Quotes About Excess

I threw away the whole of my working history, my photograph albums, diaries and stage clothes. Shoving big, ugly discs on walls is a bit like rubbing people's faces in it, saying 'I am considerably richer than you.' It is completely unnecessary.

I'm the type of guy where, if I see, like, 20 songs, I don't even wanna listen to one of 'em 'cause it's too much.

That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck?

If I was a billionaire, I'd have a warehouse full of Ferrari and Lamborghini, but I'm not.

Any form of over-indulgence creates within the body warning signs of destruction.

She was drunk, as everyone was, most of the time.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

You can satiate a Man's hunger but never his greed!

The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered bu our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.

The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered by our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.

To consume is to be consumed by inauthenticity,

For consumer society poverty is whatever cannot be consumed.

Nothing exceeds like excess.

I tried gambling and it never paid off, women make you suffer, and greed has no end...

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.

Incredible the mass labor of the fat ugly masturbators of the 82nd AIRBORNE DIVISION! Wow have I seen gallons and gallons of sperm spilled, wasted, in the nights of North Carolina, and tons and tons of sheets stained, yellowed by the juice of these guys of the 82nd! Kilos and kilos! Piles and piles! Truckloads and truckloads of sheets full of vicious and doubtful traces and circles.

Eating sugar in excess of what can be immediately burned causes it to be stored in the liver in the form of glucose (glycogen). Since the liver's capacity is limited, a daily intake of refined sugar soon causes the liver to exceed its ability to store sugar, and the excess glycogen is returned to the blood in the form of fatty acids. These are taken to every part of the body and stored as fat in the most inactive areas: the belly, the buttocks, the breasts, and the thighs.

Money is there to put food on the table and make sure your family is cared for. Anything beyond that can be argued as extraneous.

You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.

I drank too much, only champagne.

I don't believe in Chap Stick, I'm going to say that right now. Carmex can sometimes feel like too much of an attack. It's just too much sometimes.

Sometimes I feel like a 16-year-old who's got a blank check.