Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred North Whitehead

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

Chris Martin

The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same.

Plutarch

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

Oscar Wilde

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

Imelda Marcos

Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.

Tanith Lee

Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

William Shenstone

A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

Willa Cather

Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.

Sallust

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

Charles Spurgeon

Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables

China Mieville

Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.

Bryce Courtenay

Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.

William Shakespeare

To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof little more than a little is by much too much.

Charlie Bewley

I don't really read too much. It really is counter to my energy. I can't sit down and concentrate on words.

Bill Russell

We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.

Edward Gorey

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

David Hockney

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.

Charles Stanley

If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'

John Ryding

The plunge in durable goods orders in January is entirely due to volatility in transportation. The underlying details of this report are much stronger than the headline.

Edward Gibbon

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

Mike Goodman

What we're seeing right now is most likely stage one, with other details to come in the near future.

Penny Junor

What makes life most difficult is the media intrusion, ... I think the public has gotten more and more greedy for the intimate details of their lives. These people are exposed to scrutiny 24 hours a day. We feel we have a right to know. We feel it's in the public interest. Even pop stars get more privacy. We just want to know every last detail. They are living in a goldfish bowl. And it never goes away.

Diane Ackerman

I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.

David Procopio

There are many details about this person and how she died that may be known only to her killer and little by little by us.

Alexandra Stoddard

The correct word is like any small detail - it enhances life.