Quotes About Consumption

A hundred years ago, this City[...]'s energy production, its food and fuel, came from all over the world, often traveling thousands of miles. People used energy just to ship more energy to the places that needed it. When you're high on fossil fuel fumes, I guess almost anything can make sense.

But what would they have said to their Liaison? It's like this, Meg. We didn't like that Asia Crane, so we ate her.

She came to realize that despite taking a human form, the Others' understanding of human anatomy was mostly limited to what parts of that anatomy they liked to eat.

Sappho begins with a sweet apple and ends in infinite hunger.

los celos pueden comerse un corazón hasta el centro

She dropped it in her lap, picked up a cup and proceeded to consume the entire contents of a jug of wine.

And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one of us will shout, "My need is more desperate!" and I will eat you slowly with kisses even though the killer in you has gotten out.

I burn the way money burns.

I ate you up. All my need took you down like a meal.

I want to bite, I want to chew, I want to eat you up.

we must all eat sacrifices. We must all eat beautiful women.

I burn like money burns.

Everything and everyone was so hungry. The monster. The Barrow folk, buying everything up when danger lurked. The City people, clutching at pretty little enchanted things. Substituting magic for people. The shining people's ancestors, when the plague threatened, ignoring the warnings of the wizards, assuring themselves magic would keep them safe as they themselves brought death upon the entire island.

La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances.

High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?

America is a country where half the money is spent buying food, and the other half is spent trying to lose weight.

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

News may not be very profitable anymore, but it sure is popular.

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Netflix and Amazon know when you stop and start a program, whether you wanted the whole thing, all of that.

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

Children go from being a kind of cultural protectorate to the Junior Auxiliary of the tube-watching nation at large, and programs are designed for them on the same principle as they're designed for grown-ups: as a way to sell eyeballs to advertisers.

I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that.

Our big problem is that high-calorie, special-occasion foods like cakes, fried foods, etc. have become so cheap and easy that we eat them every day. Make them special again by cooking them yourself. You won't do it every day, I promise.