Quotes About Consumption

Daily, caffeine proposes itself as the optimal solution to the problem caffeine creates. How brilliant!

YOU ARE WHAT WHAT YOU EAT EATS TOO.

The ratio of feed to flesh in chicken, the most efficient animal by this measure, is two pounds of corn to one of meat, which is why chicken costs less than beef.

AVOID FOOD PRODUCTS CONTAINING INGREDIENTS THAT ARE A) UNFAMILIAR, B) UNPRONOUNCEABLE, C) MORE THAN FIVE IN NUMBER, OR THAT INCLUDE D) HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP.

The adult human brain accounts for 2 percent of our body weight but consumes 18 percent of our energy, all of which must come from a carbohydrate.

Try as we might, each of us can eat only about 1500 pounds of food a year. What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is somewhere around 1% every year (growth of American population).

From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure

Everyone knows that if you eat a cookie, and the cookie next to it is broken, you're required to eat that broken cookie as well to keep the package looking clean.

If we look at the rise of our own civilization over the past 100,000 years, since modern humans emerged in Africa, it can be seen as the story of rising energy consumption.

Asl?nda meta fetiÅŸizmi, cinsel fetiÅŸizmi bolca kullan?r: Bir meta reklâm?n?n, al?c?n?n cinsel bak?mdan daha güçlü, cinsel bak?mdan daha doygun, kar?? cinsin gözünde daha çekici olaca?? sezdirilmeden yap?labildiÄŸine pek rastlanmaz.

Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

Mendengarkan warta berita sama saja dengan menghisap sebatang rokok yang segera kita buang jika habis.

La tension dramatique, c'est la véritable malédiction du roman parce qu'elle transforme tout, même les plus belles pages, même les scènes et les observations les plus surprenantes, en une simple étape menant au dénouement final, où se concentre le sens de tout ce qui précède. Dévoré par le feu de sa propre tension, le roman se consume comme une botte de paille

Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.

I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc.

I love Japanese design and fabrics. I also love people who make clothes for mass consumption but do it well and cleverly.

I'm a great admirer, fan and consumer of television. I love serial drama. I have been a major fan of HBO's series for many years.

O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate

I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.

When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.

I love fashion and beauty and all those things, I still do but I think that it has changed the shift, that the greed is ruling the planet right now.

Human beings suck the life out of everything that's beautiful.