Quotes About Consumption

You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it.

Time has changed and now is the age of spending.

I'm truly obsessed by clothes. I just buy clothes all the time.

The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.

F1 is a fight for people's time. There are millions of options today for how to spend it. That is probably the biggest difference from 1968 to now.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.

for he seemed only able to inhale it by thimblefuls

He put his foot on it, and lifted one of the sleeves out with his teeth, and chewed and chewed at it, gradually taking it in, and all the while opening and closing his eyes in a kind of religious ecstasy, as if he had never tasted anything as good as an overcoat before, in his life.

I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too.

The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.

Maybe the only thing that matters is to make our lives last as long as we do. You know, to make a life last until it ends, to make all the parts come out even, like when you rub the last piece of bread in the last drop of oil on your plate and eat it with the last sip of wine in your glass.

I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites. It had been well over 35,000 hours or so since then, with still not much murdering, but probably, I don't know, a little under 35,000 hours of movies, serials, books, plays, and music consumed. As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.

My clothes are made of monosodium glutamate and hexachlorophene. My food is made of polyester, rayon and lurex. My rug lotions contain vitamins. Do my vitamins feature cleaning agents? I hope so. My brain is gimmicked by a microprocessor the size of a quark, and costing ten pee and running the whole deal. I am made of — junk, I'm just junk.

Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my free time.

Pero una vez que la vida ha echado a rodar, no puedes ponerle fin. No tienes la libertad de hacerlo. Hay que aguantar hasta el final. La vida se acabará. Sé exactamente cuánta me queda. Es como si fuera a durar eternamente. Me siento único, eterno. La inmortalidad que me consume es sólo mía.

homonormativity"—namely, the gay white middle-class focus on consumption and domesticity. The liberationists' goal is radical transformation, not liberal tinkering.

Our culture is obsessed with physical health and soundness. It advises us to avoid junk food, read labels, shop in whole-food stores, and pay more for organic foods. As a result, many people watch what they eat. But sadly, most are utterly unconcerned about their spiritual consumption. They are unaware that they are ingesting a lot of contaminated, unhealthy ideas.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. Where do you think that I have been?" "A fixture also." "On the contrary, I have been to Devonshire." "In spirit?" "Exactly. My body has remained in this arm-chair and has, I regret to observe, consumed in my absence two large pots of coffee and an incredible amount of tobacco.

Por eso los sueños son tan peligrosos: abrasan como el fuego y a veces nos consumen completamente.

This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.

Por eso los sueños son tan peligrosos: abrasan como el fuego y te consumen completamente

Los sueños son muy peligrosos: abrasan como el fuego y a veces nos consumen completamente.

It is necessary to hammer every sentence into the masses by repetition and simplification. What is presented as right must shine like gold; what is presented as wrong must be black as pitch. For consumption by the masses, the political processes must be coloured like ginger-bread figures at a fair.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.