Metabolizes Quotes

#1. In the U.S. there are 45,000 shopping malls employing 10.7 million people. The average American family of four metabolizes four million pounds of material every year to support their lifestyle. That's 11,000 lbs. a day, 7.5 lbs. a minute.

Stephanie Kaza

#2. The living always think that monsters roar and gnash their teeth. But I've seen that real monsters can be friendly; they can smile, and they can say please and thank you like everyone else. Real monsters can appear to be kind. Sometimes they can be inside us.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#3. When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.

Napoleon Hill

#4. Vimes hated and despised the privileges of rank, but they had this to be said for them: at least they meant that you could hate and despise them in comfort.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Age is a limit we impose on ourselves.

H. B. Warner

#6. I really think the app store is kind of the killer app for Apple and for Google.

Mitch Lasky

#7. Actors: We have to remind ourselves that it's not about 'getting it right.' There is no 'right.' Your courage to bare your soul is what's right.

Gregor Collins

#8. You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Claus!

George S. Kaufman

#9. But one day solitude will make you weary, one day your pride will buckle and your courage gnash its teeth. One day you will cry, 'I am alone!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. He was munificent and liberal to outsiders, but a plunderer of his people, trusting strangers rather than his subjects. . . . [H]e was eventually deserted by his own men and in the end, little mourned.

Dan Jones

#11. I broke up with her to avoid getting into a serious relationship with her, and now it

Elle Kennedy

#12. Basically I'm always singing about the same stuff whether it's in a loud or quiet outfit.

Mark Lanegan

#13. He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.

Randy Pausch

#14. Love comes unseen; we only see it go.

Henry Austin Dobson

#15. God and Satan play poker with Tarot cards for the soul of an alcoholic sandwich-bag salesman obsessed with Bernini's 'The Ecstasy of St. Teresa.

David Foster Wallace

#16. Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.

Carine Roitfeld