Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Geographically Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette from the CD to the digital download these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed but the very way artists created it.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases the goal is exchange.

As iron is eaten away by rust so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns their communities will be consumed.

One of the things in the back of my mind is that after my sports experience I never want to be totally consumed by any one endeavor other than my family life.

Happiness cannot be traveled to owned earned worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love grace and gratitude.

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

Death is the great hope of all life the desire to expend itself to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

I like to behave in an extremely normal wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence terror sex and death.

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill you're so consumed with that you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

During the 80s and 90s we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

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.

What the mass media offers is not popular art but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food forgotten and replaced by a new dish.

Most works of art like most wines ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

I hate to mention age but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.