Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change. — Vida Dutton Scudder Copy Share Image
Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision. — Joe Orton Copy Share Image
If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world. — Ruud van Nistelrooy Copy Share Image
Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle. — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility. — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It feels like being in a band is a luxury now: like you can only do it if you're signed really early… — Jamie Hince Copy Share Image
I want to spread the message in the U.S. that there are good philanthropists in China, and not all are crazy spenders… — Chen Guangbiao Copy Share Image
I think I'm just realizing what a huge luxury it is to be able to do whatever we want on television. — Miquita Oliver Copy Share Image
The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
While liberals appeared to be safely in power, feminists could perhaps afford the luxury of defining Larry Flynt or Roman Polanski as… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Diesel pioneered the idea of luxury denim, and we still drive this market. But it encompasses more: the consumers love the brand,… — Renzo Rosso Copy Share Image
“Do not buy finery or jewels, because books are worth more than they are. Adorn your understanding with their precious ideas, because… — Luisa Capetillo Copy Share Image
“...luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I do yoga every day, some sport, have a meal once a day, eat some fruit, and drink one glass of wine.… — Bidzina Ivanishvili Copy Share Image
I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Wrestling with work-life balance is a luxury when working to support a family is a necessity rather than a choice. I think… — Willow Bay Copy Share Image
“As the differences get smaller, the purely functional reasons for premium goods fade away, and instead they are purchased for the reason… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Im living as an artist, and thats a staggering feeling, its a total luxury. And because you have this amazing chance, with… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most important fact about our shopping malls, as distinct from the ordinary shopping centers where we go for our groceries, is… — Henry Fairlie Copy Share Image
If laying aside all worldly Greatness and Vain-Glory, I should be ask'd where I thought it was most probable that Men might… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image