Expensive Quotes

917 quotes by 780 authors

Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the… — John Quincy Adams
Redundancy is expensive but indispensable. — Jane Jacobs
You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War… — H.G. Wells
The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The… — Benjamin Graham
Most professionals specialize in only part of the complex community revitalization process. Incomplete efforts usually create messy, expensive, demoralizing failures. Few specialists understand how to… — Lindsey Davis
I think rock records tend to be very expensive. — Andy Summers
Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old… — Gary Neville
Time is the only luxury. It's the only thing you can't get back. If you lose your luggage - I'm not gonna say the obvious… — Kanye West
I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels… — Moby
Motorsport is very expensive. No one cares if you had a good season two years ago and then you have an injury. It is a… — SebastiAn
I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of… — Leo Kottke
I watched a film called 'Elephant' recently. Its not stylish in the sense of expensive suits and Italian cars, but the styling on every single… — Tinie Tempah
Much like tobacco companies want to keep smokers dependent on their deadly product, the oil industry wants to keep California dependent on oil â€“ an… — William Barrett
Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive. — Patricia Duncker
The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win. — Robert A. Heinlein
Every generation has its war. I have just been reminded of mine. It ended in 1989, 43 years after it began, the longest war Britain… — Simon Jenkins
In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world. — Allan Sherman
Notes are expensive... spend them wisely — B B King
There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading… — Camille Paglia
Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science. — Henry David Thoreau

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