Extravagant Quotes

152 Extravagant quotes by 133 unique authors

I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and… — Gina Gershon
My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me. — Jake Gyllenhaal
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental… — Charles Ives
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? — William Law
I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most… — Christian Louboutin
There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one… — Max Lucado
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage? — Imelda Marcos
Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large. — Marlee Matlin
I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director. — Harold Prince
My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant - I still go… — Jill Scott
I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary… — Taylor Swift
We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant. — Reese Witherspoon
As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have… — Rachel Zoe
There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so… — Annie Dillard
But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm. — Virginia Woolf
Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces… — Arundhati Roy
What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The… — Annie Dillard
The Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration.… — Marilynne Robinson
I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have… — Jane Austen
...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or… — Barbara Kingsolver
When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small? — Sue Monk Kidd
The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do.… — Marvin J. Ashton
The world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee;… — Annie Dillard
How long have I been here, what a question, I've often wondered. And often I could answer, An hour, a month, a year, a century,… — Samuel Beckett
Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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