Quotes About Consumption

They represent tomorrow's cigarette business. . . As this 14-24 age group matures, they will account for a key share of the total cigarette volume -- for at least the next 25 years.

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.

The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

Resource efficiency - it's about only taking what we need

We're operating this planet like a business in liquidation.

We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning. Our tastes were acquired on credit, and we wanted to keep on enjoying 'em on credit.

I'm a big believer that media is an impulse business.

It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.

Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.

Living an environmentally responsible lifestyle can seem like a Scrooge-like list of don'ts. Don't take that flight, don't buy that car, don't eat those blueberries flown in from somewhere far-flung.

The cement in our whole democracy today is the worker who makes $ 15 an hour. He's the guy who will buy a house and a car and a refrigerator. He's the oil in the engine.

If everybody (traded his car for a horse) they would be out of debt in a couple of years. Just think, no gas, no tires, no roads to pay for.

Did we put our kids in 0.5-mile-per-gallon (mpg) tanks and 17 feet per gallon aircraft carriers because we failed to put them in 32-mpg cars?

Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.

I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.

I'm really not a person who consumes a lot. I don't have a sports car.

About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks.

A mesma verdade que existe na verdade. Se consome pelo uso. Ou se reforça pela ausência. Ou nem coisa nem outra. O mistério permanece e nos espanta sempre.

He visited the country house of a goldsmith, Sir Robert Viner, where 'he showed me a black boy that he had that died of a consumption; and being dead, he caused him to be dried in an oven, and lies there entire in a box'.

What is called gluttony in one man is a healthy appetite in someone else.

We might treat a rabbit as a pet or become emotionally attached to a goose, but we had come from cities and supermarkets, where flesh was hygienically distanced from any resemblance to living creatures. A shrink-wrapped pork chop has a sanitized, abstract appearance that has nothing whatever to do with the warm, mucky bulk of a pig. Out here in the country there was no avoiding the direct link between death and dinner.