Luxury Quotes - Page 32

I was offered more work after the Oscar. When I was younger, I would take whatever I was offered because it was money and work and experience. In a way, choosing is the hard part. I know that's a luxury problem, but it's true. I try to go where passion takes me.

But, you see, that's the luxury of being a lout - you get to be selective about when you care and when you don't. The rest of us get stuck when your care goes shallow.

I'm very much in the trenches, and I don't live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-class military family. We watch the news and read the paper and vote, so there's always something to be upset about. I always have a certain amount of angst in my back pocket.

I still live in an apartment in Paris with my wife. No, we don't have a yacht, but we do have a house in Spain; that is my luxury.

For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle.

Not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays it’s often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize. Stillness is not just an indulgence for those with enough resources – it’s a necessity for anyone who wishes to gather less visible resources.

There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine.

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.

Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

Pain does not create a long-lasting memory, but the memory of luxury exerts itself for ever.

Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world.

I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.

Hell is being trapped in a night-club with the'beautiful people'and forced to live in a'luxury penthouse flat'.

It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity.

The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and status.

When you shoot a movie so quickly you can't really afford to shoot a bunch of extra footage because you don't have that luxury.

If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.

Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.

Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.

Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

And learn the luxury of doing good.

People who are overweight face discrimination. African-Americans face discrimination. Women face discrimination and sexism. So I don't have the luxury of not being tolerant of anyone.

I had success early on where I'm able to try to keep it fun, and I don't have to do things just for the sake of making a living, which a lot of my musician friends don't have that luxury of course.