Extravagant Quotes

152 Extravagant quotes by 133 unique authors

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted… — Isaac Newton
You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life. — Carlos Castaneda
Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery… — Elizabeth Gilbert
A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp. — Carson McCullers
After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down… — Annie Dillard
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and… — John Adams
You must remember always to give, of everything you have. You must give foolishly even. You must be extravagant. You must give to all who… — William Saroyan
I looked around at us all: me in my nightgown, Kiyo bare-chested, Dorian in his extravagant robes, and Tim in his Native getup. God, I… — Richelle Mead
We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite… — Michael Cunningham
The bread and the pastry, the cheeses and wine, and the sugar go into the Supper of the lamb because we do. It is our… — Robert Farrar Capon
She winced, knowing what was to come, "Calpurnia." She closed her eyes again, embarrassed by the extravagant name - a name with which no one… — Sarah MacLean
Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about poets and poetry… — Virginia Woolf
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. — Thurgood Marshall
It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of… — Theophile Gautier
Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It… — Thomas Mann
The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space. — Salvador Dali
In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception of the atomic… — Stewart Udall
A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects… — Julia Glass
Arab states continue to send the Palestinians gifts of extravagant rhetoric and countless Arab League resolutions - but not much cash. — Elliott Abrams
Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Relationships last a lifetime only when two people make a choice to keep it and work for it. Tell your partner you love them every… — Melchor Lim
Salutations to all, You can call me Cudi. Or Mr. Extravagant, cause I'm keepin' my money. — Kid Cudi
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are so extremely wise and useful that to a humane and… — John Adams
I love the feeling of having as close to a steady job as you can ever have as an actor. I'm not an extravagant spender,… — Jason Ritter

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