Quotes About Consumption

Hungry people are eventually going to eat, and eat with a vengeance!

Les vrais besoins ont une limite naturelle: nourriture, vêtements, abris, soins… Le superflu, lui, n'a pas de limite.

La frénésie qu'est devenu le travail agricole est comme le signe d'une discordance grave avec les rythmes de l'univers. Les tracteurs vont et viennent. Ils exigent des terres aussi planes et vastes que possible. Ils répandent des poisons violents afin, paraît-il, que les hommes puissent manger. Quelques-uns ont en effet mangé, puis ont trop mangé, et leur vie est devenue une seule et unique préoccupation lancinante et triste : comment digérer ? (p.217)

knew how hungrily they would lap up the twin rivers of blood and milk.

She was starting to feel a little like a hamburger at a dieters' convention. Nobody was likely to snack on her, but absolutely everybody noticed she was edible.

a household was a creature of bottomless hungers. It ravened for wood and coal and white starch, for sailcloth and bread and ale; for breath and sinew, and life itself, which wreathed away invisibly beneath the press of daily labor like the wax of a lit candle.

If you let the news spoil your appetite, there wouldn't be a day you could eat.

The penitent face of the religieuse collapsed into the greedy hookworm maw, as though it ate its own false countenance

With the thirst of an insatiable swillpot, he had poured down the fiction of two generations of deep thinkers, and he was pickled in their

she mainlines books as though they're heroin.

the basic problem with the average man and woman was precisely that they were so average and that there were so many of them, taking far more than they gave to the world, quite incapable of managing their own lives intelligently let alone society, government, the economy, and the environment

Newspaper columnist Dave Barry once wrote that the motto of the wedding industry is, 'Money can't buy you happiness, so you might as well give your money to us.

But how come it's always the poor who are expected to eat the food that's good for them no matter how it tastes?

Men would eat horse droppings, if ye served them wi' butter.

actually had eaten something.

When I was young, I ate Ho Hos every day.

Aw man, I spend it pretty much as fast as I make it. If I want something, I don't wait around and plan or nothing. I just go out and get it.

Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.

I like to know what's in my food and in my drinks. It's really important for me.

Once you create this thing between duty and reading, it's over. Reading's over.

I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend!

We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

I'm a big eater.

Are you eating it? Or is it eating you?