Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.

John Steinbeck

With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

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.

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.

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.

Marcel Proust

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

Joseph Addison

We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got footing among them.

George Bancroft

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

David Whyte

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

Henry Adams

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Helmut Newton

My women are always victorious.

John Adams

Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?

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.

Orson Scott Card

I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.

Robert Kiyosaki

If you want to be rich, don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses.

This is not like the submarines you see in the movies. It's really a luxury yacht that dives to 1,000 feet.

This is probably a more seasoned team. It's a luxury to have all the firepower we do.

Sophocles

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

I didn't want people to say: Stelios does everything on the cheap at work, and in private he lives in the lap of luxury. That's not me. I don't need those status symbols. I don't need a private jet either when I can go everywhere with Easy.

Vera Wang

Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.

Robert Musil

Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today.

Rob Machado

At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentawai Islands finding the most incredible waves. And yet the people on shore are suffering. The whole scene is wrong. As a surf community, we have to do something.

Roger Moore

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

Robert Shaw

In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill.

Robert Plant

There's no comparison between the most precious parts of one's personal life and success and wealth. If you lost someone near and dear to you, you can't relate it to any amount of fame, fortune and luxury. You just have to go on living.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!

Samuel Johnson

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.