Quotes About Consumption

I longed to be able to gather my whole life-force into a single impulse, and transmit it to her and blow into her frozen remains the fire that was consuming me.

Love will consume us only in the measure of our self-surrender.

What a rich man gives and what he consumes, that is his real worth.

What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as an appendage of the process of material production, without autonomy or substance of its own.

Reduzidas a pura homenagem, as obras de arte pervertidas e corruptas são secretamente empurradas pelos beneficiados para o meio dos trastes, com os quais são assimiladas. Os consumidores podem se alegrar que haja tanta coisa para ver e ouvir. Praticamente pode-se ter tudo.

The more people have time to experience the joys of creativity, the less they will be consumers, especially of mass-produced culture. I see that as a kind of new wealth that counts for more than owning material things. I also see art as something people will do rather than consume, and do it as a natural part of their lives; creative endeavors are a form of profound spiritual satisfaction.

By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet.

The buffalo eats grass, I eat him, and when I die, the earth eats me and sprouts more grass. Therefore nothing is ever lost, and each thing is everything forever, though all things move.

What it means is you will fight until you're all used up. Far from being sour, life is so sweet you will live it to the hilt and be consumed by it.

Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.

The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row, when I can.

I love Netflix and Amazon and watching movies on streamers as much as the next person.

Thanks to Netflix and Hulu, people are getting more and more used to consuming longer stretches of content on their televisions or computer screens.

Creating anything new is incredibly difficult. It's just so much easier to sit on the couch and watch Netflix and just consume.

You know, people aren't watching a network: they're watching cable channels.

For every new thing that I buy, I have to throw something out.

Not everyone necessarily needs new things all the time and creative designs. It's good to have luxury restaurants and fast-food restaurants. You need both.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

We're news junkies in my house.

The next level of mass consumption - and India is known for its consumption story - is really going to come from consumption in the rural areas. So that's going to throw up a lot of unique opportunities.

A movie is a mass consumption product. I have got no delusions about being niche. I don't want to be niche. Though in the earlier part of my career I was into niche cinema, doing independent films - and I do have a revolutionary bent of mind - but you cannot make a change from outside; you have to be a part of it.

I may eat nine bowls of dog food, because eight isn't enough.