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Quotes About Excess

I do like large entrances, but this was a little too large.
~ Peter Bergman
We all think we're liberated when we have more of everything, don't we? That's what the media tell us.
~ Pauline Collins
I've done more travel than I need to in my lifetime.
~ Irene Rosenfeld
I have enough make-up to last me five lifetimes.
~ Dia Mirza
I've made more money than I could spend in five lifetimes.
~ Dennis Washington
I have Louis Vuitton everything. I'm obsessed.
~ Jeffree Star
Mars Volta was always about embracing what 'too much' was and the excess of it. I never thought there would be an audience for it.
~ Cedric Bixler-Zavala
profusion of fat purple and red cushions.
~ Diane Setterfield
Too much engenders too much.
~ Don DeLillo
Have you ever seen so many people, she whispered, gathered in one place in order to be rich, powerful and disgusting together?
~ Don DeLillo
the impact of competitive forces that drive the introduction of extra features, often to excess: the cause of the disease dubbed "featuritis," whose major symptom is "creeping featurism.
~ Donald A. Norman
No stinting here, not on the after-breakfast champagne.
~ Donna Leon
And how did they drive people mad? They turned up the volume of the inner monologue, magnified qualities already present to great excess, made people so much themselves that they couldn't stand it.
~ Donna Tartt
Another old friend who came to pay his respects [to the recently elected Urban VIII] and collect his reward was Buonarroti, who, like Strozzi, judged the new court guilty of excess. "Music always and always poetry / music and poetry morning and night / music in every time and season." "I would rather hear frogs sing.
~ Unknown
Ela é gorda, bela, voraz, gulosa, indecisa e lambuzona.
~ Unknown
all of the garbage associated with that
~ Jack Campbell
She had too much of everything, and so she longed to have less; less, she was sure, would bring her happiness. To me it was a laugh and a relief to observe the unhappiness that too much can bring; I had been so used to observing the reults of too little.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
I'm not into caps with lots of diamonds on them, like KP.
~ James Anderson
Si tuviera que enumerar todas las virtudes del alcohol, no acabaría nunca.
~ Luis Bunuel
There is evil in excess; there is evil in scant measure.
~ Lyman Abbott
We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.
~ Unknown
A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much.
~ Lynn Austin
The second toxic myth is that more is better. More of anything is better than what we have. It's the logical response if you fear there's not enough, but more is better drives a competitive culture of accumulation, acquisition, and greed that only heightens fears and quickens the pace of the race.
~ Unknown