Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carolina Herrera

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.

Ai Weiwei

Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.

Ai Weiwei

All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

Audre Lorde

For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.

Audre Lorde

Poetry is not a luxury.

Audre Lorde

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

Mike Maddux

We accomplished a lot. That's the luxury of throwing on the side. You can get things done.

Diego Della Valle

The boom for luxury goods is unending. There are people who never have to worry about whether they can afford something they like. In one part of the world or another there will always be someone with money to spend on luxury.

Dennis Lehane

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

Charles Dickens

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

Charles Spurgeon

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

Charles Spurgeon

If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.

Alanis Morissette

I want to walk through life.

Alan Watts

If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

Alan Rickman

I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

Alan Greenspan

Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.

Alan Bean

I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.

Alain Robert

I don't want to follow the herd.

Charles Spurgeon

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

C. L. R. James

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

Bruno Tonioli

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

Ai Weiwei

China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions.

Deborah Kerr

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Bernard Goldberg

A lot of so-called rich, according to this legislation, make $250,000. That's a lot of money, but it is not rich.

Cheryl Richardson

If beating ourselves up worked, we would all be thin, rich, and happy, wouldn't we?

Cheryl Strayed

Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

Charles Grodin

It seems there are no rich on death row.