Quotes About Consumption

He ate what was set before him

This thing is going down so good there's not enough O's in smooth.

I finished my New Amsterdam Black & Tan. I wanted another one, but I was used to that. I always wanted another one.

Susan always claimed that when I ate a sub I looked like I'd fought with it.

Pluck my heart From my flesh And eat it.....

Eat my heart Chew it hard Swallow my soul, too

We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great. That is the unconsolable heartburn, the lifelong disquietude of having been made in the image of God.

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.

For example, obesity costs the average person an extra $1,429 per year in increased health care costs. But since we're not required to set aside money for every burger we consume (to cover the real financial cost of the burger), the long-term costs of carrying extra weight remain invisible.

Consumption can never satisfy because the logic of the consumable object demands the creation of new insatiable needs.

A good indicator of a healthy economy is when people buy completely useless things.

Tapi waktu sungguh serakah, kadang-kadang ia mencuri semua detail tanpa menyisakan apapun.

our Lord satisfied the stomach before satisfying the eye, but the imagination acts in the reverse fashion

Put the grease patty directly on the top bars, off center, and let the bees consume it. While doing so, they'll pick up minute amounts of the grease, foiling further mite infestations.

Everyone had to eat, but eating people wasn't polite.

The quickest way to a woman's crotch is through her gullet. Can I make you a cake? Big Al to Pierce, then Rachel.

The invisible hand never picks up the check.

My body worked so well that eventually all things everywhere were swallowed and digested by me. I grew so large that I ate the world, and all the blood in the world is mine. What am I? You know, even though you are like everything else, and see me from the inside. I am the market.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Swiss citizens in general used about 5,000 watts. This was compared to 6,000 in the rest of western Europe. Chinese citizens about 1,500. 1,000 in India. 12,000 in the United States. His country, the great whale in this as in everything, slurping down the world.

Jevons Paradox proposes that increases in efficiency in the use of a resource lead to an overall increase in the use of that resource, not a decrease.

Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.

Up to a point go for quantity rather than quality. Most people would rather have two glasses of ordinary decent port than one of a rare vintage.