Quotes About Excess

An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.

Celebrity is this thing that's unattainable. This unattainable lifestyle. This unattainable social status. But there's nothing more commonplace than dying from hot sauce.

We use fashion for status and to beautify and there's nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes completely unbalanced, then you're living a decadent life. And when that happens on a global scale, you're living in a decadent world.

Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park. But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul.

The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.

It is possible to have too much of a good thing.

If you own a rug you own too much.

Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

For me, Vegas is a vacation from being overinhibited, in the highly overinhabited yet uninhabitable city of complete uninhibition.

Smoked like it was fuel and he was going to get every last inch to the gallon.

we're seeing more beauty in one day than our ancestors did in a lifetime. And the result is that beauty is slowly ruining our lives.

I ate 18 spam fritters in one sitting at Farnham Common junior school in some sort of popularity contest.

Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym.

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.

One of my greatest extravagances is smelly candles. I'm embarrassed to say, but I spend a disproportionate amount of money on candles. It adds up.

They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.

If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink.

Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.