Consumption Quotes

• Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • High
  • Chinese
  • Consumption

• In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Wealth
  • Income
  • Policymakers

• Information, if viewed from the point of view of food, is never a production issue. ... It's a consumption issue, and we have to start thinking about how we create diets [and] exercise.

  

  J.P. Rangaswami
  • Thinking
  • Food
  • Exercise

• The account of the face treatment that Catherine had undergone at the hands of a quack was taken from a description given to Elizabeth by Katherine Mansfield, her New Zealand cousin, of her own experience in Paris when she was searching for a cure for consumption. This may have been too tragic a source. If Elizabeth needed copy she had, if Frere is to be believed, her own experience to draw on.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Experience
  • Treatment
  • Tragic

• The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • People
  • Need
  • Consumption

• The back of Donald Trump's head is fantastic and his eyebrows are amazing. His overbite and his series of chins and the color of him and the texture. It's amazing! He's like an artifact. It's an amazing head to draw and I have to think it's got to be part of his success. It's ready-made for public consumption.

  

  Barry Blitt
  • Success
  • Texture
  • Artifacts

• Gas consumption is growing everywhere.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • Growing
  • Gas
  • Consumption

• We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Service
  • Caring
  • Models

• Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Poetry
  • Disease
  • Flattering

• I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Accounts
  • Absurd
  • Chickens

• The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.

  

  Ahmed Zaki Yamani
  • Prices
  • Comes Down
  • Goes Up

• I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Business
  • Disease
  • Borrowing

• I think the consumption of music is at an all-time high. But I think the ways that record companies are trying to monetize it is just all over the place. At the end of the day, music is in the clouds. Before, you could hold it, look at it, turn it around. Now, it's just in the air.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Time
  • Great
  • American

• My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Songs
  • Consumption
  • Discard

• There has been a consumption boom and this has to be followed by an investment boom. 2004 was also the first time since 1971 when the economic growth rate was higher than that of inflation.

  

  Christopher Hart
  • Investment
  • Consumption
  • Boom

• Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.

  

  Eugenio Montale
  • Consciousness
  • Production
  • Succeeded

• In China, because China is gaining wealth, rice consumption is way down. Rice is a poor person's food, and they're eating less of it. To wait in line at a fast food chain is cool. And they haven't historically had weight problems. So they don't have this culture of, "I need to lose weight."

  

  Neal Barnard
  • Culture
  • Food
  • Cool

• Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• “Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting”

  

  Andrea Illy
  • Experience
  • Consumption
  • Espresso

• The effort to eliminate synthetic pesticides because of unsubstantiated fears about residues in food will make fruits and vegetables more expensive, decrease consumption, and thus increase cancer rates. The levels of synthetic pesticide residues are trivial in comparison to natural chemicals, and thus their potential for cancer causation is extremely low.

  

  Bruce Ames
  • Food
  • Synthetic pesticides
  • Cancer rates

• The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Vegetables
  • Consumption
  • Himsa

• As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Possible
  • Consumption
  • Craves

• You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

  

  Noam Chomsky
  • Control
  • Force
  • Consumption

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