Quotes About Consumption

A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.

We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.

[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.

We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from radiating influence even if we want to.

Waste today, want tomorrow.

These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.

There is only a recession of the things that people don't want.

The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

the kind of kiss that said, I want to consume every inch of you and hear you scream my name.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions.

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.

Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them?

He wanted to open her up like a new WalMart.

Eat your heart out. Oh, wait. You can't. It's not organic.

She gazed around the kitchen. Where was the junk food? The bags of tortilla chips and tubs of Ben & Jerry's? Where was the stockpile of potato chips, the stash of peanut butter cups? No salty, crunchy things. No sweet indulgences. In its own way, this kitchen was as creepy as the other one.

That's the thing about luxury, darlings. The moment you become accustomed to it, it is no longer a luxury but a necessity. People forget this.

Fire is always hungry for things that don't belong to it.

The taste of him exploded inside her mouth, filling her senses with an intoxicating warmth and aroma that had nothing to do with the amount of brandy he had consumed. He made sounds-rough, greedy, indistinct sounds that vibrated through her tissues, his lips and teeth and tongue consuming her with his passion.

To the one who does the butchering, eating will always be a sacrament. The flesh in the dome of your mouth, your flesh, this fallen world.

In the physics of fire, there is a chemical phenomenon known as a stoichiometric condition, in which a fire achieves the perfect burning ratio of oxygen to fuel—in other words, there is exactly enough air available for the fire to consume all of what it is burning.

The fire flashed through Fiction, consuming as it traveled. It reached for the cookbooks. The cookbooks roasted.

I EAT THE DARK

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.