Like Disneyland, luxury retailers have long had to figure out how to overcome customers' natural inertia. Unlike less pricey stores, they tend… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I've had a great luxury in my career in that I became a very successful songwriter, which made it unnecessary for me… — Eric Carmen Copy Share Image
Yoga is my luxury workout. If I'm on vacation or I have a day off, I love a 90-minute yoga class. It's… — Alison Sweeney Copy Share Image
Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time.… — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image
But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
For Donald Trump's business partners around the world, including the developers of this luxury golf course in Dubai, what some in the… — Brian Ross Copy Share Image
To work hard and then loaf; to know hardship and then luxury, to learn about society and then color it with a… — Elliott Merrick Copy Share Image
We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Columbus and his men, they say, Conveyed the virus hither Whereby my features rot away And vital powers wither; Yet had they… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
“Was there any more repellent sight, Harriet wondered, than a silly, self-centred, greedy woman clad in the skin of a beast so… — Olivia Manning Copy Share Image
It's my privilege and honor to cook three meals a day for my family, and it's a luxury on a level that… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
“Looking out the rain-fogged window at the gray November day, Mary felt almost grateful for the snug warmth of her well-heated chamber.… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
“Pleasantly bustling shoppers streamed past us on Bond Street - smart-suited men and well-heeled women whose commitment to luxury goods glazed over… — Tyne O'Connell Copy Share Image
Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
America does not have the luxury of withdrawing from the world, our security, and our prosperity, and our values demand that we… — Jeb Bush 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
To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan… — B.o.B Copy Share Image
I'd like to see Alaska or cross the Atlantic. My father-in-law spent some years crewing luxury yachts from port to port for… — Phillip Schofield Copy Share Image
That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Both films and TV have their compunctions, their positives and negatives. For example, I explored a character at great length in 'Maryada'...… — Vishwajeet Pradhan Copy Share Image
Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn't necessary in a… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of… — Virginia Woolf 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
All projects are different, but you have to treat each one of them with care. Sometimes you get to build a luxury… — Stefan G. Bucher Copy Share Image
I'm not really a child of this '120 TV channels, a billion websites' era. I tried to live that for a long… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
Simple routine have a greater impact. It is not just to cut costs that we avoid luxury hotels. We do not need… — Ingvar Kamprad Copy Share Image
When you have a lot of money, there's so many places you can go to manage your money. But when you don't… — Alexa Von Tobel Copy Share Image
In TV, you get driven to work in a luxury car, and find flowers in your dressing room. Then suddenly you're on… — Lee Mack Copy Share Image
“When my son speaks of playing sports, I've always told him: playing on the team is great, but aspire to be the… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
A glamorous life is quite different to a life of luxury. I don’t need luxury. For years, I was practically broke but… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
