Quotes About Consumption

But it remains the case that, on the level of consumption, the preeminence of the twentieth century was indisputable: nothing, in any other civilization, in any other epoch, could compare itself to the mobile perfection of a contemporary shopping center functioning at full tilt. I had thus consumed, with joy, shoes most notably; then, gradually, I had grown weary, and I had understood that my life, without this daily input of basic, renewable pleasures, was going to stop being simple.

Reklamc?l?k, servet yapman?n en zarif ve en h?zl? yollar?ndan biri galiba. Sat?lacak ürünü, mutluluÄŸun, güzelliÄŸin, gençliÄŸin, erotizmin, tatilin girdiÄŸi cennetsi bir yaÅŸamla bütünleyerek kitleleri kendine çekmek... BaÅŸtan ç?karmak!- O, Lucie ya da Gölgesiz Kad?n

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

And let's be clear: It's not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren't healthy. It's also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy.

Each man needed about 2 lbs of flour a day to make chapattis. Over the course of ten days, that meant 500 men would consume around 10 tons. In

People consume music in a very different way. It doesn't seem to be as all-important as it used to be for us. Kids have got computer games and a million other things to keep themselves entertained. We had music and our imaginations, and that was it.

Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.

Es una desgracia esto de tener que servirse uno de las cosas —pensó Augusto—; tener que usarlas, el use estropea y hasta destruye toda belleza. La función más noble de los objetos es la de ser contemplados. ¡Qué bella es una naranja antes de comida!

Leisure that uses up external resources, however, often requires less attention, and as a consequence it generally provides less memorable rewards.

many leisure activities—especially those involving the passive consumption of mass media—are not designed to make us happy and strong. Their purpose is to make money for someone else.

Los Angeles, it should be understood, is not a mere city. On the contrary, it is, and has been since 1888, a commodity; something to be advertised and sold to the people of the United States like automobiles, cigarettes and mouth wash. Morrow Mayo

Me percaté demasiado tarde de algo que ella ignoraba: aquel poder era una parte viva de su ser... pero me encontraba frío y desolado y ella era para mí como la gloria del sol... me lo bebí todo... sin dejarle nada

I spend my money...I don't know on what.

Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.

There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.

I've always loved clothes. Like any normal woman, I would see a dress, buy it, rip the tags off with my teeth, save the buttons for ten to twelve years in a drawer, and wear it to work.

Unas eats their magic, swallows their spirits: Their big ones are for his morning meal, Their middle ones for his evening meal, Their little ones for his night meal, And the oldest males and females for his fuel Utterances 273·274 Antechamber, East WaU The kingfeeds on thegods

A teaspoonful of semen contains the same amount of protein as the white of one egg. However, the consumption of semen can be much more fun.

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

Cannibalism is a predicament of the animistic hunter or gardener, who must live by consuming animals or plants which are essentially persons themselves" (Graeber & Sahlins, On Kings p16)

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

In an industry experiencing as thorough a state of flux and technological revolution as the media are, the rise and relevance of all manner of small, decentralized participants are undeniable, but the traditional players may yet have the last word.45 The growing popularity of mobile devices, for example, has led not only to a spike in news consumption but also to a flight to quality, as consumers prefer apps and home pages of established news organizations with a reputation for objectivity.46