If you're going to dedicate your career to ranting about the excesses of American capitalism, you probably shouldn't weigh 450 pounds. — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
“Give me excess of love, whatever it costs. We pay with our souls, and if we die with our souls intact we… — Louise Carey Copy Share Image
Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does. — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
According to Kim Jong-Il's biography, they say he has been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness and sexual excess. So if he lived… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me… — Heidi Murkoff Copy Share Image
After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Write on your doors the saying wise and old. "Be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Feeding a baby is like filling a hole with putty - you get it in and then you sort of shave off… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Now take all the delights of the earth, melt them into one single delight, and cast it entire into a single man… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I developed a deep, abiding fear of jeans, which I still have. I hold my breath and shut my eyes when I… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold,… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
“Intoxication, like sexual euphoria, is the privilege of the human animal. Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art...what we are talking about and the only way to know is… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Every relationship of domination, of exploitation, of oppression is by definition violent, whether or not the violence is expressed by drastic means.… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Copy Share Image
