Extravagant Quotes
152 Extravagant quotes by 133 unique authors
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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
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You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.
— Carlos Castaneda
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
— Thurgood Marshall
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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
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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
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The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
— Salvador Dali
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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
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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
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Arab states continue to send the Palestinians gifts of extravagant rhetoric and countless Arab League resolutions - but not much cash.
— Elliott Abrams
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Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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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
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Salutations to all, You can call me Cudi. Or Mr. Extravagant, cause I'm keepin' my money.
— Kid Cudi
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Extravagant Quotes
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