The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.
Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.
Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.
They import and they consume reality.
When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.
The thing about relationships is, when you are in the middle of one, they consume your focus.
For that reason the simple test of the slogan 'Consume Less' as a basis for social action on the environment would be to tell it to the blacks in the ghetto. The message will not be very well received for there are many people in this country who consume less than is needed to sustain a decent life.
If we use less, if we consume less, we're going to have more
The growth of the American food industry will always bump up against this troublesome biological fact: Try as we might, each of us can only eat about fifteen hundred pounds of food a year. Unlike many other products - CDs, say, or shoes - there's a natural limit to how much food we each can consume without exploding. What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is somewhere around 1 percent per year - 1 percent being the annual growth rate of American population. The problem is that [the industry] won't tolerate such an anemic rate of growth.
What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.
Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.
Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One's desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the desire to possess, to fill his emptiness. But the problem is insoluble, always. He is compelled to have and to hold, to possess and consume, and nothing else. All he takes, he destroys.
Audio is the only medium you can consume while you're multitasking.
The easier things are to buy, the more we consume.
Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don't, you are working.
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.
Beans, beans, the magic legumes - the more you ingest, the more you consume.
I'm part of the consumer culture. . . I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more. '
The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.
The mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food,--they nourish, but at the same time they consume it.