Material Desire Quotes

I just love cars; I've been like that since I was a kid. It's an infatuation because we grew up poor. Cars was something we were always trying to get.

We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

I'm obsessed with shoes. I must have hundreds of pairs...That reminds me- I need to go shopping!

While other people were dreaming of big cars and houses, I just wanted a huge dressing room.

All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. In the first place it represents crass materialism. At the same time it represents a radical dissatisfaction because one quickly learns that the more one possesses, the more one wants, while deeper aspirations remain unsatisfied and perhaps even stifled.

...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end... Man, it occurs to me, is a joyful, buying-and-selling piece of work. I have been wrong, dead wrong, when I've decried consumerism. Consumerism is what we are. It is, in a sense, a holy impulse. A human being is someone who joyfully goes in pursuit of things, brings them home, then immediately starts planning how to get more.

My mama couldn't give me what I wanted. I had all right clothes, but the people I was with had better clothes. I felt that I had to have better clothes.

I totally cared - that I didn't have access to the money to get the coolest clothes ate away at me.

I say, 'If somebody steals something of yours, then it's good; he loves what you do.'

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.

I was introduced to money as a teenager, my friends had nice things. It came naturally to me to try and make money.

One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.

I'm a compulsive buyer. Anything beautiful I see I want. That's how we got the Waldorf Astoria. I told Conrad Hilton, 'I want the Waldorf,' and he bought it. The only problem was I divorced him before the escrow was finished.

The first thing I bought when I was 14 and started working was a crystal bear. I thought it was so glamorous and sparkly.