Quotes About Consumption

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

The goal of literary work (of literature as work) is to make the reader no longer a consumer but a producer of the text.

He had eaten Kate's map so

His stomach turned inside out, like a glove, and he vomited. It wasn't disagreeable at all. Almost like a liberation, in fact. A kind of suicide, in a way. These particles of matter that showered from his mouth, after he had thought them consumed and digested, did not disgust him. No, he was completely indifferent to them; and to everything else, for that matter. It was only when he vomited that he could be indifferent even to life itself.

Charley's consumption and indigestion had only become more lacerating; his eye sockets were as deep and dark as fistholes in the snow, his gums were strangely purple, he wore extravagant gold rings on every finger and a clove of garlic around his neck according to the guidance of a gypsy named Madame Africa. Bob was skinny, sallow, peevish, his complexion spoiled with so many pimples that some correspondents thought it was measles.

The price of fuel may have tipped the balance.

Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.

You are what you eat. You are a human body comprised of organs, blood and guts, and other shit. The food you put into your body works its way through your organs and bloodstream and is actually part of who you are. So every time you put crap in your body, you are crap.

Every time you consume factory-farmed chicken, beef, veal, pork, eggs, or dairy, you are eating antibiotics, pesticides, steroids, and hormones.

With a lot of boiling, you could eat them.

Why do I long to be devoured and to forget in life rather than in death? What is the difference?

J'aurais bien voulu qu'ils fussent ailleurs mes pieds pour le moment, parce que de l'autre côté de la devanture, nous étions observés par les gens en file que nous venions de quitter dans la rue. Ils attendaient que nous eussions fini, nous, de bouffer, pour venir s'attabler à leur tour. C'est même à cet effet et pour les tenir en appétit que nous nous trouvions nous si bien éclairés et mis en valeur, à titre de publicité vivante.

Ma i libri [...] pesano tanto: eppure, chi se ne ciba e se li mette in corpo, vive tra le nuvole.

I lived on anger, but it's the kind of fuel that uses you up even when it's pushing you forward.

Come on, Pandora, open your belly, and digest me; This thing is amusing, but digest me.

Probably the worst thing that has happened to our understanding of reality has been the acceptance of ourselves as consumers.

Today we live in a society that seems to be less and less concerned with reality. We drink instant coffee and reconstituted orange juice. We buy our vegetables on cardboard trays covered with plastic. But perhaps the most dehumanizing thing of all is that we have allowed the media to call us consumers--ugly. No! I don't want to be a consumer. Anger consumes. Forest fires consume. Cancer consumes.

A typical five-year-old consumes about 60 percent more ketchup than a typical forty-year-old, and the company realized that it needed to put ketchup in a bottle that a toddler could control.

Second, the consumption gap between men and women, so pronounced a generation ago, has narrowed considerably—particularly among white women. (The same trends aren't nearly as marked among Asians, Hispanics, or African Americans.) "I think it's an empowerment issue," Fromme argues:

McMahon made use of Veblen's conception of emulation in consumption, whereas Kyrk adopted Mitchell's view that notions of rationality derived from business calculation of profit cannot be applied to households controlled by other standards (1923, p. 144).

Our GDP growth rates are creating - our high GDP growth rates, the success of our economy means we're creating lots of disposable income.

Happy people produce. Bored people consume.

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.

I want teachers to teach, and I want Oreos to be eaten.