Quotes About Consumption

It's like God left his lunch in the microwave and you get to finish it.

SOCIETY IS A CARNIVOROUS FLOWER

Television remains the most effective thief of time.

Are you a consumer or producer?

Something shines out, a truth so self-evident that the words dictate themselves. We're cashing in a billion years of planetary savings bonds and blowing it on assorted bling.

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.

This book is dedicated to: Hudson's Bay Scotch Kent Cigarettes and Yuban Coffee without which it might never have been written.

Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here's the desire to put it inside us, and then the question behind every question: What happens next?

I didn't want to see it this way, everything eating everything in the end.

I swallow your heart and it crawls right out of my mouth.

More people in our world, in other words, have mobile phones than toothbrushes (which perhaps speaks as much about dental hygiene as 'pervasive computing').

wild fruits are not nearly as rewarding as those domesticated fruits. The edible pulp of a forest fruit is often physically hard, and it may be protected by a skin, coat, or hairs that have to be removed. Most fruits have to be chewed for a long time before the pulp can be fully detached from the pieces of skin or seeds, and before the solid pieces are mashed enough to give up their valuable nutrients.

fish from the cache became "high"—in other words, smelly because they were partially rotten. Most people liked the strong taste. Jenness saw "a man take a bone from rotten caribou-meat cached more than a year before, crack it open and eat the marrow with evident relish although it swarmed with maggots.

The absolute number of workers in agriculture continued to rise until the twentieth century, but agriculture's share of the national workforce fell. By 1900 it had declined to 40 percent, from a majority in 1860. Those workers, however, still produced more than the country could consume.11

the shelves on shelves of unread or half-read or read-and-forgotten books that had always been supposed to make such a difference and never had; the loathsome, gloating maw of the television set;

the kind of kiss that said, I want to consume every inch of you and hear you scream my name.

We have become food consumers, not food producers or makers. We have outsourced our cooking to corporations.

The average American consumes ten pounds of chemical additives a year.

the average American consumes 22 to 30 teaspoons of sugar every single day.

In 1800, the average person consumed 5 pounds per year;7 now we average 152 pounds a year.

There's more food in one bottle of beer, me lad, than twenty sandwiches.

How long could we allow this beast To gorge and guzzle, feed and feast On everything he wanted to? Great Scott! It simply wouldn't do! However long this pig might live, We're positive he'd never give Even the smallest bit of fun Or happiness to anyone.

Said New York Post columnist William V. Shannon: "There is a growing tendency on the part of Americans to 'consume' political figures in much the same sense we consume entertainment personalities on television and in the movies.

Captain, that's not your style; you don't want to make money, you simply want to have money—in order to spend it.