Quotes About Excess

Pudding is not a human right.

It's overkill when you put too much fragrance on. It's the worst. Not sexy, and it makes me want to puke. I'm nauseous. Know what I mean? Your game's off.

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.

The grim truth is that the rich are able to live as they do only because others are poor: there is neither the physical nor ecological space for everyone to pursue private luxury.

Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?

Only the fat-cat corporations can really afford to put on two mega-ready-to-wear shows a year, or four if you add two haute couture shows, or six if you count men's wear. Resort and prefall push the number up to eight. A couple of promotional shows in Asia, Brazil, Dubai or Moscow can bring the count to 10.

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

I live in a free country. And I have so much more than I need.

People like a look into the lifestyle of someone who has a lot of freedom.

When I was at my biggest I was having a daily fry up, fish and chips once per week, takeaway a couple more times and drinking beer nearly every day.

By God!' Christopher exclaimed. 'I loathe your whole beastly buttered-toast, mutton-chopped, carpet-slippered, rum-negused comfort as much as I loathe your beastly Riviera-palaced, chauffeured, hydraulic-lifted, hot-house aired beastliness of fornication.…

It was astonishing that Mark, who was a millionaire at least, and probably a good deal more, should live in such a dingy apartment – it had for its chief decoration the hoofs of several deceased race-winners, mounted as inkstands, as pen-racks, as paper-weights – and afford himself only such a lugubrious breakfast of fat slabs of ham over which bled pallid eggs.…

He's been spoiled 'til salt won't save him.

Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.

the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence.

Kad se pretjerano koristi, ?ak se i odanost na kraju istroši.

I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world's most famous beaches.

E não reside nisso nem a mentira nem a pacificação da dor, é um excedente de forças, concedido pela graça, num momento em que a dor esgotou e visivelmente a totalidade das minhas forças e até ao fundo do meu ser que ainda escorcha. Qual é então este escedente?

Hän ahmaisee tähteet omalta ruokapöydältään. Sen vuoksi hän on hetken ajan muita kylläisempi, mutta samalla hän myös unohtaa kuinka pöydän ääressä syödään, ja sen vuoksi tähteitä ei enää kuulukaan.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

I used to throw stuff out of the window and trash hotel rooms - and superglue all the drawers shut and superglue the toilet seat down and superglue the phone to the nightstand - and all kinds of stuff. I had a chain saw for a while. I didn't really use it but once or twice.

Technology has grown so much that there's a whole idea of gluttony. Sometimes you get carried away because you can have a camera go through the window, but do I need a camera go through the window? Those choices are up to the director.

Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.