Quotes with consumed

  • The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie - it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.
  • Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

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  • Denis Waitley Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Arsenio Hall I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
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  • Siddha Nagarjuna An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
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  • Antisthenes As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
    Antisthenes
    Greek philosopher (445 - 365)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Ben Jonson He hath consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe, about which he hath seen Tartars and Turks, Romans and Carthaginians, fight in his imagination.
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    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Ann Patchett I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Roland Barthes I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Umberto Eco I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Ayatollah Khomeini If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.
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  • Jean François Lyotard Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.
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  • Bo Bennett Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Rebecca West Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Anne Rice Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Auguste Rodin The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • Mary McCarthy The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Frank Zappa The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie - it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Riley Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: ''It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... ''
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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