go out of doors no more. And since they was all cooped up inside their cold houses, they needed something to do, so some other feller invented television. Now, you tell me one good thing ever come from them two contraptions." He paused. "You can't, can you?

Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarrelling in the greatest possible comfort and convenience.

Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarreling in the greatest comfort and convenience. Oh, please, Althea, look at me. Do say yes.

Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!

Romesh Chand was a man who did not believe in telephones, in the necessity for telephones