Quotes About Excess

Drinking makes people go out of control.

I lose all control after two drinks of anything.

We are drowning in information.

I like to get drunk, I'm a power drinker.

Everybody is entertained to death.

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace

Any industrial product that comes in per capita quanta beyond a given intensity exercises a radical monopoly over the satisfaction of a need.

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.

The meal will consist of macaroni di zitu, red mullet, hare in a sour sauce, boar with chocolate, turkey stuffed with ricotta, fish cooked in wine, roast suckling pig, sweet rice, conserve of scorzonera, ice-cream, sweetmeats, almond biscuits, water ices and wines from Casa Ucrìa with the strong pungent flavour of the grapes from Torre Scannatura.

You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.

The most significant events, Bishop seems to argue, are destined to remain outside the scope of description. It is perhaps their very status as excessive or fugitive that makes them, in the end, significant. A poet who believes such things will not arrive uncomplicatedly at self-description.

loading a plate with steak and bread and a slab of meatloaf as thick as a Diana Gabaldon novel

Luxury is a motivational narcotic.

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 1960s bundled up nicely to convince consumers that the sort of morally repugnant behavior exhibited by its characters - with one-night-stands and excessive consumption of Cutty Sark and Lucky Strikes - is glamorous and 'vintage.'

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

Too much virtue can be criminal.

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.

If less was more, she had a great deal.

For greed all nature is too little.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.