Quotes About Consumption

Supply always comes on the heels of demand.

Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched.

We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they're called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.

There is evidence that people do want to watch shows back to back - that's why DVR use is so high. When you're able to DVR something, people will watch more than one episode.

Luxury hasn't been democratised; it's been globalised.

The mainstream is not the mainstream anymore. We're a lot more niched in our media.

The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.

I worry a lot about people using games just for marketing, to get people to buy more stuff, which I think would be the worst possible use.

So you eat them. And don't try chucking them away. I'll know. I empty the bins.

what is money for, if not to get what you want?

so don't tell me how love will rescue me, I was carnivorous about love, I ate love to the ankles, my thighs are gnawed with love still and yet I cannot have loved, since living was all I could do and for that, I was caged in bone spur endlessly

By 2000, Americans had built almost twice as much retail space per citizen as any other country in the world: over nineteen square feet per person. Most of it was in malls.

Half the world is redoing its kitchens, the other half is starving.

We] saw products as garbage even when they sat gleaming on store shelves, yet unbought. We didn't say, What kind of casserole will that make? We said, What kind of garbage will that make?

It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

Consume or die. That's the mandate of the culture. And it all ends up in the dump. We make stupendous amounts of garbage, then we react to it, not only technologically but in our hearts and minds. We let it shape us. We let it control our thinking. Garbage comes first, then we build a system to deal with it.

occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

Whiz Co was a firm with an inside track to the future. The Future of Waste.

I liked to watch Orest eat. He inhaled food according to aerodynamic principles.

Eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

She took a bite of cereal and forgot to taste it. She lost the taste somewhere between the time she put the food in her mouth and the regretful second she swallowed it.

business that makes and sells durable goods faces a problem: As soon as everyone who wants the product has it, then there is no need for more.