Quotes About Excess

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain.

We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens.

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.

Sugar is like a drug. If I have one bite, I need to eat it all. I can eat an entire panettone in one sitting.

I realised I owned eight pink suits, which I did not need.

Drew is a shopaholic. He must have 400 suits and 180 pairs of shoes. I have three pairs of jeans, and that's it. I shop in his closet and take anything I want.

I bought three cars in one day. For a high six-figure sum, I got a Lamborghini, a Hummer, and a Cadillac Oldtimer.

To sum up my idea of on-ice costume fashion sense, it's probably that too much is never enough.

I had a full-time driver, or I would take my Bentley. I'd have big houses in the Hamptons for the summer, taking seaplanes or helicopters out. I did a lot of flying privately to Miami. A lot of shopping.

When you go to awards shows these days, you can walk through a room and they give you everything for free: sunglasses, guitars, stuff for the wife.

I'd love to drive a Bugatti - something totally ridiculous but super fast.

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous.

The wise man through an excess of wisdom is made a fool.

This love of beauty is Taste. Others have the same love in such excess, that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

Even these feasts have their surfeit. Our delight in reason degenerates into idolatry of the herald.

Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

Too much of anything isn't good for anyone.

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

So bring on your clubs and parties, your acrobats and magicians, your daredevils, jet cars, motorcycle helicopters, your sex and heroin, more of everything to do with automatic reflex. If the drama is bad, if the film says nothing, if the play is hollow, sting me with the theremin, loudly. I'll think I'm responding to the play, when it's only a tactile reaction to vibration. But I don't care. I just like solid entertainment.

Too much of anything isn't good for anyone.

La dignité de la vérité se perd dans l'excès de ses protestations

Christ, you could massacre half a Hindu village and still look like Peter Rabbit. What are you stuffed with?" "Chocolate bars. And I keep six kinds of ice-cream in my icebox, when I can afford it.

Yossarian gorged himself in the mess hall until he thought he would explode and then sagged back in a contented stupor, his mouth filmy with a succulent residue.