#consume

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. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#consumed #dish #entertainment #food #forgotten

I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#choice #competition #consumers #direction #fair

Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#american #american consumers #billion #cannot #consumers

My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up. ↗

— Evan Davis

#bad #bad news #bunch #competition #consumers

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade. ↗

— Evan Davis

#components #consumer #exports #investment #main

It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here. ↗

— John Doerr

#consumers #do the right thing #does #fiji #get

I'm just like so many women - I was frustrated, I had these white pants that I had spent a lot of money on, and you get home and you think, 'What am I really supposed to wear under this?' So it was a frustrated consumer moment. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#consumer #frustrated #get #had #home

There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers. ↗

— Pete Domenici

#concerns #consumers #expense #growing #making

Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious. ↗

— Pete Domenici

#consumers #gasoline #gasoline prices #pocketbooks #prices

My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#brown #cake #come #comes #consumes