Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Burnett

One of the greatest freedoms of living in America is being able to ask the question: "If I could do anything I wanted with my life - money being no object - what would I do?" In many parts of the world, people don't have the luxury of asking that question.

Kimora Lee Simmons

I represent luxury, and that's what I love.

Michael Kors

For me, true luxury can be caviar or a day with no meetings, no appointments and no schedule.

Patricia Clarkson

But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

Plato

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Norman Borlaug

To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that the greatest danger to their perpetuity is the pressure of human population.

Mark Leibovich

I work for a big newspaper, and I guess I'm an insider. I don't have the luxury of calling myself a foreign correspondent and just swooping in and then leaving.

Michael Haneke

There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it.

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

Milton Friedman

Rich people are the experimental ground for every new development. The nature of progress is that what begins as a luxury for the rich becomes a necessity for the poor as it's developed and passed on.

Karen Walker

You never really know if it's going to happen or not do you but the vision was always for [Karen Walker] to be a global niche luxury product.

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

They are planning to offer a wide variety of boats, from personal watercraft up to a 38-foot luxury cruiser.

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

Henry Adams

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Helmut Newton

My women are always victorious.

David Whyte

The greatest luxury of having money should be not having to worry about it.

Emo Philips

I'm learning Cuban. It's like Spanish, but with fewer words for luxury items.

John Bright

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

John Armstrong

If from thy secret bed Of luxury unbidden offspring rise, Let them be kindly welcom'd to the day.

Giorgio Armani

From the elitism of luxury to the democracy of beauty.

Giorgio Armani

Luxury is obviously the direction that interests me the most, but there is a lot of confusion between luxury and exhibitionism. For me, the concept of luxury is more traditional, more exclusive, more sophisticated than luxury for the masses.

Harry S Truman

Too many?pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this luxury, are beginning to grow lazy and indifferent; the desire to have a death of one's own is becoming more and more rare. In a short time it will be as rare as a life of one's own.

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.

Gertrude Stein

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

James A. Baldwin

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

Isaac Disraeli

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

Jill Scott

I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don't have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say 'action.'

Jil Sander

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.