Luxury Quotes - Page 36

If from thy secret bed Of luxury unbidden offspring rise, Let them be kindly welcom'd to the day.

Noble be man, helpful and good!

Heaven is totally overrated. It seems boring. Clouds, listening to people play the harp. It should be somewhere you can't wait to go, like a luxury hotel. Maybe blue skies and soft music were enough to keep people in line in the 17th century, but heaven has to step it up a bit. They're basically getting by because they only have to be better than hell.

The biggest difference for me is momentum. On a smaller film you get to shoot sometimes four or five scenes a day and you've got to do the tight schedule. I think I really feel the luxuries of a big budget film.

I didn't work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people can't.

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don't have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say 'action.'

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

I think the cynicism that you have when you've just gone through a break-up is a luxury that you allow yourself for a while.

They wouldn’t have believed me, and if they had they would have wanted me to explain. And I had no explanation, no answers. When you’re on a battleground, you don’t have the luxury of time to dwell on the various historical factors and sociopolitical influences that caused the war. You just keep your head down and try to survive it, to shove the pages back in the book, close the covers and pretend that nothing’s broken, nothing’s wrong.

Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!

As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don't need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things--though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart--and at the ranch, I could see, we have pretty much everything we'd need but precious little else.

The past is the luxury of proprietors.

The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression.

People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.

In spite of the poor economy, almost 70 percent of Americans occasionally splurge on luxury items -- like a blanket on a plane, or a peanut.

Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

Obviously, you want to get the best deal possible for yourself, but teams just don't want to spend that money for fear of being in the luxury tax.

Every day, possibly every hour as an entrepreneur, you do something that you absolutely could have done better with more time, more information, more experience, or more money - all luxuries you can't afford. So you do your best, and you move forward. The key is to see the forward momentum and not beat yourself up about how it could have been better.

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.

Most of us cannot afford to store a year's supply of luxury items, but find it more practical to store staples that might keep us from starving in case of emergency.

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore

Craft takes time, and therefore it is luxury. You cannot do an amazingly well-made garment without taking time—not just the time it takes to make something but also the time it took the maker to come up with the idea. That is all luxury, and that has been lost because were trying to make things faster and faster, cheaper and cheaper. The consumer tends to lose track of what luxury is.

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.