Quotes About Excess

You can never put too much pork in your mouth as far as I'm concerned.

I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis.

I have a Lamborghini Diablo. I have Mercedes 600, a 500, a 300, a 190. I have a Ferrari Testarossa, a Porsche speedster.

I've got a nice, big house. I've got two nice cars, including a Bentley, and I'm test-driving a Porsche.

Most of us seem to be buried under our own possessions, and it seems to be getting worse.

Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

The easier things are to buy, the more we consume.

But in my college years it got to the point where my friends and I didn't do anything without consuming a massive amount of alcohol before we went anywhere or did anything, and you know that.

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

I think the Baby Boom has enjoyed itself, maybe sometimes a little too much, and we're continuing to enjoy ourselves, maybe a little too much.

Our shelves are groaning with the amount of cookbooks, it's scary.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

It's crazy how many nude lip crayons I own - I probably need to get rid of some.

In England you probably have too many cups with the Champions League as it is now. You have the FA Cup and another cup; what's the point in that? Probably one cup should be more than enough.

Beyond helping people have a richer social life, Uber's also a model of collaborative commerce and efficiently tackling excess capacity.

I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!

The Ferrari is exactly the same in the human context as the peacock's tail is on the peacock.

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

I used to put on spray tan, like, three times a day, and it just looked like there was a terrible accident in my bed at all times... it looked like a crime scene.

The unreasoned boast abounds that the good life is found in accumulation, that "more is better.

Eight floors of the kind of consumer garbage that L.A. is famous for. Need a Ferrari jacket? Sure. You're a race car driver. Vroom vroom. Need silk designer socks that cost more than neurosurgery? We have that too. Come on down to the Beverly Center for something bright and shiny and leave feeling poorer, puzzled, and dead inside.

I believe we're going to be dead a lot longer than we're alive, so anything you like you should do to excess. I believe America lost its soul when they took the big-block V-8 out of Mustangs. I believe Hollywood should stop remaking A Star Is Born.

That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.