Quotes About Consumption

Luxury] corrupts both rich and poor, the rich by having it and the poor by wanting it.

This rat was not just eating the sugar. He was bathing in it, wallowing in it, positively luxuriating in it, his flickering tail hanging over the side of the bowl, flinging sugar across the table.

We have eco-friendly shrimp. We can make them; we have that technology. But we can never have an eco-friendly all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet. It doesn't work.

Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.

Maneater -- make you work hard, make you spend hard, make you want all of her love.

Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.

If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises.

Ideally, in the future, you'll just pay your cable company for the stream, which you'll be able to watch and manipulate through whatever means on whatever devices you like.

I don't stream or buy CDs... pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.

People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.

For the most part, rock fans don't go and buy CDs any more, very rarely. It's pretty much about downloads and streaming.

We all consume Netflix and other streaming services in different ways. Sometimes, it's a movie you're really going to focus on; other times, it's background noise to something else, where you won't really pay attention.

I think that with these streaming shows, sometimes it takes a little time for everybody to - because they know they have time, you know it's up there - you'll get to it when you get to it. It sort of like, 'Oh, it's on my list.'

With streaming, everything is focused on singles. That means an artist's depth doesn't have the chance to shine through.

What's interesting about the 21st century is how people deal with cultural history. We don't necessarily feel like there are discrete categories. We consume it as a complete package, whether it's down the street or on the other side of the globe.

Now, walking in the streets, people seem to have become richer and more willing to consume. It seems like everybody is ushering in a better future. This has given me great satisfaction and driven me to do more.

With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort to consume this product and that the project is being consumed by just one person at a time. I really want to play to that strength because it's one of the few advantages books still have.

I never strike out at any life form. The only things I attack are icons of conspicuous consumption. People put objects in front of their life, in front of anything that has real importance. They make this 'thing' their God.

I remember, for the first time, sitting down and consuming books in a matter of hours. This was such a new experience for me because reading, up until that point, had been such a struggle and source of stress. I think I just needed to find the right kind of stories with which I could identify.

When you consume a half hour or an hour of television, you can talk about what happened as opposed to consuming ten hours of content, and then you don't remember everything you want to talk about.

The world is changing, and the way we consume music is obviously changing. I was one of the biggest CD advocates you will find, but when Apple music and digital options came out, like for everyone else, it was more conducive to my lifestyle.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.

Gadgets - our houses are filled with them: ones we need, ones we think we need, and others that were a good idea at the time, but have never made it out of their boxes.