Quotes About Excess

glutted and sugar-pissed

I was boozing too much, but never to the point of drunkenness, I reasoned with myself. I needed just a nip. I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication—a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.

el amor era como las drogas o el alcohol o el porno: no había techo. Cada dosis debía ser más intensa que la anterior para obtener el mismo resultado.

Je suis un peu trop, et il n'est pas tout à fait assez. Je suis un buisson d'épines, hérissée par l'excès d'attention de mes parents, et il est transpercé d'un million de petits coups de poignards paternels. Mes épines logent parfaitement dans ses cicatrices.

Rambling speeches and bad writing litter our lives. If talk is cheap, it's because the supply usually exceeds the demand.

En demasía lo bueno se hace malo, la píldora veneno y vicio la caricia; sabes de todo un poco y vas al cine, sabes de todo mucho y te suicidas. Mucha vida (cien años) es la muerte —se hace malo lo bueno en demasía—. La soledad, es ese gran espejo donde acabas por verte monstruoso; el silencio es la tuerca en el oído que se te va ajustando al agujero, demasiado silencio es igual que una bomba y demasiado amor es igual que un entierro.

Zuviel kann man wohl drinken, Doch trinkt man nie genug.

I've had my allotment of liquor — and probably twenty other people's

They make a religion of being greedy.

The boom for luxury goods is unending. There are people who never have to worry about whether they can afford something they like. In one part of the world or another there will always be someone with money to spend on luxury.

I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

Many find ourselves in this strange consumerist entertainment bubble where celebrities have become the golden cows of our time that we love to worship and destroy.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Greed is the worst thing.

If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.

I once bought a 45 ice cream. I had to do it. They had a 100-year-old vinegar drizzled across the top. And that was worth it.

I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.