Quotes About Consumption

He had never been keen on providing sustenance, only taking it.

How much Tayven had been like good food: a delight to the senses. People had wanted to gorge on him and they had. But the flavors eventually had become bitter.

skoofed his way through a tin of Irn-Bru.

He was a simple, animal hunger, and he didn't care what he was eating or how it tasted . It was like taking aspirin to make a headache go away. You don't enjoy the aspirin

I've never understood a society of want. We don't have a society of want—not on a general level. We have a society of total surplus: unwanted goods and unwanted people.

When I was old enough to know better, I ate a bar of soap in the shape of the Muppets' Fozzie Bear, because I loved him so much I wanted to consume him, even if doing so made me ill. I didn't yet know the word 'foreshadowing.' Fozzie was the only first of many pop-culture icons I feel shaped by.

Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.

You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.

The feed was probably the biggest innovation in social media of late. But the interesting thing about a feed is that the more content you consume, the farther in time you go.

It's so funny how social media was just this fun thing, and now it's this monster that consumes so many millennial lives.

If schooling becomes little more than preparation for the job market and consumption, it cannot produce socially responsible and altruistic citizens.

A lot of the economy is indeed being supplied by goods that are produced offshore. And much of the reason for that is societal.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.

Could the garment and appliance industries be in cahoots together, creating an artificial sock demand to keep us buying?

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

When I was growing up, I was eating fast food every day. I'd drink soda non-stop, candy, just everything. It was horrible. My go-to was McDonald's, for sure.

A lot of people say they eat, drink, and sleep sports, but does anyone really do it, ingesting nothing but Dodger Dogs and Soda Shaqs and Greg Norman Zinfandels 24/7?

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer preferences alone, but rather are linked to broader issues of access and affordability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods, and to the marketing efforts of soda companies themselves.

I don't drink soda.

I used to drink soda everyday, Hi-C everyday, and Hawaiian punch. That's how I grew up in Brooklyn.

I'm not a soda or energy drink guy.

You can have a soda every once in awhile, but don't drink a gallon of it a day.