Consuming Quotes
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Using clouds is a radical way of consuming IT. There are emotional barriers to giving up some level of control over the servers that you are running [for the companies].
Werner Vogels
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Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.
Scott Westerfeld
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Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.
Vine Deloria, Jr.
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You don't drive an economy by consuming - the consumer is not the engine, the consumer is the caboose.
Peter Schiff
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Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.
William Congreve
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A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.
Sigmund Freud
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Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.
William Franklin Beedle Jr.
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I know that some people feel that cooking is time consuming, but cooking is an activity that you can do for yourself and you'll be in good condition to do all the other things that you want to do in your life for a very long time.
William Katt
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The message would be that the purpose of life is not to eat and drink, watch television and so on. Consuming is not the aim of life. Earning as much money as one can is not the real purpose of life. There is a superior entity, a divinity, le divin as we say in French that is worth thinking about, as are our feelings of wholeness, respect and love, if we can. A society in which these feelings are widespread would be more reasonable than the society the West presently lives in.
Bernard d'Espagnat
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I always get everyone prepared so there aren't so many arguments on set. I have a policy that the first thing I do in the morning is go over to the trailers and discuss exactly what we're shooting that day. It's time-consuming but it reduces the chances of 'misunderstandings' on set.
Tony Scott
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In a participatory culture, none of us is fully literate unless we're creating, not just consuming.
Dan Gillmor
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The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming.
Jonathan Nolan
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People find life entirely too time-consuming.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student-to each student-as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total.
Nel Noddings
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You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.
Suzy Amis
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Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.
Menander
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Mexican food is my absolute, #1 favorite food. But all the cutting and dicing is very time-consuming. I do like to cook a few times a week, but it's not always that intricate with the shells and the cheese, etcetera.
Wendy Williams