Quotes About Consumption

Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.

Let's throw away our throwaway culture

Gandhi said that we have enough resources for the need of us all, but not for the greed of us all," he recited. "And this is Thomas Kocherry's quotation: 'The life of the planet, and the dependent health of humanity, cannot be sacrificed for the greed of a few.

The difference is that the heat energy we radiate is a high-entropy form of energy, meaning it's disordered. The chemical energy we absorb is a low-entropy form of energy, meaning it's ordered. In effect, we are consuming order and generating disorder; we live by increasing the disorder of the universe. It's only because the universe started in a highly ordered state that we are able to exist at all.

For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.

Everyone has a really short attention span, and you have to bombard them with content, content, content.

People have got no attention span these days with music - I come from the time where I bought the whole album and listened to it back to back.

We're a fast-moving, needy species.

Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym.

It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.

For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough products to enough people with enough speed.

Innovations, instantly followed by a demented lust for them, now arrive with dizzying speed, not just daily, but in one-hour delivery slots.

I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.

When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburgers to sell to Americans, who have the highest rate of heart disease in the world (and spend the most money per GNP on health care), we can say easily that business is no longer developing the world. We have become its predator.

It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.

I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.

If expectations of lifetime earnings drop, then so will spending.

With interest rates artificially low, consumers reduce savings in favor of consumption, and entrepreneurs increase their rates of investment spending.

The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

I'm not very good with spending money.

You don't help the economy by spending money.