Quotes About Excess

You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing.

I may eat nine bowls of dog food, because eight isn't enough.

L'amore, evidentemente, è antidemocratico come il denaro: si accumula attorno a persone che ne hanno già fin troppo: i sani di mente, i sani nel corpo, gli amabili

and perhaps my worst habit is overloving and like most who live to excess i will be broken in two by my unwillingness to control my feelings

If something is worth doing - it's worth overdoing.

He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table, a sea of them on her dining table. Jesus Christ, Dane, you need treatment.

Let's go have lotsa drunk sex before it hits. 'Kay. Drunk sex for everybody!

When one sins, one should sin magnificently.

Shopping for shoes has nothing to do with need, and everything to do with lust. Do you know how many pairs I own? No. Neither do I!

Every visual reflects the same statement: The hedonistic, euphoric, high-gloss 1980s are over. It took five minutes to killdoze an entire decade.

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.

A woman eats to feed her pussy. Meaning: Anything we do to excess is in compensation for not getting a minimum amount of sexual gratification.

A lot of young people try to impress the world and buy too many things, the doorman said.

My mom would spy by satellite, turning down the air conditioning, colder and colder, with a tapping keystroke via her wireless connection, chilling that house, that one room, meat locker cold, ski-slope cold, spending a king's ransom on Freon and electric power, trying to make some doomed ten bucks' worth of pretty pink flowers last one more day.

The deal with dating conceited men like him was that she'd hoped some of his excess self-esteem would rub off. Women always secretly hoped this: that dating a narcissist would give them confidence by osmosis. It never worked.

Hoard food and it rots. Hoard money and you rot. Hoard power and the government rots.

Towles burn. Bathroom inferno! Chanel No. 5, it burns. Oil paintings of racehorses and dead pheasants burn. The reproduction Oriental carpets burn. Evie's bad dried flower arrangements, they're these little tabletop infernos. Too cute! Evie's Katty Kathy doll, it melts, then it burns. Evie's collection of big carnival stuffed animals—Cootie, Poochie, Pam-Pam, Mr. Bunnits, Choochie, Poo Poo and Ringer—it's fun-fur holocaust. Too sweet. Too precious.

Söylemeye çal??t???m ÅŸey ÅŸu: Buras? Amerika. Otuz bir çekmekle baÅŸlars?n?z, grup sekse kadar ilerlersiniz. Önce biraz ot içersiniz, sonra eroine terfi edersiniz. Kültürümüz böyle; daha büyük, daha iyi, daha güçlü, daha h?zl?. Anahtar kelime: ilerleme.

Uno empieza con las pajas y llega a las orgías. Uno fuma un poco de hierba y acaba metiéndose caballo. Es esta cultura nuestra de lo más grande, lo más fuerte, lo más rápido y lo mejor. La palabra clave es progresar. En América, si tu adicción no se renueva y mejora constantemente, eres un perdedor.

trichloroethane [...] All my extensive testing has shown this to be the best treatment for a dangerous excess of human knowledge

The crap and the trash of the world. Post-consumer human butt wipe that no one would ever go to the trouble to recycle.

When you go out with a drunk, you'll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you're drinking, drinking is okay.

Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just to buy the things they really don't need.

Still—leave it to an American to take something too far.