Quotes About Consumption

I don't go to McDonald's anymore. After I saw Super Size Me... no way!

Blogs are nothing more than a personal meandering diary for public consumption - a narcissist's dream. So you can imagine when bloggers take themselves - and their blogs - seriously, it's super annoying.

We all understand the economics of the Super Bowl - 10 or 12 minutes of the ball in motion will be stretched into three and a half hours or more of money-making commercials.

World was in the face of the beloved--, but suddenly it poured out and was gone: world is outside, world can not be grasped. Why didn't I, from the full, beloved face as I raised it to my lips, why didn't I drink world, so near that I couldn't almost taste it? Ah, I drank. Insatiably I drank. But I was filled up also, with too much world, and, drinking, I myself ran over.

Eating, too, has been turned away from its true nature: want on the one hand and superfluity on the other have troubled the clarity of this need, and all the profound, simple necessities in which life renews itself have similarly been obscured.

Greed, we know, is at play in today's India. The 'me first' outlook is rampant.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

La tuna de cactus no es tóxica. No hay ningún estudio que señale alguna reacción tóxica, ya sea aguda o crónica, debido al consumo de tuna o de algún producto derivado de la fruta.

La mayoría de las investigaciones que se han realizado sobre cactus nopal experimentan con la variedad OS. Con todo, la variedad OS es menos agradable al paladar que las variedades de OFI. Esta última especie es la que comúnmente se vende y usa como fuente comestible en México

God created us to love people and use things, but materialists love things and use people.

Every item I add to my possessions is one more thing to think about, talk about, clean, repair, display, rearrange, and replace when it goes bad.

In the United States there are sixteen-and-a-half square feet of mall space for every man, woman, and child.

I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.

Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it. - The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.

The fire crackled up the stairs. It fed upon Picassos and Matisses in the upper halls, like delicacies, baking off the oily flesh, tenderly crisping the canvases into black shavings.

So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms . . . His hands were ravenous.

A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.

It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.

It was a pleasure to burn

Que la gente intervenga en concursos donde haya que recordar las palabras de las canciones más populares, o los nombres de las capitales de los Estados, o cuánto maíz cosechó Iowa el último año. Llénalos de noticias incombustibles. Sentirán que la información los ahoga, pero se creerán inteligentes.

burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.

La gente era como las antorchas, que ardían hasta consumirse. ¿Acaso había muchas personas cuyos rostros captaban algo tuyo y te devolvían tu propia expresión, tus pensamientos más íntimos?