Quotes About Excess

Can you understand what the rats are saying?" "No. But I can kill them." "Why?" "Because they are never satisfied. They are like bad politicians and imperialists and rich people." "How?" "They eat up property. They eat up everything in sight. And one day when they are very hungry they will eat us up.

Avarice, ambition, lust, etc., are nothing but species of madness.

Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.

My companion at the press drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o'clock, and another when he had done his day's work.

where there is more Sail than Ballast.

Buy what thou has no need of and ere long thou shall sell thy necessaries.

Das war alles ein wenig viel für mich heute: Anstatt zu schlafen, eine Feuerleiter hinaufzuklettern, zu saufen, was das Zeug hält, mal eben ein bisschen zu vögeln und nebenbei erwachsen zu werden. Das reicht für eine Nacht. Da würde jeder kotzen, glaube ich.

The whole world, it's a problem that there's too much stuff being produced. We don't have time to reflect on the important things in life.

I drink seven Coca-Colas a day. Regular Coke, which is really bad for me.

Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab.

Real short- and long-term rates were relatively high in the late-1990s, so financial excess can also arise without a low-rate environment.

You ever get that feeling that you just have too many hits?

Hollywood is a world all its own.

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

If I had my way, I would have sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll at least 4-6 hours a day. So long as there are going to be things in the way of that, we're going to have a revolution.

We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.

Doing a movie is like eating five hundred canapes at a cocktail party - you're never really full. You don't feel as though you've eaten a meal, and yet you can't eat any more.

But in this case people have hundreds and hundreds of animals, they have a menagerie. You can't possibly love that many animals. So, it's more about the ego and the pride of having all of these things sort of like a car collection or a gun collection.

A single and same voice for the whole thousand-voiced multiple, a single and same Ocean for all the drops, a single clamour of Being for all beings: on condition that each being, each drop and each voice has reached the state of excess -- in other words, the difference which displaces and disguises them and, in turning upon its mobile cusp, causes them to return.

A single and the same voice for the whole thousand-voiced multiple, a single and the same ocean for all the drops, a single clamor of being for all beings: on condition that each being, each drop, and each voice has reached the state of excess - in other words, the difference which displaces and disguises them and, in turning upon its mobile cusp, causes them to return.

Money is wasted on the rich.

We are all overdressed in our little flashy frocks, our slasher heels, and we all eat small plates of food bites that are as decorative and unsubstantial as we are.

too much, because it feels so good

Para Amy, o amor era como drogas, álcool e pornografia: não havia limite. Cada exposiçao precisava ser mais intensa que a última para alcançar o mesmo resultado.