Quotes About Indulgence

oil paints...the look of licked lips.

Excuse this digression. At my age you indulge in these apocalyptic visions. You say, The end of the world is at hand. You lie to yourself - I'm glad I won't be around to see it - when in fact you'd like nothing better, as long as you can watch it through the little secret window, as long as you won't be involved. But why bother about the end of the world? It's the end of the world every day, for someone. Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.

Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.

Nothing helps gluttony along so well as eating food you don't have to pay for yourself

Young girls have such sweet tooths. Or is that sweet teeth?

On these occasions I read quickly, voraciously, almost skimming, trying to get as much into my head as possible before the next long starvation. If it were eating it would be the gluttony of the famished; if it were sex it would be a swift furtive stand-up in an alley somewhere.

I admit I relish it, this lick of dissipation.

In queste occasioni leggo velocemente, con voracità, saltando qualche parola e cercando di riempirmi la testa il più possibile prima di un nuovo, lungo periodo di astinenza. Se fossero un genere commestibile queste letture smorzerebbero l'ingordigia dell'affamato, se fossero sesso equivarrebbero a un veloce amplesso furtivo, in qualche vicolo.

But nothing I ever gave was good for you; it was like white bread to goldfish. They cram and cram, and it kills them, and they drift in the pool, belly-up, making stunned faces and playing on our guilt as if their own toxic gluttony was not their fault.

Give me a good horse to ride and some good licker to drink and a good girl to court and a bad girl to have fun with and anybody can have their own Europe.... What do we care about missing the tour?

What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.

No One Diets on Thanksgiving.

Americans are gluttons. We shop with forklifts. We have a holiday where we stuff food into other food. Our strippers wrestle in Jell-O, where other countries have to use mud.

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

Twas the night before Thanksgiving. All the food's in the oven. And I'm in the bedroom performin' self lovin'.

I don't really like thanksgiving food, i'm not worried about overeating.

I like to stuff myself at Thanksgiving, not turkeys.

Thanksgiving, you know - Thanksgiving - it's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is we overeat.

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

It's changed throughout the years, but at one time I was a really big bubble gum ice cream fan. I'd spit the bubble gum pieces in a cup and then collect them.

One time, Niall sat on the floor for hours trying to find a way of putting his M&M's in alphabetical order.