Famous Quotes & Sayings

James A. Baldwin

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore

George C. Scott

Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.

Christina Aguilera

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

Francis Bacon

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

Jeb Bush

America does not have the luxury of withdrawing from the world, our security, and our prosperity, and our values demand that we remain engaged and involved in -- often distant places.

George Eliot

In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

You don't buy luxury to enter a community, but to set yourself apart from others.

Chris Hardwick

A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.

Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.

Euripides

It makes little difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. It is but an empty glorification left for those who live.

Francis Ford Coppola

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

Jil Sander

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

Golda Meir

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Gideon Gono

Those who want luxury cars should buy them at market rates and not ... abuse public funds.

George Bernard Shaw

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

Joe Orton

Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breast-feeding, circumcision. I had to make my own way.

A year ago I had the luxury of being able to project 90 percent of our lineup in the off-season.

Nick Saban

That's not a luxury that we have right now in this particular draft.

That's (full roster) a luxury we haven't had in so long.

We go all year around because we have the luxury of ongoing harvests.

I'm not saying it should be a luxury hotel, but we should treat them as worthy of being a person.

Keith Walker

It's two teams who know nothing about each other. Here, we won't have the luxury of preparation.

It's something I didn't even think twice about. But I have the luxury because I own my own business.

In the past we have been primarily a running team, but this year we've had the luxury of being able to do some more things.

Ernestine Rose

there is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is in our midst; not because there is not enough, but owing to the misdirection of it.

Evan Sayet

Stupidity is a luxury and you will find time and time and time and again that those who are overwhelmingly on the left are those who can afford to be.

Glenn Beck

Has the luxury of not doing the political stuff, which is really where I want to be as a company.

H. Rap Brown

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

Jay Leno

In spite of the poor economy, almost 70 percent of Americans occasionally splurge on luxury items -- like a blanket on a plane, or a peanut.

Judith Butler

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

Joseph Joubert

All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.

Myles Munroe

You need to treat your finances as a resource God has provided to fulfill your vision, not a tool to fill your life with luxuries